Side A
Pop
Charts, campaigns, and the main-stage machine.
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Brooklin Rich Takes the Long Way Round
Five singles in a year, most of them past the five-minute mark, all on his own imprint. The Las Vegas singer is building a catalog that refuses to hurry.
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Tina Win Keeps It Under Three Minutes
Five songs, fourteen minutes, her own company on the copyright line. The She Knows EP is a tight, self-owned statement from a pop artist who came to music from the magazine world.
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Benjamin Elgar Wants Every Song to Be an Event
Four self-released singles, a Bhad Bhabie collaboration he directed the video for, and a ten-track debut that runs under half an hour. The Los Angeles pop singer is building the old way, one visual at a time.
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Daniel Arison Writes the Song Where He's the Problem
The Miami singer-songwriter built his first EP around a confession, then kept rewriting it: a Leah Kate remix, an acoustic take, a dance version. Now a run of 2026 singles is pointing somewhere sadder and smaller.
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Hemlocke Springs Wrote Her Way Out of the Bubble
The TikTok-era bedroom-pop oddball made a debut album about leaving a strict upbringing behind, and it sounds like an artist who has finally been handed the whole stage.
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The Rollout Is the Album Now
Somewhere between a lime-green wall in Brooklyn and a three-hour stadium retrospective, the campaign stopped promoting the record and became part of the text.
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The Theater Kids Won
Pop's center of gravity has moved from the recording booth to the stage — and the new superstars are the ones who treat every appearance like opening night.