Billboard offers its picks for the greatest pop star one-year wonders -- the pop stars whose period of dominance lasted just ...

This Greatest Pop Stars Sidebar looks at the greatest pop stars who were never quite great enough to be our No. 1 for a full ...

In this sidebar to our Greatest Pop Stars by Year article series, we look at the 10 greatest years in the history of modern ...

The all-time pop legend made her official solo break in world-stopping fashion.

*NSYNC were the biggest act at TRL's turn-of-the-century peak, setting new sales records and pushing pop into the 21st ...

Drake is Billboard's Greatest Pop Star of 2018 for how he reigned over music at a time when hip-hop was fully taking over.

This Greatest Pop Stars Sidebar looks at Lorde and how her stripped-down "Royals" changed the direction of pop music in the ...

This sidebar to Billboard's Greatest Pop Series looks at how dancehall's second wave made a huge and long-lasting impact on ...

Janet Jackson is Billboard's Greatest Pop Star of 1993 for how the she evolved and matured her sound and image to fit with ...

Katy Perry exemplified top 40's biggest and best at the dawn of a golden age of pop music.

Riding a decade of slowly building momentum, Lil Wayne took his turn in the mainsteram spotlight in 2008 with the year's ...