she mad ye above him probably

everyone else is understandably above him

The last line is exactly what a popstar is lmaooo

Hits, albums, tours, performances, videos... the whole package

Rihanna only has big hits and like 2 big albums out of 8 that she dropped

Her perfomances are not memorable and she never had a big tour. In fact, the Anti tour had empty stadiums

She was just a big hitmaker

#1 gonna be taylor i want everyone to avoid disappointment now

shifting the goalposts is so crazy ngl

And we must also issue our obligatory reminder that unlike with our Year-End Charts, these Greatest Pop Stars are NOT mathematically determined by stats like chart position, streams or sales numbers. Those play a big part in our final rankings, of course — you can’t be one of the greatest pop stars of the century without great pop hits and great pop albums — but so do things like music videos, live performances and social media presence, and more intangible factors like cultural importance, industry influence and overall omnipresence. (And we’re measuring this over all 25 years of this century so far, so if you were only heard from at the beginning or the end of that period — or only had one or two big songs, albums or eras — that’s gonna significantly hinder your ranking here as well.)

Rihanna is not even the biggest hitmaker of the century, so she wouldn't be #1 either way

them boys from One Direction after him, that's it

Shawn Mendes didn't quite get to that level of heartthrob but he was close

Idk number 8 for someone who more or less retired from pop stardom after only 12 years isn’t bad lol.

Taylor has it all.

Classic albums? Oh at least 3.
Evergreen smash hits? A few yes.

Pop culture relevance? Yes yes yes.

Controversy? Yes

Tours? Only the biggest of the world.

💋

They put Taylor at #2

#2?? Burn that bilboard building to the ground!

erm...

lollllllllllllll

Taylor lost

CLOCK IT

AHHHH

Justice for Robyn Fenty...

twitter finna be a warzone

the jay z conspiracy theories already starting