Audacious, authentic and wielding a transparent imaginative and prescient, the celebrities who rose to the highest in 2024 pushed boundaries and made daring, even dangerous, selections. Here are 10 artists who shook up their scenes and resonated with followers this 12 months.
Pop Music
Chappell Roan
It’s nearly incomprehensible to suppose that final 12 months, Chappell Roan nonetheless had time to work as a camp counselor.
It’s not that she hadn’t been pursuing pop. Her debut album, “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,” was launched in 2023. One of its now-hit singles “Pink Pony Club” was launched again in 2020.
But it was this 12 months that every one the items coalesced: Her album hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart and No. 1 in album gross sales; her extravagant drag-inspired persona, Eighties-influenced pop sound, hovering vocals and edgy performances have develop into wildly viral; she outgrew her tour plans; and her dance-along anthem “Hot to Go!” was even featured in a Target advert and performed at sporting occasions.
All the whereas, her lyrics sort out queer points frankly. Her observe “Good Luck, Babe!” — a few relationship between two ladies that collapses as a result of one is, as Roan has put it, “denying destiny” — was one of many largest hits of the summer season.
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