When Kendrick Lamar was revealed as the 2025 Super Bowl halftime headliner over the weekend, the announcement sparked some burning questions. On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie and Keith discuss these questions.
What will it perform? Should his booking be seen as an “anti-Drake” move after their heated rap battle last spring? And which special guests could join him on stage? He's got plenty of options, after all, considering his high-profile collaborations with everyone from Taylor Swift to Beyoncé. If Lamar entices Swift to perform her 2015 remix of “Bad Blood,” it would mark her first Super Bowl halftime performance, while it would mark Bey's third (headlining in 2013 and joining Coldplay in 2016) if appear for 2016. “Freedom.”
Listen to the entire podcast below:
Also on the show, we have news on how Sabrina Carpenter's Short N' Sweet spends a second week atop the Billboard 200 album chart and how Shaboozey's “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” just won't leave the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. Additionally, the nominations for the 2024 CMA Awards were announced Monday, and Beyoncé's album Cowboy Carter got zero nods. We talk through the reaction to her snub.
THE Bulletin board Pop Shop The Podcast is your one-stop shop for everything that appears on Billboard's weekly charts. You can always count on a lively discussion about the latest pop news, fun stats and chart stories, new music and guest interviews with music stars and people from the pop world. Casual pop fans and chart aficionados can hear Billboard's executive digital director, West Coast, Katie Atkinson and Billboard's managing director, charts and data operations, Keith Caulfield each week on the podcast, the which can be streamed on Billboard.com or download to apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast provider. (Click here to listen to the previous version of the show on Billboard.com.)
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