January Radio: Top Pop Music 2026

A crowd of people at a concert with their hands in the air

basically all republic/UMG artists then Tate, Sombr, Benson Boone...as much as I love new music, feels almost like a monopoly maybe? where is the Sony loveee

Out of all these artists only Olivia Dean and Alex Warren are arena touring I think, not counting festivals
ohhh jk Sombr is touring Europe then a handful of festivals. 

TAYLOR SWIFT

SABRINA CARPENTER

OLIVIA DEAN

HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA...

ALEX WARREN

BENSON BOONE

SOMBR

JUSTIN BIEBER

CHAPPELL ROAN

TATE MCRAE



Sabrina should be headlining Coachella , Bieber will be headlining Coachella too and Chappell is doing a handful of festivals in the next couple of months. 

Republic

Island/Republic

Atlantic

Warner

Night Street/Warner

RCA

Interscope/ICLG

Def Jam/Republic

XO/Republic

Human Re/The Orchard


***UMG super dominating, then RCA and The Orchard for Sony and Warner with Atlantic, where's the Sony love??

HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA...

Golden

2025 June

OLIVIA DEAN

Man I Need

2025 September

TAYLOR SWIFT

The Fate Of Ophelia

2025 October 

SOMBR

Back To Friends

2024 December

TAYLOR SWIFT

Opalite

2025 October 

ALEX WARREN

Ordinary

2024 September

JUSTIN BIEBER

YUKON

2025 July

RAYE

WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!

2025 September 

SABRINA CARPENTER

When Did You Get Hot?

2025 August 

CHAPPELL ROAN

Pink Pony Club

2022 April


***super UMG dominated except sombr, Alex Warren, and Raye.... but also these are last years, songs, what will dominate this year? who will have the song of the summer??