{"id":2498438,"date":"2026-07-12T01:43:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2498438"},"modified":"2026-07-12T01:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:43:39","slug":"chart-watch-three-potential-summer-pop-stars-on-the-rise-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/chart-watch-three-potential-summer-pop-stars-on-the-rise-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart watch: Three potential summer pop stars on the rise : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"storytext\">\n<div id=\"resg-s1-132984\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10;        --source-width: 4492;&#10;        --source-height: 3369;&#10;    \">\n        <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4492x3369+0+0\/resize\/400\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F37%2F60%2Fcf58216b4defa047d7058e5c4d76%2Fhalle-jean-march.jpg 400w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4492x3369+0+0\/resize\/600\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F37%2F60%2Fcf58216b4defa047d7058e5c4d76%2Fhalle-jean-march.jpg 600w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4492x3369+0+0\/resize\/800\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F37%2F60%2Fcf58216b4defa047d7058e5c4d76%2Fhalle-jean-march.jpg 800w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4492x3369+0+0\/resize\/900\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F37%2F60%2Fcf58216b4defa047d7058e5c4d76%2Fhalle-jean-march.jpg 900w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4492x3369+0+0\/resize\/1200\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F37%2F60%2Fcf58216b4defa047d7058e5c4d76%2Fhalle-jean-march.jpg 1200w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4492x3369+0+0\/resize\/1600\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F37%2F60%2Fcf58216b4defa047d7058e5c4d76%2Fhalle-jean-march.jpg 1600w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4492x3369+0+0\/resize\/1800\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F37%2F60%2Fcf58216b4defa047d7058e5c4d76%2Fhalle-jean-march.jpg 1800w\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4492x3369+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F37%2F60%2Fcf58216b4defa047d7058e5c4d76%2Fhalle-jean-march.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1025px) 650px, calc(100vw - 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30px)\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/>\n        <\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>\n                Stella Lefty began releasing music in 2024. Her song &#8220;Boston,&#8221; built around a melody borrowed from Noah Kahan&#8217;s &#8220;Stick Season,&#8221; has been rising on the charts.<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Halle-Jean March<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><br \/>\n                <b class=\"hide-caption\"><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <b class=\"toggle-caption\"><br \/>\n              <svg class=\"icon icon--info\"><use href=\"#icon-info\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n              <b>toggle caption<\/b><br \/>\n            <\/b>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Halle-Jean March<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>For yet another week, the top of the pop charts feel familiar \u2014 country star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/g-s1-109803\/ella-langley\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Langley<\/a> holds at No. 1 with &#8220;Choosin&#8217; Texas,&#8221; while the K-pop boy band ATEEZ lands atop the albums chart yet again. But if you look just outside the top 10 on this week&#8217;s Hot 100, a few intriguing songs seem poised to crash the chart&#8217;s uppermost reaches.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">TOP STORY<\/h3>\n<p>The year&#8217;s biggest hit, &#8220;Choosin&#8217; Texas,&#8221; has held the <em>Billboard<\/em> Hot 100&#8217;s top spot for 12 nonconsecutive weeks. Every time a new sensation debuts at No. 1, &#8220;Choosin&#8217; Texas&#8221; waits in the wings, ready to pounce. But a few titles just below the top 10 suggest the imminent arrival of a few rising stars with room to grow.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap backstage\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"resg-s1-132983\" class=\"bucketwrap video youtube-video large\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stella Lefty - Boston (Live)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xh0GyxWgKPs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>                <b class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <b class=\"source\">YouTube<\/b><br \/>\n                <\/b>\n        <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>* At No. 13, Stella Lefty&#8217;s country-pop sleeper &#8220;Boston&#8221; hits a new peak this week. The song feels simple enough, with a hook lifted from the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/1219283275\/noah-kahan\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Noah Kahan<\/u><\/a> hit &#8220;Stick Season&#8221; \u2014 Kahan even gets a songwriting credit \u2014 but the song is a bright, summery mood-lifter in its own right. And, as Langley has shown, word-of-mouth country hits have a way of sticking around.<\/p>\n<p>* At No. 19, the rapper Yung Miami scores the highest-charting hit of her career, with her viral hit &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yynqCKDI7kQ\" target=\"_blank\">Spend Dat<\/a>.&#8221; Yung Miami has been floating around and charting for years, both solo and as half of the duo <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/now-playing\/2021\/07\/09\/1014712032\/city-girls-twerkulator\" target=\"_blank\"><u>City Girls<\/u><\/a>, and she&#8217;s collaborated on a chart single with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/1111800109\/latto\" target=\"_blank\">Latto<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/04\/09\/nx-s1-5313070\/lola-young-at-coachella\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Lola Young<\/u><\/a>, called &#8220;Don&#8217;t Play With It,&#8221; which hit No. 69 in 2023. No. 69 is nice and all, but &#8220;Spend Dat&#8221; has already proven to be Yung Miami&#8217;s biggest hit by a mile \u2014 it&#8217;s her first solo song to hit the top 40, let alone the top 20.<\/p>\n<p>* And at No. 22, the singer, songwriter and TikTok phenomenon Malcolm Todd hits a fresh career peak of his own, with a song from 2024 titled &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a4tdS3IB294\" target=\"_blank\">Earrings<\/a>.&#8221; Todd has been a chart mainstay for a few years now \u2014 his new album, <em>Do That Again<\/em>, recently debuted in the top five \u2014 but &#8220;Earrings&#8221; is his biggest hit yet.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-secondary-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap secondary\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<aside id=\"mid-story-recommendations-mount-piano\" class=\"mid-story-recommendations-mount-piano\" aria-label=\"recommended stories\"\/>\n<!-- END ID=\"MID-STORY-RECOMMENDATIONS-MOUNT-PIANO\" CLASS=\"MID-STORY-RECOMMENDATIONS-MOUNT-PIANO\" ARIA-LABEL=\"RECOMMENDED STORIES\" --><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still time this summer for Stella Lefty, Yung Miami, Malcolm Todd and others to crash the top 10. If they really want to dream big, &#8220;Choosin&#8217; Texas&#8221; can&#8217;t stay at No. 1 forever.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">TOP ALBUMS<\/h3>\n<p>For the past two weeks, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/998736720\/olivia-rodrigo\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a> has sat comfortably atop the <em>Billboard<\/em> 200 albums chart with her latest record, <em>you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love<\/em>. It&#8217;s already one of 2026&#8217;s biggest hits, and would have easily held on at No. 1 for a third week, were it not for the K-pop boy band ATEEZ.<\/p>\n<p>For those who aren&#8217;t familiar, ATEEZ ranks among K-pop&#8217;s kings of quantity: In just four years, the group has landed <em>nine<\/em> records in the top 10 \u2014 including the five-song EP <em>Golden Hour : Part.4<\/em>, which hit No. 3 back in February. Now, the group is back with <em>Golden Hour : Part.5<\/em>, which debuts at No. 1.<\/p>\n<p><em>Golden Hour : Part.5<\/em> sold 223,000 copies in its first week \u2014 a number that absolutely dwarfs its week-one streaming numbers \u2014 thanks in part to 30 different editions on CD and five different editions on vinyl. Because sales don&#8217;t usually carry over from week to week, it&#8217;s likely to be a short-timer where the charts are concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the new record gives the group bragging rights, and pop-music enthusiasts a new bit of trivia: ATEEZ is now the group with the most titles to chart in the top 10 during the 2020s so far. Given the prolificacy and popularity of the acts it&#8217;s just surpassed (namely <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/g-s1-39875\/stray-kids\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Stray Kids<\/u><\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/1214780899\/tomorrow-x-together\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Tomorrow x Together<\/u><\/a>), that is no easy feat.<\/p>\n<p>As with last week, when the entire top 10 sat motionless compared to the week before, there isn&#8217;t much action worth noting immediately below ATEEZ: Rodrigo slides to No. 2, Ella Langley&#8217;s <em>Dandelion<\/em> waits in the wings at No. 3. But for this week, <em>Golden Hour : Part.5<\/em> is your chart champ. It won&#8217;t be No. 1 for long, but you won&#8217;t likely have to wait long for another new ATEEZ title, either.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-third-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap third\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">TOP SONGS<\/h3>\n<p>The Hot 100 may look as if in the midst of the summer doldrums, as little changes from last week. But tell that to Ella Langley, who&#8217;s been 2026&#8217;s biggest breakout star by a mile. This week, she once again posts three songs in this week&#8217;s top 10: &#8220;Choosin&#8217; Texas&#8221; at No. 1, &#8220;Be Her&#8221; at No. 3 and &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Love You Anymore,&#8221; her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/963693317\/morgan-wallen\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Morgan Wallen<\/u><\/a> duet, at No. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Each summer, <em>Billboard<\/em> assembles a limited-term &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/summer-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Songs of the Summer<\/a>&#8221; chart, and &#8220;Choosin&#8217; Texas&#8221; has been the mainstay atop 2026&#8217;s entries; the song is virtually guaranteed to run away with the all-around title this year, much the way <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/g-s1-60448\/alex-warren\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Alex Warren<\/u><\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Ordinary&#8221; did in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Langley&#8217;s toughest competition, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/120581188\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;I Knew It, I Knew You&#8221; \u2014 which Swift wrote for Pixar&#8217;s <em>Toy Story 5<\/em> \u2014 holds at No. 2 for a second week after two weeks atop the Hot 100. It&#8217;s easy to imagine the two songs swapping places in the coming weeks, especially if Swift&#8217;s recent wedding gives her a chart bump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.npr.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stella Lefty began releasing music in 2024. Her song &#8220;Boston,&#8221; built around a melody borrowed from Noah Kahan&#8217;s &#8220;Stick Season,&#8221; has been rising on the charts. 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