MOIO (Moyo Mobolaji) is a Nigerian-Irish singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer from Dublin whose 2023 single 'Moments' went viral in late 2024 - racking up 19M+ Spotify streams and hitting #1 on Spotify's Viral 50 in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Norway, Denmark, and New Zealand. His debut EP 'Earthday' (October 2025) announced him as one of Ireland's most compelling new artists, blending R&B warmth with indie introspection and self-produced bedroom-pop textures. A co-founder of the Chamomile Club collective in Dublin, he now performs internationally and is signed to Republic Records.
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is the best-selling Latin female artist of all time, a Colombian-Lebanese singer-songwriter who has sold 100+ million records worldwide across a 30-year career. In her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran era (2024), she transformed a very public split from footballer Gerard Piqué into a global cultural phenomenon - breaking Guinness World Records with her Bizarrap session, sweeping the Latin Grammys, winning the MTV Video Vanguard Award, and releasing her most commercially and critically successful album in years. She writes her own music, speaks six languages, holds an IQ of 140, and runs a foundation that has educated thousands of Colombian children.
Ozuna (Juan Carlos Ozuna Rosado) is Puerto Rico's reigning melodic reggaeton king — the artist who spent more consecutive weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums than any male in history, held four Guinness World Records simultaneously, and became the most-viewed artist on YouTube globally in 2018. Raised by his grandmother above a San Juan bodega after losing his father at age three, he turned hardship into a sonic empire spanning seven studio albums, 23+ million Instagram followers, and collaborations with Cardi B, Selena Gomez, DJ Snake, and Rosalía. His smooth melodic tenor and genre-fluid approach — blending reggaeton, melodic trap, Afrobeats, and Latin pop — have made him a defining voice of the streaming era.
Post Malone (born Austin Richard Post) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for pioneering a genre-less sound that fuses hip-hop, pop, rock, country, and R&B. Rising to fame with his 2015 debut single 'White Iverson,' he has become one of the best-selling digital artists of all time, with six studio albums, nine Diamond-certified songs, and six Billboard Hot 100 number-ones. His 2024 country album F-1 Trillion debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and featured collaborations with Tim McGraw, Morgan Wallen, Dolly Parton, Luke Combs, Chris Stapleton, and others, cementing his cross-genre appeal.
Sabrina Carpenter is an American singer-songwriter and actress who transformed from a Disney Channel kid into one of pop's sharpest wits. Her 2024 album Short n' Sweet debuted at #1 in 18 countries and yielded global smashes 'Espresso' and 'Please Please Please,' earning two Grammy Awards. Known for confessional lyricism wrapped in bubblegum-pop hooks, she headlined Coachella 2026, released her seventh album Man's Best Friend to another Billboard 200 #1, and remains one of the defining pop voices of her generation.
Reneé Rapp is a 26-year-old actress and singer-songwriter from North Carolina who rocketed from high school theater champion to Broadway's Regina George to pop music headliner - all before most people her age have a LinkedIn. She won the Jimmy Awards at 18, debuted on Broadway in Mean Girls a year later, built a cult following as Leighton Murray on HBO Max's The Sex Lives of College Girls, reprised Regina George in the 2024 film musical that grossed $101M worldwide, and has since released two critically acclaimed albums (Snow Angel and BITE ME) while selling out arenas on the Bite Me Tour. Known for radical candor, zero media training, and a goose-like live performance ad-lib that became a fan religion.
Rosé (Park Chae-young) is a New Zealand-born, Australian-raised South Korean singer-songwriter and main vocalist of BLACKPINK, one of the world's best-selling girl groups. Her 2024 collaboration 'APT.' with Bruno Mars became the best-selling global single of 2025 per IFPI, making her the first K-pop artist nominated for Grammy Record of the Year and Song of the Year, the first to win a Brit Award, and the first female K-pop act to crack the US Billboard Hot 100 top 3. Signed to The Black Label and Atlantic Records for her solo career, Rosé is simultaneously the most-followed K-pop solo artist on Instagram and a global fashion icon as YSL's first-ever global brand ambassador.
Taylor Alison Swift is the most-streamed artist in Spotify history with 118B+ lifetime streams and the only musician to win the Grammy Album of the Year four times. Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania on December 13, 1989, she parlayed a childhood on a Christmas tree farm and an opera-singer grandmother's DNA into a genre-defying career spanning country, synth-pop, indie folk, and art-rock. Her record-breaking Eras Tour grossed ~$2 billion - the first concert tour in history to cross $1 billion - and her 2025 album The Life of a Showgirl broke all-time first-week sales records with 4.002 million units. In 2025, she finally bought back her first six albums' masters for ~$360 million, closed out a long fight with her former label, and got engaged to NFL superstar Travis Kelce. As of 2026, she's a billionaire, a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, and the IFPI Global Artist of the Year for a record sixth time.
Teddy Swims (born Jaten Collin Dimsdale) is a Georgia-raised soul-pop singer whose tattooed exterior and raw emotional delivery mask a voice that sounds like it was forged in a Pentecostal church and tempered by decades of Marvin Gaye records. After years in Atlanta metalcore bands and a viral YouTube cover career, he signed with Warner Records in 2019 and spent the next few years quietly building toward an explosion - 'Lose Control' (2023) became the #1 song in America for 2024, spent 112 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, earned Diamond certification in four countries, and accumulated 1.7 billion streams. His debut album project 'I've Tried Everything but Therapy' (Parts 1 & 2) earned Grammy nominations and festival headlining slots worldwide, cementing him as one of the defining voices of mid-2020s soul-pop.
Tems (Temilade Openiyi) is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and producer from Lagos who built a two-Grammy career on a contralto voice she once tried to hide. Self-taught on production via YouTube, she went from quitting a digital marketing job in 2018 to becoming the first African female artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the first Nigerian female Grammy winner, and a co-owner of an MLS soccer team — all while redefining what Afro-fusion sounds like on a global stage.
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, known as The Weeknd, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor who transformed R&B from the shadows of a Scarborough upbringing into a global phenomenon. With 75+ million records sold, a billion-dollar touring empire, and the most-streamed song in Spotify history, he is redefining what a career exit looks like — retiring the Weeknd persona after his 2025 album and film 'Hurry Up Tomorrow', the closing chapter of a dark pop trilogy, to begin again as Abel Tesfaye.
TSO (Anastasios Tsordas) is Athens-based Greek hyperpop artist, songwriter, and producer whose debut album KINI YI (January 2026) blends Lady Gaga-era hedonism with Orthodox church melodies, heavy autotune, and future-facing club electronics. A prolific behind-the-scenes force — co-writing Marina Satti's genre-crossing POP TOO and tracks for Tamta and Yianna Terzi — TSO is now stepping fully into the spotlight as a next-generation Greek popstar. Dazed Digital named him one of 10 Musicians to Watch in 2026.
Tyla (born Tyla Laura Seethal, January 30, 2002) is a South African singer-songwriter who made history when her debut single 'Water' became the first-ever Grammy Award-winning Best African Music Performance in 2024. Blending amapiano, pop, and R&B into a genre she calls 'Popiano,' Tyla broke onto the global stage at 21, charting higher on the US Billboard Hot 100 than any African female soloist in history. By 24, she had two Grammy wins, a platinum-certified self-titled debut album, and a highly anticipated second album A*POP on the horizon — cementing her as the defining voice of Africa's pop moment.