The charts have been an absolute rollercoaster this year, haven’t they? From Charli XCX’s complete and utter dominance (we always knew she had it in her) to Sabrina Carpenter’s meteoric rise from Disney alum to proper pop powerhouse, 2024 has been the year that pop music decided to get really, properly interesting again. Our Chart Attack podcast is diving into all of it – the viral moments that weren’t just TikTok nonsense, the surprise bangers that had us questioning what decade we’re living in, and yes, even those rare occasions when the boys actually showed up with something worth talking about.

Catch the special New Year’s Eve edition of Chart Attack on Dork Radio at 6pm GMT this Sunday – you can tune in via the Dork Radio app (iOS/Android), at readdork.com/radio, or through TuneIn. Can’t wait that long? The entire first season is available right now on all major podcast platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Join hosts Abigail Firth and Martyn Young as they make sense of twelve months that rewrote the pop rulebook entirely. We’re not saying it’s essential listening, but also we absolutely are. 

In a gloriously on-brand chat with Cosmopolitan, indie darling Beabadoobee has come out swinging for the beauty of imperfection in music. Our favourite bedroom pop hero turned guitar-wielding superstar compared overly polished songs to dodgy cosmetic surgery (iconic), declaring that the real magic happens in the moments where things get a bit wonky. “Maybe this word doesn’t make sense next to this one, but that’s how I speak,” she explained, basically writing the manifesto for keeping it real in 2024.

Bea’s currently riding high off the success of her third album ‘This Is How Tomorrow Moves’, bringing those perfectly imperfect tunes to BST Hyde Park next summer, where she’ll be supporting Sabrina Carpenter.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has revealed she’s absolutely smashed it this year with a whopping 110 live shows. Speaking on BBC Breakfast ahead of her New Year’s Eve spectacular, our disco queen confirmed what we already suspected – that Barry Keoghan’s naked Saltburn shimmy has propelled her into the kind of year usually reserved for pop stars half her age (though they wish they had half her charm).

You can catch Sophie bringing in 2025 with maximum sparkle on BBC One and iPlayer tonight at 11:30pm, where she’ll be hosting what promises to be the ultimate New Year’s party. Her recent single ‘Freedom Of The Night’ is out now, and if you’re feeling particularly organised about 2025 already, you can grab tickets for her upcoming UK headline tour.

Pop sensation and certified chaos merchant Sabrina Carpenter is taking her next logical career step by… *checks notes*… launching her very own coffee drink at Dunkin’.

The ‘Nonsense’ hitmaker has partnered with the American coffee giant to create the Sabrina Carpenter Brown Sugar Shakin’ Espresso, a properly fancy concoction featuring oat milk and brown sugar that sounds like it could fuel an entire stadium tour’s worth of high notes.

The drink launches in the US today (New Year’s Eve), just in time for everyone’s caffeine-fuelled resolution making, and comes with a swish advertising campaign directed by Dave Meyers (aka the chap behind roughly 73% of your favourite music videos) and produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s company. Speaking of tours, you can catch a potentially very caffeinated Sabrina when she brings her emails i can’t send tour to our shores this March, hitting Dublin’s 3Arena (3rd), Birmingham’s Utilita Arena (5th), London’s O2 (7th), and Manchester’s AO Arena (8th).

Pop’s most exciting maximalist Chappell Roan has blessed us with a delightfully on-brand year-end roundup, ranking her top 10 “iconique” looks of 2024 via Instagram.

Taking the crown is her absolutely bonkers Governors Ball ensemble, where she emerged as a spliff-wielding Statue of Liberty inside an actual big apple (as one does), while other highlights include her pig-nosed ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ single artwork and a lipstick-smeared pink prom dress moment for NPR’s Tiny Desk that made us want to immediately befriend her.

The breakout star is set for an even bigger 2025, with six Grammy nominations under her belt including Best New Artist and Album of the Year for ‘The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess’. She’s also promised some controversy in her acceptance speech (fingers crossed), and will be headlining Reading & Leeds alongside Travis Scott, Bring Me The Horizon and Hozier – where we fully expect at least 17 more outrageous costume changes.