# Tate McRae, Olivia Rodrigo & Harry Styles: Which Pop Stars Won October 2026? (Greatest Pop Stars Podcast)

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/tate-mcrae-olivia-rodrigo-harry-styles-which-pop-stars-won-october-2026-greatest-pop-stars-podcast/
- Published: 2026-11-05T15:00:05+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T15:27:03+00:00
- Original publisher: Billboard
- Original article: https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/tate-mcrae-harry-styles-greatest-pop-stars-podcast-october-1236374718/
- Topics: Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Fashion

## Key points

- The podcast panel debated October’s biggest pop stars.
- Tate McRae, Olivia Rodrigo and Harry Styles featured in the discussion.
- The panellists also named artists to watch before year-end.

## Summary

The article introduces an October 2026 episode of the Greatest Pop Stars podcast, where host Andrew Unterberger and Billboard staffers Michael Saponara and Emily Fuentes debate which artists shaped the month. Their discussion comes as the year-end picture of pop stardom begins to take shape, with two months of 2026 still to go.

The panellists share their top five lists, honourable mentions and disappointments, and discuss artists to watch. Topics include Tate McRae’s album campaign, Taylor Swift’s bonus tracks, Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan’s remix, Harry Styles’ standing, Jay-Z and the Super Bowl, Dominic Fike’s pop-star prospects, and a Kelly Clarkson animatronic bird controversy.

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