Billboard ranks all 16 tracks on Tinashe’s eighth studio album, *POPSTAR*, presenting the record as a confident challenge to narrow ideas about who can be a mainstream pop star. The album foregrounds Black musical influences while drawing on diverse pop traditions, positioning Tinashe as an artist redefining the genre on her own terms.

Released on 25 September through Nice Life, Atlantic and Tinashe Music, the 40-minute album follows 2024’s *Quantum Baby* and includes sounds ranging from hyperpop and R&B to dance, jazz, new age, bedroom pop and country. The review highlights its sequencing, catchy hooks and introspective writing, while noting Tinashe’s recent chart momentum with “Nasty” and “No Broke Boys”; the ranking begins with the 19-second interlude “The Show Must Go On”.