It’s been a big year for pop. In the absence of true, new stars, big acts have only gotten bigger, and the walls traditionally dividing cool from crass have melted away as genres mash together and artists transcend age and generational confines to rock it shoulder to shoulder on the world’s myriad actual and virtual musical stages.
Here, month by month, is all the goodness that you should have been all over, all through 2023.
