Blog: Idolator

We're jump-starting 2012 with a brand new feature. Check out our new Pop & Fizz chart, where we rank the top artists and headlines in pop music. Now you'll know exactly who reigns the pop kingdom from week to week, according to our laboratory-developed research methods and sophisticated calculations. Here's how it works: we rank each artist or major news story according to their size (that's Rank ) and then we weigh how they're faring overall in the pop zeitgeist (that's Hype ). That's why, for example, Katy Perry — who didn't [...]