Welcome to the latest episode of the Billboard.com Pop Shop Podcast, Billboard’s weekly half-hour audio breakdown of the Billboard charts, hottest music news and year’s biggest musical events. Casual pop fans and chart junkies can hear Billboard.com associate editor Jason Lipshutz and Billboard associate director of charts Keith Caulfield every Thursday on the free Pop Shop Podcast, which can be streamed on Billboard.com or downloaded in iTunes (click here to listen to the previous episode).
Bea Miller stops by the Pop Shop Podcast this week to talk about her upcoming debut album, summer tour with Fifth Harmony, social media and much more. The guys also discuss Taylor Swift‘s “Bad Blood” rocketing to No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart, and Swift’s amazing singles run; Nicki Minaj entering the top 10 on David Guetta‘s “Hey Mama” and the top 40 with her Beyonce collaboration “Feeling Myself”; new Hot 100 entries from Pitbull, Luke Bryan and Jessie J; Twenty One Pilots scoring a No. 1 album debut, and A$AP Rocky gunning for No. 1 next week. There’s also a lot of Keith goofiness, Rugrats, summer movies, Flashdance and much more.
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