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Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Be it ballet, dancing or cardio, fitness has played a vital part in the life of pop star Ana Laura Lopes since she was very young. Especially after her accident, weight training has helped her strengthen her knee. These picks boost both her workout and mood, setting the pace at the gym and her daily life. Because exercising is not just a necessity for better health—for Lopes, it’s a true pleasure.

To all the pop-music super-fans who want to hear hits early: We've got you. Our editors tirelessly search for songs that are poised to dominate the charts and plug them into this playlist every week. Add it to your library and listen long before they hit the radio.

“Hey Siri, play the Freshening Up playlist.”

Like the idea of the teenager, the definition of “teen pop” is always changing—just ask now-grown bobby-soxers, Beatlemaniacs, and Backstreet fans. But at its core, it’s always been synonymous with hooky songs that chronicled heartbreak, soundtracked dance crazes, and let adolescents blow off steam. The 2020s’ embrace of video-sharing sites accelerated the pace of teen pop’s evolution, with pop-punk and emo-rap just two of the styles that dominated trending charts. But the emotions expressed in song by the likes of Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, and Tate McRae are timeless.

Here’s a home for new tracks from some of the most familiar voices in pop. Easy stuff to add a little brightness to your day. Treat yourself. Our editors update picks here weekly, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

From uplifting anthems to heartrending ballads, here’s a playlist capturing the best of contemporary pop: bright, clean, fun, and familiar. Because it just feels good. We regularly update these tunes, so if you like something you hear, add it to your library.

“I feel like a song is so much more special when you can visualize and picture it, even smell and taste all of the stuff that the songwriter's going through,” Olivia Rodrigo told Apple Music days before the release of SOUR, her full-length debut. It feels safe to say that no single this year was quite as transportive or transcendent as “drivers license,” the breakup song that became a viral, closely studied sensation the moment Rodrigo quietly released it in January. Since then, it’s been The Year of Olivia in a lot of ways, the 18-year-old singer-songwriter (also an experienced actor and star of Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series) making her presence felt across pop culture, from the success of SOUR to an audience at the White House to the sound of the song's now legendary bridge bringing a barroom of tough guys to tears on Saturday Night Live. “All the feelings that I was feeling were so intense,” Rodrigo says. “I called the record SOUR because it was this really sour period of my life—I remember being so sad, and so insecure, and so angry. I felt all those things, and they're still very real, but I'm definitely not going through that as acutely as I used to. It’s nice to go back and see what I was feeling, and be like, ‘It all turned out all right. You're okay now.’”

A-List Pop is your weekly guide to what’s on top in pop music. Leading this week’s playlist is HUNTR/X’s Grammy-nominated hit song “Golden” from the Netflix animated film <i>KPop Demon Hunters</i> about a fictional Korean girl group that moonlights as demon hunters. The song serves as the film’s anthem and features vocals from Korean artists EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI, and the <i>KPop Demon Hunters</i> cast. Check back often, as our editors update this playlist regularly—and if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

The world's biggest hits all in one place. This playlist is refreshed regularly, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

There's no point denying it: Having your heart broken really, really sucks. Sometimes, during those moments, music is the only thing that can make sense of it all. So we've assembled a set of moving ballads, classic tearjerkers, and recent pop hits to help you through it. Our editors regularly refresh this playlist. If you like a song, add it to your library.