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\n\tThis podcast episode is part of the <\/em>Billboard editorial staff\u2019s Greatest Pop Stars of 2025 list. Find our accompanying Tyler essay here<\/a>, and all the rest of our essays and podcasts related to the list here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tTyler, The Creator<\/a> had a big enough 2024 to end up an honorable mention on our Greatest Pop Stars Honorable Mentions list that year, with his October release Chromakopia<\/em> landing the best first-week numbers of his career and spawning multiple top 10 Hot 100 hits, including his first long-lasting rap radio hit \u201cSticky.\u201d But rather than spend 2025 basking in the afterglow of that success, Tyler just kept pushing forward last year, with a dancefloor-oriented semi-surprise new album, one of the year\u2019s biggest tours and even a feature film debut in one of the year\u2019s biggest movies. <\/p>\n \n\tThis Greatest Pop Stars of 2025 episode of the\u00a0Greatest Pop Stars<\/em>\u00a0podcast<\/a>\u00a0looks at how Tyler, The Creator ended up at No. 10 on our list \u2014\u00a0his first time making the top 10 \u2014\u00a0thanks to an impressively full year where he really decided to just go for it. (You can\u00a0find Eric Renner Brown\u2019s essay on Tyler\u2019s full-speed-ahead season\u00a0here<\/a>.) Kyle Denis joins host Andrew Unterberger to relive the surprisingly robust glories of his 2025, and explain how he really proved his pop star mettle by seizing the momentum and the moment and continuing to scale new heights as one of the defining artists of his generation. <\/p>\n \n\tWhile doing so, we ask all the most pressing questions about Tyler\u2019s 2025: Can we actually hear Lola Young on \u201cLike Him\u201d? Could we have maybe used a couple more obvious dance songs on Don\u2019t Tap the Glass<\/em>? How exactly did that album end up in the alternative category at the Grammys? Were we able to separate Tyler from his cabbie character in Marty Supreme<\/em>? What pop collaborator should he team up with in 2026? And perhaps most importantly: Is there any<\/em> pop star whose career we\u2019d rather have right now than Tyler, The Creator\u2019s?<\/p>\n