Welcome to Pop Track of the Week 2026!

Each week, new releases from the worlds of pop and country are selected to go head to head, with one weekly winner. The winners will then go up against future weekly winners later in the year - at the end of each quarter and again at the end of the year - to determine the ultimate winner of 2026.

Week 4 results:

Harry Styles - Aperture 9

Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody 6

Jessie Ware - I Could Get Used to This 6

Loreen - Feels Like Heaven 3

Ella Boh - iNSOMNiAC 1

Louis Tomlinson - Imposter 1

XG - HYPNOTIZE 1

Britton - PAPERCUT 0

girli - Slap on the Wrist 0

Kamal. - how the f*** does everybody else manage? 0

LEGZDINA - RIBBON 0

Naomi Scott - Losing You 0

Total votes: 27

Harry Styles takes the top spot this week with 9 votes. He returns with Aperture, the lead single from his upcoming fourth solo album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. New releases from Holly Humberstone and Jessie Ware aren't too far behind him though in joint second place with 6 votes each.

Week 5:

Choose one song that is your favourite from the selection of new releases this week. Feel free to post a rate of the songs in the thread.

Here are this week's contenders:

Boy In Space - Who’s Crying When I’m Leaving?

Cannons - Starlight

December 10 - Run My Way

Grace VanderWaal - Prettier

Lauren Spencer Smith - Natural Disaster

LUNA - Away With the Fairies

Margaret - let you talk about it

MARIS - Body is on Fire

MEEK - Fabulous

Melanie C - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Sia - Fist Fighting a Sandstorm

Yaeger - Poseidon

Results of this week's poll will be revealed in next week's thread. The poll will remain open until 04:59 on Friday!

Pop Track of the Week 2026: Winners

Week 1: Sabrina Carpenter - Such a Funny Way

Week 2: Robyn - Talk to Me

Week 3: Slayyyter - DANCE...

Week 4: Harry Styles - Aperture

Hey @Calum would you accept this addition for this week at all?

Edit...

And... being cheeky I know, but there is a thread for this pop song too;

Given there’s no Rogue Traders I’ve gone with the Sia song, even if it’s 10 years old and from the US edition of This Is Acting.

Didn't even realise there was a new Sia song, haven't heard of that anywhere was just about to vote for Mel C but I'll have to give Sia a listen first!

Edited January 31Jan 31 by Mangø

It's Meek for me.

Won’t be making any changes to the poll, sorry to disappoint x

Melanie C's new Swedish produced bop wins this

Boy In Space making it in

I’ve been obsessed with “Fabulous” by Meek since she played a snippet on TikToK last year. Didn’t think it was ever gonna arrive, and here it is! What a tune! Hope this is a big hit for her.

LUNA has my favourite of these

Mel C for me

My personal rankings for Week 5;

1. Sia – Fist Fighting a Sandstorm

2. MARIS – Body Is On Fire

3. LUNA – Away With The Fairies

4. Yaeger – Poseidon

5. MEEK – Fabulous

6. December 10 – Run My Way

7. Melanie C – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

8. Cannons – Starlight

9. Margaret – let you talk about it

10. Grace VanderWaal – Prettier

11. Boy In Space – Who’s Crying When I’m Leaving?

12. Lauren Spencer Smith – Natural Disaster

No A*Teens!!!!!

Cancel the poll

1 MARIS

2 Cannons

3 Yaeger

4 Margaret

5 December 10

6 LUNA

7 Boy In Space

8 Melanie C

9 Grace VanderWaal

10 Sia

11 Lauren Spencer Smith

12 MEEK

Has a couple of mildly screechy vocal moments but the core tune of the MARIS track is strong enough for me to bop to it (she knows her way around a catchy tune, liking this song slightly more than her BJSC entries), the Cannons song is also a solid tune if not particularly original. Yaeger's song has a cool vibe to it but not much of a hook really. Margaret was a decent enough lite bop. The whole concept of December 10 is pretty cringe but the song itself is better than I expected I suppose, at least has a pulse to it. 6-7 both fine, 8-9 just went in one ear and out the other, the Sia song definitely could have just stayed in the vault (very repetitive), the Lauren song at least sounds like a song and not a PSA which makes it slightly better than her chart hits I guess but I've never been a fan of her voice and melodrama. That MEEK thing is some cringe that I hope has now generated enough attention that we can not have it show up in BJSC x

(lol none of the songs that I even sort of liked getting more than 1 vote )