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 5 results:

MEEK - Fabulous 7

Melanie C - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 6

Sia - Fist Fighting a Sandstorm 4

Lauren Spencer Smith - Natural Disaster 3

Boy In Space - Who's Crying When I'm Leaving? 1

Cannons - Starlight 1

December 10 - Run My Way 1

LUNA - Away With the Fairies 1

Margaret - let you talk about it 1

MARIS - Body is on Fire 1

Grace VanderWaal - Prettier 0

Yaeger - Poseidon 0

Total votes: 26

A close battle between the top 2 for the win this week being tied for most of the week but MEEK just manages to beat Melanie C's What Could Possibly Go Wrong? with new single Fabulous. Sia's in third place with Fist Fighting a Sandstorm; celebrating the 10th anniversary of her album This Is Acting.

Week 6:

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:

Arwin - Glitter

Blusher - rager

Charlie Puth & Kenny G - Cry

Freya Skye - golden boy

Harvey Brittain - break your own heart

Magdalene - DJesus

Maisie Peters - My Regards

Mercer Henderson - Face Like Yours

Michael Aldag - Chase

MONSTA X - growing pains

Myles Smith & Niall Horan - Drive Safe

Whitney Whitney - A Man Written By a Woman

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

Week 5: MEEK - Fabulous

I'd probably say ZAYN tbh

STUNTS and SHENANIGANS that Arwin gets included this week but no A*Teens last week.

Maisie followed by Zayn.

It was between Maisie and Myles/Niall for me this week, but the latter just edged it - I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did.

Zayn will be in the R&B poll when it's up and running, I'd say it's more R&B than pop?

My personal rankings for Week 6;

1. Whitney Whitney – A Man Written By a Woman

2. Myles Smith & Niall Horan – Drive Safe

3. Freya Skye – golden boy

4. Mercer Henderson – Face Like Yours

5. Charlie Puth & Kenny G – Cry

6. Arwin – Glitter

7. MONSTA X – growing pains

8. Maisie Peters – My Regards

9. Michael Aldag – Chase

10. Magdalene – DJesus

11. Blusher – rager

12. Harvey Brittain – break your own heart

Bumping this for the last few hours in case anyone’s missed it!

1 Blusher

2 Michael Aldag

3 Freya Skye

4 Harvey Brittain

5 Whitney Whitney

6 Magdalene

7 Mercer Henderson

8 Arwin

9 Maisie Peters

10 Charlie Puth

11 Myles Smith

12 MONSTA X

Well the Blusher song was a banger but not a lot else to say here. I did like the production on the Michael Aldag song but not too sure about the vocals. 3-5 are all decent, didn't care for the rest. Why am I being tricked into listening to Melfest flop twinks xo I want to root for Myles Smith after his speech at the BRITs and his last single was a step in the right direction but he's right back into bland city with this one sadly.

edit: Calum bumping the thread right as I was posting anyway