2026 Pop Predictions: big beat, animated avatars, and Bruno Mars

It’s a brand new year, and what better way to ring it in than with the second annual Switched On Pop bingo? Like last year, Charlie, Nate, and Reanna polish their crystal balls and play Popstradamus, each throwing out eight outlandish pop predictions for the coming months. This time, there’s piano ballads, cover songs, and what Charlie calls the impending “death of auto-tune.”

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Songs discussed:

The Prodigy – Firestarter

The Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin’ Beats

Basement Jaxx – Jump ’N Shout

Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank

Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars – Die With A Smile

Benson Boone – Beautiful Things

Post Malone, Ozzy Osbourne, Travis Scott – Take What You Want

LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge

Anamanaguchi, Hatsune Miku – Miku

Crazy Frog – Axel F

Hampton The Hamster – Hampsters Get the Blues

K/DA – POP/STARS

Madison Beer – make you mine

Forrest Frank – YOUR WAY’S BETTER

Tate McRae – Sports car

Tata Taktumi, Timbaland – Pulse x Glitch

PARTYNEXTDOOR, Drake, Yebba – DIE TRYING

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Impression That I Get

Maddox Batson – Tears In The River

JAY-Z – D.O.A. (Death Of Autotune)

Adele – Someone Like You

Bruno Mars – When I Was Your Man

Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved

Rihanna, Mikky Ekko – Stay

Baauer – Harlem Shake

Billie Eilish – bury a friend

This Is Lorelei, MJ Lenderman – Dancing in the Club – MJ Lenderman Version

WITCH – Once In A Lifetime

MOLIY, Shenseea, Silent Addy, Skillibeng – Shake It To The Max (FLY) – Remix

Geese – Bow Down

Turnstile – LOOK OUT FOR ME

Rebecca Black – Sugar Water Cyanide

Bad Bunny – DtMF

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