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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