On the latest Billboard Pop Shop Podcast — and near the eve of Christmas — hosts Katie and Keith are talking through a selection of unforgettable movies, and moments, featuring holiday music – including White Christmas (1954), Home Alone (1990), Elf (2003), Love Actually (2003) and Mean Girls (2004). Plus, as it’s the final episode of the pod for 2025, the team also jingles their way through a chat about some of their favorite holiday movies that are essential viewing during the season. Some of those festive films include The Polar Express, Scrooged, The Muppet Christmas Carol and the original Miracle on 34th Street.

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Katie and Keith talk through two of the major New Year's Eve TV events broadcasting before the clock strikes 2026: Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest, headlined by Diana Ross in New York's Times Square, and New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash, which will be headlined by Lainey Wilson, Jason Aldean and Bailey Zimmerman. Plus, there's chart news on how Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" earns a landmark 20th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie and Keith are chatting about six brand-new Christmas songs from Christina Aguilera, Cher, Jonas Brothers featuring Kenny G, Kylie Minogue, Penatonix and Frank Sinatra and Gwen Stefani. Also on the show, we've got chart news on Taylor Swift, Wham!, Mariah Carey, Bing Crosby, Michael Bublé and the "A Charlie Brown Christmas" soundtrack, plus, a festive chart stat of the week about the 1987 "A Very Special Christmas" charity album.

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Pentatonix's Kirstin Maldonado and Matt Sallee pop by the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast to chat about the group's new album "Christmas In the City," their current holiday tour, and all things merry and bright. Plus, we've got chart news on Stray Kids, Aerosmith and the "Wicked: For Good" soundtrack.

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Kevin Jonas, the eldest Jonas Brother, just put out his solo debut single “Changing” last week, and we talked to him all about why now was the right time for his own music, how he found the perfect song, and whether there will be more solo Kevin music on the horizon. Plus, in addition to their ongoing Greetings From Your Hometown Tour, the brothers also reunited for A Very Jonas Christmas Movie, which arrived last month on Disney+ alongside a soundtrack album. We chat with Kevin about how the movie perfectly sets up his solo moment, whether the film accurately captured a Jonas family Christmas, and his own memories of Christmastime growing up with his musical family.

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Mariah Carey might say "It's time" for Christmas, but what about Thanksgiving? We're chatting all about this year's slate of major music entertainment that will happen on Thanksgiving Day on television, along with a smattering of Katie's favorite Thanksgiving songs. Plus, we've got chart news on Rosalía, Olivia Dean, sombr and more!

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On this week's Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are chatting through the 2026 Grammy nominations, starting with the Big Four categories (album, record and song of the year, plus best new artist), and continuing with our pop-focused musings down the list. Question No. 1: Why is "Golden" -- the breakout hit from Netflix's musical juggernaut KPop Demon Hunters -- nominated in the song of the year category but not record of the year? With its sky-high vocals courtesy of the real-life women behind the animated K-pop groiup HUNTR/X (EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI) and its electric, inescapable electronic production, it feels tailor-made for the category honoring the recording of a song.

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Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, Brandi Carlile, Doechii, Nicole Scherzinger and more are set to unveil the nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards during a livestream on the Recording Academy's YouTube page that begins at 11 a.m. ET on Friday morning. On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about the nominations livestream, Mariah Carey's annual announcement of when it's time to welcome the holiday season (spoiler alert: it's time), as well as rap's two-week absence from the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time since 1990.

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On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are chatting about Ariana Grande kicking off the 'Wicked: For Good' press tour by sitting down with Evan Ross Katz on his 'Shut Up Evan' podcast. In the 45-minute-plus conversation, Katz asks what Grande's relationship is with mentorship -- and that's when she shouts out the triumvirate of pop superstars. There's Madonna, who was "immediately very kind," Grande said. Then there's Beyoncé, who invited Ari to join her on a music video set early in her career ("she just was being kind"). Then there's Mariah Carey -- because "of course, Mariah."

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Ahead of his new album Whatever's Clever!, Charlie Puth has been testing out some of his new material during a 16-show residency across Blue Note New York (Sept. 25-28) and Blue Night Los Angeles (Oct. 16-19), bringing jazzy reimaginings of some of his biggest hits to the legendary jazz club stage. Billboard was inside the final Los Angeles concert over the weekend, and on the new Pop Shop Podcast, Katie is telling Keith all about seeing Puth play at such an intimate venue.

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