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New Pop Stars Are Breaking Out for the First Time in Years

From Sabrina Carpenter to Benson Boone, more new artists are landing hit songs than ever before.

Benson Boone scored his first No. 1 single with Beautiful Things.

Photo credit : Dennis Leupold

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Last week’s presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump may go down as the most memorable since Kennedy-Nixon in 1960. Biden’s repeated stumbles prompted seemingly every opinion writer ever employed by a major media organization to call for him to step aside.