r/decadeology • • Jun 15 '26

Discussion šŸ’­šŸ—Æļø Musicians whose careers stalled after Covid

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Camila Cabello was huge 2017-2019, but her popularity really dwindled post Covid. What other musicians were popular in the 2010s but fizzled after 2020s?Ā 

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u/happysunbear Jun 15 '26

Shawn Mendes

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u/allieatischeese Jun 15 '26

I actually looked him up the other day because I realized he had disappeared of the map and apparently he canceled his last tour midway through due to mental health reasons and has subsequently decided to take a step back from the lime light

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u/cidthekid07 Jun 15 '26

No, it was mental health issues!

From the low tickets sales…..

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u/Massive-Exercise4474 Jun 15 '26

When tickets are $100+ how does any stadium get filled. Unless your a swiftie, or dolly parton how can anyone fill up stadiums.

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u/caretaeking Jun 15 '26

BTS’ tour this year has over 80 dates and all sold out in just the fan presale, didn’t even make it to general sale. And they’re all stadiums that American artists are struggling to sell. Oh, and tickets are expensiiiiiiive

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u/PinkRasberryFish Jun 15 '26

remember their Covid pap walks

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u/CaptainSparklebottom Jun 15 '26

I worked his show on backline in San Diego pre covid. I was taking direction from his mother, who I didn't know who she was, I thought she was a personal assistant or something, she was impressed by my professionalism and when Shawn arrived she introduced me to him and we shook hands and exchanged pleasantries. Shawn is nowhere near my taste of music but that always left a good impression on me. Kind of sad to hear he fell off.

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u/Shukumugo Jun 15 '26

Oof his music was blasted pretty much everywhere 7-10 years ago

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u/iceunelle Jun 15 '26

He joined some sort of religious cult was the last thing I read about him a year or two ago.

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u/Glittering-Barber-15 Jun 15 '26

Haven't heard from him since low-key

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u/memopepito Jun 15 '26

There’s a lot of rappers that were really blowing up before Covid that I never hear about anymore- like Lil Baby, Roddy Rich, and A Boogie for example.

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u/PhillithJohnsonius Jun 15 '26

Rich the Kid. But maybe he was a 2 hit/1 album wonder

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u/sacktheory Jun 15 '26

Dababy. Lil Baby didn’t fall off until like 2023, a lot of his biggest songs are from 2022

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u/Annie_James Jun 15 '26

DaBaby fell off because of his drama.

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u/youngscoott Jun 15 '26

Dababy true, but I think that also had to do with the homophobic remarks he made right before COVID. I think that’s really what fucked he’s career up and now he’s forever cancelled it would seem

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u/tbone9000 Jun 15 '26

Roddy Ricch really seemed like he was here to stay

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u/TJMcConnellFanClub Jun 15 '26

G-Eazy is now opening for Logic so yeah gotta be him

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '26

Both of them lol

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u/gambishchildino Jun 15 '26

G-Eazy got bigger than he ever should have been, really enjoyed his early stuff but he went mainstream and wack

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u/weightedbook Jun 15 '26

Is GEazy and Blackbear the same person?

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u/RomaineCatholic Jun 15 '26

Blackbear did the exact same verse from his own song on another artist's track and they had the audacity to call it a feature. Wildly overrated and glad they've fucked off.

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u/MajorPaper4169 Jun 15 '26

Fun fact: Logic is bi racial. Just throwing that out there cause I don’t think he ever mentioned it.

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u/mikewatt-ta Jun 15 '26

I’ve got an even funner fact - the rapper logic, recently revealed that his dad is black and his mum is white

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u/WitchyKitteh Jun 15 '26

It's co-headliner and a throwback to this.

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u/TalkingLampPost Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

She’ll be home for Quismoiss

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u/Jewelstorybro Jun 15 '26

Merry Quiznos!

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u/SilverCyclist Jun 15 '26

Where the hell did those guys go?

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u/Recreationalchem13 Jun 15 '26

We Quiznos sub da da da da da da šŸŽ¶ Quiznos subs sucked hahaha
https://giphy.com/gifs/35Odd9NiWAKWY

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u/stereosanctity Jun 15 '26

Grand Foyer

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u/mel-06 Early 2010s were the best Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Charlie Puth
Halsey
Chain smokers
Alissa Cara
Roddy Rich (I really thought he was going to have his minute of fame have longevity after ā€œThe Boxā€ but I was wrong)
Travis Scott ( a bit)

noah cyrus

lil xan

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u/XavierMarvin Early 2000s were the best Jun 15 '26

Julia Michaels

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u/mel-06 Early 2010s were the best Jun 15 '26

I really liked Julia’s EP ā€œInner monologueā€ Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 but then she went in a COMPLETELY different direction with ā€œNot in chronological orderā€ which scared me away

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u/annaleemac Jun 15 '26

Thank youuu. See You Again and One Call Away are the same song in different fonts

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u/MeowM30ws Jun 15 '26

As was "Attention" and "Light Switch". He's got a formula!

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u/OpportunityIcy8894 Jun 15 '26

It’s crazy that he’s a smart guy with perfect pitch who seems to have all of ingredients to be a star, but he just can’t figure out his songwriting.

He needs to dig deeper and put more of his struggles into his music, he plays things WAY too safe.

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u/WhyAreThereTomatoes Jun 15 '26

Charlie puth has perfect pitch? First I'm hearing of it

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u/BigE1996 Jun 15 '26

Under appreciated comment

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u/Manotto15 Jun 15 '26

Can't figure it out? He has writing credits on four songs that reached US top 10 and dozens that have charted. He's made tens of millions of dollars doing it. He is a star, he doesn't just have the ingredients lol.

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u/Tommy_Wisseau_burner Jun 15 '26

Chainsmokers fall off was more because their style died, not because of covid specifically. The house/edm/house pop kind of ran its course even by 2019

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u/freshoffthecouch Jun 15 '26

That could be said for a lot of them, Covid was also the end of that decade and music has changed pretty significantly

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u/Neinstein14 Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

The music of Chainsmokers, for me, hold so many emotions that is hard to specify. It followed me through the best days of my life. University years, being on an exchange program in North Sweden.

Paris was my favorite music even before that. Then I met a girl with who I fell in love so deeply I will never do again, simply because I’m not a teen anymore. We lived together for half a year and were sweethearths - I still think of those days fondly, even after everything bad happened later.

Her favorite band was also Chainsmokers, and her favorite from them was also Paris.

I’m sad they didn’t stay as popular as they were around COVID. Their etherian style is so calming and moody I’m yet to find a similar band.

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u/threaddew Jun 15 '26

I’m glad that you had this experience.

This is how most people feel about the bands they loved during this period in their life. It doesn’t really go away.

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u/StanIsHorizontal Jun 15 '26

This makes me think which artists from the late 2010s actually survived covid. A lot of the older artists that are still around I think were already well established.

Covid really flattened the landscape by putting a lot of young careers on ice and then they had to compete with all these new acts and the established ones, who were somewhat insulated but also had more reason to make sure they got everything they could out of their careers

Come to think of it, I think this same phenomenon happened in a lot of job markets

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u/allieatischeese Jun 15 '26

Halsey is still pretty popular. Her last album 'The Great Impersonator' was will received among her fan base and a lot of the shows on that tour sold out

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u/DeadBabyPinata Jun 15 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/popheads/s/kpYMSJzXKn

She had a bit of a thing with her label so that may be why people haven't heard from her in a bit. But she's definitely still got the support. We making it out of the badlands some day bois.

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u/VampireOnHoyt Jun 15 '26

The Great Impersonator is fantastic, albeit an emotionally difficult listen.

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u/klapanen Jun 15 '26

Whatever the reason or someone's feelings, including my own, her objective commercial peak was Badlands and I would be a psychopath going to every tour date if she still made music even slightly resembling that era.

During American You(th) she was just smoking cigarettes, listening to music, and snacking with fans. Had a mysterious and strange aspect. But, the music is boring and the culture surrounding music & concerts is just not what it was a decade ago, people in a box office line circa 2015 would spit in your face hearing the price of the same artists now. So, my interest has just waned.

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u/greenday5494 Jun 15 '26

Badlands

Badlands was fuckin amazing

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u/Currency080Trick Jun 15 '26

That's more to a musical genre shift (Chainsmokers in particular)

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u/thewalkindude368 Jun 15 '26

Travis Scott was still pretty popular after the pandemic. Until 8 people were crushed to death at Astroworld. That kind of thing usually hurts your popularity.

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u/Iloveskinnywomen Jun 15 '26

All of these are accurate but Travis ScottĀ 

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u/enraged_hbo_max_user Jun 15 '26

I thought Alessa Cara had already disappeared before covid, but maybe I’m wrong. I just remember tuning into her SNL in like 2016 to hear her sing Scars to Your Beautiful and just immediately thinking the whole time ā€œoh girlie, absolutely NO ONE is going to remember you in five yearsā€

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u/Automatic_Gift_7663 Jun 15 '26

Shawn mendes
Normani

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u/FergusonBishop Jun 15 '26

They’ve been telling me Normani is the next global superstar for a decade now

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u/Nice_History_5046 Jun 15 '26

Khalid

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u/big-tunaaa Jun 15 '26

I went to one of his concerts in 2018 because American teen was just such a good album. It was pretty awful, but have him a break since he first was starting out. Turns out it was quite literally the peak, sun city had some hits but what the hell happened?!!

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u/annaleemac Jun 15 '26

Oh gosh, so did I, but my friends and I went for the now-defunct boyband opener 😭 They also got fucked by covid. And the fact that like all of them are problematic

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u/Downtown-Vacation395 Jun 15 '26

I saw Khalid open for Ed Sheeran in 2023, he was terrible live. I mean terrible.

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u/ForukusuwagenMasuta Jun 15 '26

Speaking of Camila, I figured she'd be a megastar by now due to the popularity of "Havana". She could've practically been the Latina Sabrina Carpenter.

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u/freshoffthecouch Jun 15 '26

Camilas issue is finding the right singles. She peaked with Havana, but nothing after gained the same level of traction and her pop star image shifted a lot. I actually really like Oh My My My, but it didn’t pick up too much

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u/countessjonathan Jun 15 '26

Don’t Go Yet was fun too. It’s on one of the Just Dance games

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u/pdt666 Jun 15 '26

and azaelia banks could have been the straight doechii that came before doechii but azaelia and camila ruined their own success and were their own roadblocks.Ā 

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u/thewalkindude368 Jun 15 '26

What did Camilla do? I don't think she was actively insane like Azalia.

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u/pdt666 Jun 15 '26

i don’t think anyone is as crazy as azaelia banks tbh😭

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u/RealCarlPanzram Jun 15 '26

Her songs were really formulaic, and shallow. Catchy but clearly just churned out by song-writers. Havana was catchy but I’m not surprised she didn’t have staying power.

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u/CrystallizedRose Jun 15 '26

Wasn’t she extremely disliked from the beginning? Like, people loved Havana but I always heard her old girl group and fans of it found her very annoying and I only think that compounded after dating Shawn Mendes. That might just be me though.

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u/hanksrocks Jun 15 '26

Club scene died = club music died. A lot of these artists pretty much only made music people dance too. Covid killed da clurb lol

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u/B-Train_ATL Jun 15 '26

Then JT ruined the tour.

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u/KriKri2You Jun 15 '26

What tour

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u/annaleemac Jun 15 '26

The world tour šŸ˜•

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u/lo-finate Jun 15 '26

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u/bingo-dingaling Jun 15 '26

Not an artist who fell off bc of covid, but an album: Chromatica by Lady Gaga. It was supposed to be THE club music album of summer 2020, especially for the LGBT community. "Rain on me" with Ariana Grande had me so pumped for Gaga Summer lol but then covid happened, and their line "I'd rather by dry, but at least I'm alive" took on new meaning

(Edit: misspelled the album smdh)

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u/FuzzMcGrunt91 Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

Might be a stretch but I feel Childish Gambino was on a steady climb to be much more mainstream around 2018-19 and then....crickets

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u/MLNYC Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

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u/Sea-Supermarket-3606 Jun 15 '26

Exactly correct. It was a conscious decision and I respect that, even if I'm a little bummed I had tickets to the part of his last tour he canceled for health reasons. Awaken, My Love has consistently been in my top favorite 15-20 albums since it released.

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u/FuzzMcGrunt91 Jun 15 '26

JFC, y'all ive been out of the loop (2024 was a blur as I was finishing up school is my excuse): this man had a stroke in 2024? He can take as long as a break and do whatever the hell he wants with his career at this point. More power to ya Donald

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u/Accomplished_Mix7827 Jun 15 '26

It's really a shame how the up-and-comers of the late 2010s had their careers stall out because of covid killing their momentum.

Which has also led to an odd side effect of late 2000s/early 2010s musicians still being relevant, long after the next wave should have pushed them out of the limelight.

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u/Tommy_Wisseau_burner Jun 15 '26

It’s less Covid and more the music industry. Many of these people are found out from going viral rather than their talent. So they don’t really have any staying power.

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u/missprincesscarolyn Jun 15 '26

It really sucks actually. I know monoculture had its flaws, but I liked being able to listen to new music that I knew other people were also listening at the same time. New shows too. And it was genuinely cool to watch artists blow up after they put in the work.

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u/freshoffthecouch Jun 15 '26

I’d argue is more that the decade ended than Covid. Because we were all home, we were consuming content like crazy. It was, arguably, the best time for artists to release new music and sing live on socials

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u/affectionateanarchy8 Jun 15 '26

Lizzo even though she is trying to come back

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u/almondmilklattehag Jun 15 '26

It wasn’t covid that did it, it was Lizzo

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u/dani_o25 Jun 15 '26

Exactly! How are you going to build a career/brand around body positivity and then once Ozempic comes around you abandon everything that made you famous to begin with.

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u/Tommy_Wisseau_burner Jun 15 '26

I mean it was more the sexual assault shit that did her in than ozempic but point still stands. If it wasn’t that it would’ve been ozempic. Case in point: Megan trainer

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u/TimelessParadox Jun 15 '26

Wasn't it that she got cancelled when it got out that she forced her staff to eat bananas that were previously inside sex workers?

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u/HarryLewisPot Jun 15 '26

Saw her at Kevin hart roast

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u/iceunelle Jun 15 '26

I was so bummed Covid killed their comeback. I loved the song React and was excited to hear more from them.

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u/XavierMarvin Early 2000s were the best Jun 15 '26

Alessia Cara.

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u/mr781 Jun 15 '26

I feel like in 2017 she was one of those artists that was ubiquitous on paper but no one actually talked about

Like you’d hear her at the airport or the grocery store but you’d never hear someone say ā€œYo someone put on that new Alessia Cara!!ā€

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u/friendlytrashmonster Jun 15 '26

I loved her music back in the day. Had her album on repeat. She has a couple more jazzy versions of her big hits that really demonstrate her vocal prowess.

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u/Currency080Trick Jun 15 '26

Was she really that big? Or was she "on the verge"

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u/ToxicApes Jun 15 '26

Lizzo
Khalid
Alessia Cara

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u/petite_chungus Jun 15 '26

Chance the Rapper. The Big Day headed into COVID is an awful 1-2 punch

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u/Own-Recognition9009 Jun 15 '26

I feel she's making a comeback. I saw her at Madison Square Garden. It was sold out.Ā 

The problem is that Demi doesn't have a solid artistic identity. She tries new things,says that is her new identity,then abandons it.

For example,she seemed to be interested in only doing rock with the releases of Holy FVck and Revampef. Then she decided to release a dance albumĀ 

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u/Unlikely_Couple1590 Jun 15 '26

Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendes, Charlie Puth, Lizzo, Meghan Trainor, John Legend, Rihanna

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u/lo-finate Jun 15 '26

I don't think Rihanna even wants to perform or sing anymore. She makes millions in other ways.

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u/CarllSagan Jun 15 '26

Grimes. But shes a mom and dealing with her baby daddy ex situation.

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u/missprincesscarolyn Jun 15 '26

Grimes is a hot mess. Or maybe just a mess. I can’t separate the artist from the art. She legitimately lost her mind during and after Musk. And her music wasn’t anywhere near as punchy or unique as Art Angels. I just don’t know that it can be topped tbh.

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u/DreamOne5 Jun 15 '26

I don't think she could top Art Angels again. That album was so good.

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u/lordsammy1 Jun 15 '26

camila was still pretty big until 2022- she did the champions league final and her music did quite will until 2022

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u/washcyclerepeat Jun 15 '26

HaVannNaanaNanNaaAaa

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u/Twitter_2006 Jun 15 '26

Camila is unlikable.

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u/Capable_Cockroach_19 Party like it's 1999 Jun 15 '26

I had to Google her controversies because I looked up to Camila as someone who had a thriving career despite having setbacks from OCD. Very disappointing to hear about her racist remarks :(

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u/The_Lazy_Samurai Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

For those who want the details,

ā€œIn December 2019, Camila Cabello issued an apology after old offensive and racist posts from her early teenage years resurfaced on a Tumblr account. The posts featured derogatory memes, stereotypes about the Black community, and the repeated use of the N-word."

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u/Head_Bread_3431 Jun 15 '26

Ā follow any Hispanic onlyfans girl on ig and they all use the n word or ninja emoji when complaining about men lol

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u/GreenZebra23 Jun 15 '26

her early teenage years

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u/B-Train_ATL Jun 15 '26

Thank god my early teenage years weren’t documented online.

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u/Ambitious-Health-132 Jun 15 '26

ā€˜Teenage years’ literally loads of people were casually racist back then on the internet, even just thought it was harmless fun (we were all very uneducated)

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u/Alternative-Dare5878 Jun 15 '26

Xbox 360 folks sleeping well knowing their degeneracy was lost to time.

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u/Probwfls Jun 15 '26

She was like 14 lol

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u/Hizam5 Jun 15 '26

Lil Nas X

Luis Fonsi (ā€œDespacitoā€)

Lewis Capaldi

Juice WRLD (for a ā€œdifferentā€ reason)

Halsey

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u/shoestring-theory Jun 15 '26

Lil Nas X had a huge 2021 though, and went on tour and everything. His issues didn’t start until 2023-24ish.

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u/LeiDeGerson Jun 15 '26

What issues?

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u/artifexlife Jun 15 '26

He had a mental breakdown

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u/urbanlife78 Jun 15 '26

Halsey is a fucked up one. She put together a new album, but the label decided it wasn't pop enough and won't release it but also won't release her from her contract, so nothing new can come out from her

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u/empire_of_the_moon Jun 15 '26

Except that fulfills a contractual requirement to deliver an album. So she is not in breech.

It’s an important distinction.

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u/urbanlife78 Jun 15 '26

I was just rewatching the interview, apparently she is barred from making any new music with her label because they don't like the experimental alternative music she wants to make

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Jun 15 '26

That sucks you can just be put in creative jail after signing a deal and then just can’t do anything

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u/Hizam5 Jun 15 '26

I've heard some similar stories from actors/actresses who signed multi-picture deals with a studio, and couldn't get out of the contract till they fulfilled the allotted requirement, which included -- in their cases -- a couple of bad movies with scripts they knew were awful from the get go. And because of that, they missed out on opportunities to do other movies that were extremely successful.

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u/AllAlo0 Jun 15 '26

Lewis Capaldi has been dealing with mental health issues and getting his Tourette's under control. He is back to releasing music and touring, he hasn't lost it.

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u/xNotJosieGrossy Jun 15 '26

I haven’t seen much of Lorde lately

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u/Alternativesoundwave Jun 15 '26

She released an album in 2025 and one in 2021. Man of the year and what was that got some attention but her first two albums are better

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u/kracketmatow Jun 15 '26

to me solar power didn’t really feel like it was written with the goal of charting. it more has the vibe of an album made with artistic goals in mind. similar to the most recent miley cyrus album

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u/Currency080Trick Jun 15 '26

Always get her confused with Charli XCX

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u/ThatsVeryGneiss Jun 15 '26

People say they’re alike, they say they’ve got the same hair.

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u/InevitableSevere6929 Jun 15 '26

Girl so confusing actually helped her

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u/outerspacetime Jun 15 '26

Ellie Goulding

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u/JulienS2000 Jun 15 '26

She hasn't been relevant for 10 years, long before Covid afaik

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u/firstbreathOOC Jun 15 '26

I’ll tell you who’s didn’t. Bruno Mars. Still making fuckin hits.

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u/tpa338829 Jun 15 '26

I remember watching an interview with Adele a few years ago and she was asked who she thought the most talented male vocalist was.

It took her less than a nanosecond to answer Bruno Mars. Said he has the biggest range of any artist she’s ever met.

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u/big_daddy_dub Jun 15 '26

I SWORE bro was just gonna be a fad artist in 2009. Shows what i know.

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u/firstbreathOOC Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

My friend’s dad is a 70 year old accountant who once said ā€œBruno mars is the only artist these days who gets it.ā€ That comment lives rent free in my head.

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u/invalidcosmonaut Jun 15 '26

I have seen a staggering number of 70 year olds get down to uptown funk

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u/Fckingross Jun 15 '26

I always play it at bars because EVERYONE gets down to it. Doesn’t matter age, race, gender… everyone knows the words and it’s good vibes.

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u/raerabbit27 Jun 15 '26

All I can think of with her is that performance where she was dancing with Ty dolla and kinda
Chihuahua humped him then pushed him away. Pure comedy

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u/Bubbly-Speaker-9008 Jun 15 '26

Megan Trainor

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u/musthavecupcakes_19 Jun 15 '26

She was already flopping well before COVID

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u/ancacri Jun 15 '26

Ava max

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u/lo-finate Jun 15 '26

Which is a shame. She's had some good songs, but then that momentum slips. Maybe it's her management or the record label.

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u/fasnoosh Jun 15 '26

Bo Burnham

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u/Acceptable-Yam-5700 Jun 15 '26

He did that movie in 2021. He made it pretty clear in the movie why we don’t see him much anymore.

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u/No-Beach4659 Jun 15 '26

Zara was on this list before midnight sun

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u/dokutarodokutaro Jun 15 '26

21 Pilots was like, the biggest band for a minute.

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u/QTRqtr Jun 15 '26

They’re still big. The sell out world tour arenas and constantly top the rock/alternative chart.

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u/looking4thepuchline Jun 15 '26

Yeah they just sold out Ohio Stadium and are on a festival headliner run right now. They’re one of the best selling artists currently in their genre. Honestly the fact that they had pop hits is more of outlier than the fact they don’t have radio hits currently. l-/

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u/jennifercathrin Jun 15 '26

they pivoted away from pop music

but they recently went viral with both Drag Path and Tally, they also featured on the Arcane soundtrack so I think they're good

but I do wish more people listened to Clancy and Breach because they are both fantastic albums imo

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u/marsthechocolate Jun 15 '26

Katy Perry.

2010-2013 were her prime years, from 2013 on she started to flop, and from Covid on… yawn.

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u/Gold-Vanilla5591 Jun 15 '26

The issue was that she didn’t know how to change with the trends in music. I feel like 2008-2013 were her big years but she started loosing popularity in like 2017 with Swish Swish.

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u/Pizzasupreme00 Jun 15 '26

The astronaut katy perry?

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u/ks99 Jun 15 '26

Khalid

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u/Mr-MuffinMan Jun 15 '26

Lorde, maybe? Pure Heroine was peak and Melodrama was also pretty big.

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u/moodyboy17 Jun 15 '26

Ava Max has never really been big but she was more relevant pre-Covid.

James Bay had minor hits in the late 2010s.

In her own niche, Róisín Murphy was pretty relevant and respected circa 2020 with Róisín Machine until she made some controversial statements shortly after.

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u/souljaboy765 2000's fan Jun 15 '26

Lil Nas X

He had a moment in 2021 with MONTERO but has flopped since

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u/Diredr Jun 15 '26

I'd say the racism slowed Camilla's career a lot more than covid, personally...

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u/TheRtHonLaqueesha Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

According to Google search metrics, Alessia Cara. Which is a shame since I'm a big fan.

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u/DocklandsDodgers86 Jun 15 '26

Do Clean Bandit qualify?

I was listening to the radio the other day where the host was doing "hits from the last two decades" and Rockabye and Symphony both came on.

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u/SizeableBrain Jun 15 '26

I don't know who Camila Cabello is, but she looks a bit like my wife. Not as hot though.

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u/Sharpiesniffingshark Jun 15 '26

Stalled is a generous word for her career.

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u/DreamOne5 Jun 15 '26

Meghan Trainor. Once she jumped on the Monjurno train and got hella skinny, that was pretty much it for her post covid. Plus her songs are very very generic.

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u/ButForRealsTho Jun 15 '26

Glass Animals.

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u/mountainlicker69 Jun 15 '26

they got pretty huge in 2020. I mean they weren’t small before that but they had a big surge. I was a fan before then Dreamland came out and I checked concert ticket prices and assumed i’d never be able to see them lol. Haven’t been keeping up with them but still listen to the older stuff always.

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u/santalmami Jun 15 '26

Joji was everywhere in 2019 and then after covid I never heard his music anywhere

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u/sashayyoustayy Jun 15 '26

Kim Petras even tho she had unholy with Sam smith (that’s an exception) all of her music and albums since 2019 have failed to resonate. the hype and general excitement she had 2018-2020 will never come back

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u/DLeon3 Jun 15 '26

All of these famous singers have disappeared because ticket prices are ridiculous and also there aren’t any true stars anymore. They all look alike and sound alike, there’s nothing unique to differentiate them from each other.

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u/DreamOne5 Jun 15 '26

Honestly kind of glad Camilla fizzled out. That one song of hers that was super popular in 2017 (Never Be The Same) was like nails on an effing chalkboard with all the auto tune. Good lord I couldn't stand it. Even Havana was better than that one.

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u/Uncle-Cake Jun 15 '26

Musicians who enter the industry via the "American Idol/X-Factor" route rarely have lasting music careers.

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u/GuitarHenry Jun 15 '26

Those ninnys earnestly playing jug music, with double bass and suspenders.Ā 

EDIT: Mumford & Sons. I couldn't remember their name

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u/ScrambledNoggin Jun 15 '26

Did their careers stall, or were they destined to be one-hit wonders from the start?

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u/itsfictionbaby Jun 15 '26

Dababy but he been kinda coming back

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u/vgaph Jun 15 '26

Haven’t heard from Meat Loaf lately…

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u/theawkwardotter Jun 15 '26

COVID DEFINITELY stalled his career. I don’t think he’ll ever come back.