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Dismissing every other track on the album as padding for “Peaches,” however, would be writing off one of the better pop albums of the last 12 months. Outside of the backlash the Biebs got for the MLK interludes on Justice, Bieber’s sixth record saw him in peak all-around form, toying with synths on “Die For You” and “Deserve You,” tapping into Simon-and-Garfunkel mode for dreamy acoustic love song “Off My Face,” and crafting an up-tempo emotional plea on eventual October single “Ghost.” With proven hitmakers Andrew Watt and Louis Bell, and go-to band leader Harv making a more permanent stay in Bieber’s circles, as past collaborators Skrillex and Benny Blanco (and Poo Bear in extended album versions) returned, Justice was able to secure a top spot on the Billboard 200 during its first week, debuting with 154,000 equivalent album units moved.
然而，将专辑中的所有其他曲目斥之为“桃子”的填充物，将是过去12个月中最好的流行专辑之一。除了Biebs因MLK关于正义的插曲而受到强烈反对外，Bieber的第六张唱片让他以巅峰全方位的形式出现，在《为你而死》和《值得你》中玩弄合成器，利用Simon-and-Garfunkel模式创作梦幻般的原声情歌《Off My Face》，并在最终的10月单曲《Ghost》中精心策划了快的情感恳求。随着成熟的热门歌手Andrew Watt和Louis Bell以及首选乐队领队Harv在Bieber的圈子里更永久地停留，随着过去的合作者Skrillex和Benny Blanco（以及扩展专辑版本的Poo Bear）的回归，Justice在第一周获得了公告牌200的榜首位，首次移动了154,000个同等专辑单元。

Bieber would continue to add to the set throughout the year, first with March’s Triple Chucks Deluxe version — which arrived the same week as his surprise-release religious-themed Freedom EP — and then October’s The Complete Edition. And as “Peaches” began to run out of song-of-the-summer steam, Bieber took the season right back with a vengeance on his addictive Kid LAROI teamup “Stay,” which once again topped the Hot 100 and earned him his eighth career stay on the throne. As someone who experienced (and survived) teen-pop stardom, the Biebs even stepped in for a bit of a mentorship role, as LAROI linked with (and quickly unlinked with) Scooter Braun Projects. This was the furthest thing from a transfer of power among young pop trailblazers, though – if anything, “Stay” helped JB reassert his dominance throughout 2021.
比伯全年将继续增加布景，首先是三月的三重Chucks豪华版——与他惊喜发行的宗教主题自由EP同一周推出——然后是10月的完整版。随着“桃子”开始耗尽夏日之歌的蒸汽，比伯立即带着对他上瘾的孩子LAROI团队“留下来”的报复，这个赛季再次登上了热门100强，并为他赢得了他职业生涯中的第八次登基。作为一个经历过（并幸存下来）青少年流行歌星的人，Biebs甚至担任了一些导师的角色，因为LAROI与Scooter Braun项目有联系（并很快与之脱钩）。然而，这是与年轻流行开拓者之间权力移交最远的事情——如果有的话，“留下来”帮助JB在整个2021年重新确立了他的主导地位。

To keep the his guest-star momentum going in August, JB then joined Wizkid and Tems on the remix of their already global smash “Essence,” further monopolizing the airwaves during his winningest summer in years. His inclusion helped the song rise to a new Hot 100 peak of No. 9 and was reminiscent of Bieber’s 2016 and 2017 feature frolick, when everything he touched — from DJ Khaled’s “I’m The One” to Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s record-breaking “Despacito” — didn’t just turn to gold, but to multi-platinum.
为了在8月份保持客串明星的势头，JB随后与Wizkid和Tems一起重新混合了他们已经是全球的轰动一时的“精华”，在他多年来最获胜的夏天进一步垄断了广播。他的加入帮助这首歌升至第9位的新热门100强峰，让人想起了Bieber2016年和2017年的特写frolick，当时他接触到的一切——从DJ Khaled的《我是那个人》到Luis Fonsi和洋基爸爸破纪录的《Despacito》——不仅变成了金牌，还变成了多白金。

Bieber was also appropriately rewarded for his victories over these last 12 months. He capped an opening performance at the MTV Video Music Awards in September, alongside partner-in-crime LAROI, with an artist of the year win at the ceremonies. And while a career-record eight Grammy nominations in November — including in three of the Big Four categories (album, song and record of the year) — was no doubt validating for Bieber, he was likely most excited about the one in the best R&B performance category, a nod which was only a dream a year before. For the first time in his career, JB is being recognized in all of his elements, and whether or not a Recording Academy sweep is on the horizon, Bieber’s year is ending far more triumphantly than it began.
比伯在过去12个月的胜利中也得到了适当的回报。他在9月份的MTV视频音乐奖上与犯罪搭档LAROI一起结束了开幕表演，一位年度艺术家在仪式上获胜。虽然11月创下的八项格莱美提名——包括四大类别中的三个（专辑、歌曲和年度唱片）——无疑对比伯有效，但他可能对最佳R&B表演类别的提名最兴奋，这一点头只是一年前的梦想。JB在他的职业生涯中首次在他的所有元素中都得到了认可，无论录音学院的横扫是否即将到来，Bieber的一年的结束都远比开始时更加胜利。

There have been numerous moments in the pop and R&B star’s career where he’s faced adversity and returned stronger than before. His career arc has been built on his ability to weather the storm, navigate changing audience interests, and get back in everyone’s good graces time and time again. The latest journey from Changes to Justice never required an image-altering haircut or apology tour to the general public tis time. It needed something that perhaps nobody has pulled off as often as Justin Bieber in the past decade: a pop smash that absolutely nobody can deny. He gave us two in 2022. And he sure as hell has a lot more left in him.
这位流行音乐和R&B明星的职业生涯中有很多时刻，他面临着逆境，并比以前更强大。他的职业生涯弧线建立在他经受住风暴、驾驭不断变化的观众兴趣以及一次又一次地恢复每个人的良好恩典的能力之上。从《变化到正义》的最新旅程从来不需要改变形象的发型或向公众道歉。它需要一些在过去十年中可能没有人像贾斯汀·比伯那样经常完成的事情：一场绝对没有人能否认的流行音乐。他在2022年给了我们两个。他肯定还剩下很多东西。

No. 7 — Drake
After a mildly disappointing 2020 for Drake, 2021 saw The Boy back in commercially historic form, still as bulletproof as ever。
在德雷克的2020年略有失望后，2021年《男孩》以商业历史的形式回归，仍然和以往一样防弹。

For this year’s update of our ongoing Greatest Pop Star by Year project, Billboard is counting down our staff picks for the top 10 pop stars of 2021 for the rest of this week. At No. 7, we remember the year in Drake — who once again captured the music world’s attention, and rewrote chart history in the process.
为了今年我们正在进行的年度最佳流行歌星项目的更新，公告牌将在本周剩余时间倒计时我们挑选的2021年前10名流行歌星。在第7位，我们缅怀德雷克的一年——德雷克再次吸引了音乐界的注意力，并在此过程中重写了图表历史。

But January 2021 comes, and the previously promised record is nowhere in sight. A knee injury has apparently halted the Toronto superstar’s plans to drop CLB on its original release date. “Start writing the best bounce back story NOW,” he remarked shortly after the injury occurred.
但2021年1月到了，之前承诺的记录遥遥无期。膝盖受伤显然阻止了这位多伦多巨星在原上映日期放弃CLB的计划。“现在就开始写最好的反弹故事，”受伤后不久，他说。

And what a bounce back this year ended up being for the artist born Aubrey Graham. A lacking-only-by-his-standards 2020 – where “Toosie Slide” off his Dark Lane Demo Tapes mixtape still debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and loose single “Laugh Now, Cry Later” peaked at No. 2 and hung around well into the new year — a debilitating knee injury and a delayed album release all posed daunting challenges, even for an artist whose every move has the potential to define the cultural zeitgeist at any given moment.
对于这位出生于奥布里·格雷厄姆的艺术家来说，今年的反弹真是一场。2020年缺乏仅按他标准运行的标准——他的黑暗巷演示磁带混音带上的“Toosie幻灯片”仍然在公告牌热门100上首次亮相，松散的单曲“现在笑，稍后哭泣”达到第2位，并一直徘徊到新的一年——虚弱的膝盖受伤和专辑发行延迟都构成了严峻的挑战，即使对一个每一步都有可能在任何特定时刻定义文化时代精神的艺术家来说也是如此。

But it did not take that long to get people talking again. In early March, Drake announced and dropped the quick-hit Scary Hours 2 EP, a three-track warmup for CLB that included contributions from frequent collaborators Lil Baby and Rick Ross. And no better way to get the buzz back on your side than debuting all three songs in the top three spots of the Hot 100 – a first for any artist – with the blaring “What’s Next” leading the pack, a shot he even called with the song’s predictive boast, “I’m on the Hot One Hundo, numero uno.”
但没过那么长时间，人们就又开口了。3月初，德雷克宣布并放弃了快速点击的《恐怖时刻2》EP，这是CLB的三轨热身，其中包括频繁合作者Lil Baby和Rick Ross的贡献。没有比在热门100强的前三名首次亮相所有三首歌曲更好的方法了——这是任何艺术家的首曲——以响亮的“下一步是什么”为首，他甚至用这首歌的预测性吹嘘“我在Hot One Hundo，numero uno”称这一镜头。

With CLB still in the oven, Drake carried the thunder of his early March splash back into the feature pipeline, popping up in seemingly every corner of the hip-hop world to keep his name floating around. Guest spots were granted to newcomers like Yung Bleu and Smiley, fresh-out-of-prison MC Drakeo the Ruler, and longtime friends like Migos. This made him a ubiquitous voice throughout 2021, no matter which corner of the hip-hop world listeners resided in. On top of that, Yung Bleu turned the success of “You’re Mines Still” into a breakout 2021 for himself — including a best new hip-hop artist win at the BET Hip-Hop Awards — a sign that a Drake verse still holds immense power in minting rap’s rising stars.
由于CLB仍在烤箱中，德雷克将他3月初溅起的雷声带回了功能管道，似乎出现在嘻哈世界的每个角落，以保持他的名字四处漂浮。嘉宾名额授予了Yung Bleu和Smiley等新来者、刚出监狱的统治者MC Drakeo以及Migos等老朋友。这使得他在整个2021年的声音无处不在，无论嘻哈世界的听众居住在哪个角落。除此之外，Yung Bleu将《你仍然是矿山》的成功变成了2021年的突破——包括一名最佳新嘻哈艺术家在BET嘻哈奖上获胜——这表明德雷克的诗句在铸造说唱的冉冉升起的明星方面仍然具有巨大的力量。

And that inevitability, commercial tenacity and perpetual dominance was honored in monumental fashion at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, when he was named artist of the decade for the 2010s, accepting the award with friends, family and his son Adonis by his side. “I just know that I’ve spent an incalculable amount of hours trying to analyze all the things I did wrong, but tonight, for once, I’m sure as hell we did something right,” Drake remarked during his acceptance speech. He rented out the newly built SoFi Stadium to celebrate the accolade with family and friends well before any fan could step foot inside to watch a Rams or Chargers game there.
在2021年公告牌音乐奖上，这种不可避免性、商业坚韧性和永久的主导地位以不朽的方式得到了表彰，当时他被任命为2010年代十年艺术家，在朋友、家人和儿子阿多尼斯的陪伴下接受了该奖项。德雷克在获奖感言中说：“我只知道，我花了数不计的时间试图分析我做错的所有事情，但今晚，我确信我们做了正确的事情。”他租出了新建的SoFi体育场，在任何球迷踏入观看公羊队或充电器比赛之前，与家人和朋友一起庆祝荣誉。

While work on Drake’s sixth studio album entered the eleventh hour, the summer seemingly belonged to hip-hop world-swallower Kanye West as his lead-up to Donda spanned three stadium-sized listening parties across multiple months of drama, speculation and conversation. Amidst the chaos came the resurfacing of tensions between the two hip-hop titans, which had most memorably percolated back in 2018 following fellow GOOD Music lieutenant Pusha T’s diss track exposé of Drake’s hidden child. Text exchanges and home addresses hit social media in mid-August, nondescript video responses were posted, and the two once again found themselves at hip-hop internet’s center stage.
当德雷克第六张录音室专辑的工作进入最后一刻时，这个夏天似乎属于嘻哈世界吞噬者坎耶·韦斯特，因为他在唐达的前奏跨越了三个体育场大小的聆听派对，经历了几个月的戏剧性、猜测和对话。在混乱中，两位嘻哈巨头之间的紧张关系再次浮出水面，在GOOD Music中尉Pusha T揭露德雷克隐藏的孩子后，这些紧张关系在2018年就最令人难忘地被渗透了。8月中旬，文本交换和家庭地址在社交媒体上流行起来，发布了非描述性的视频回复，两人再次发现自己处于嘻哈互联网的中心舞台。

Kanye’s 10th studio effort arrived early on the Sunday morning following its final listening party in late August, and a cryptic SportsCenter tease set the long-awaited Certified Lover Boy for the Friday after. Deliberate or not, their close proximity in release dates naturally set the two up for critical and commercial competition, and fans took to forums and comment sections to take sides on the latest Drake versus Kanye bout. CLB tracks like “7AM On Birdie Path” seemingly stoked the feud’s flames: “And look at the heroes fallin’ from grace in their older ages/ If we talkin’ top three, then you been slidin’ to third like stolen bases.”
Kanye的第10次工作室工作是在8月底最后一次聆听派对后于周日清晨到来，一个神秘的SportsCenter戏弄为期待已久的认证情人男孩设定了后周五。无论是否深思熟虑，他们在上映日期的近距离接触自然为两者提供了关键和商业竞争，粉丝们在论坛和评论区，在德雷克对坎耶的最新回合中站在一边。像《Birdie Path上的早上7点》这样的美国职业棒球大联盟曲目似乎点燃了宿怨的火焰：“看看那些年老时从恩典中堕落的英雄/如果我们谈论前三名，那么你就像被盗的基地一样滑向第三。”