It was the year that multimedia star Justin Timberlake and EDM progenitors Daft Punk made massive, long-awaited comebacks. It was the year that former Disney teen-pop star Miley Cyrus reinvented herself as a genre-blending pop renegade, swinging into the Top 40 world like a certain demolition device. 1 on the Hot 100 with the minimalist pop fantasy “Royals.” It was the year that Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, a throwback hip-hop duo from Seattle, turned a local following into a national movement with a pair of ubiquitous pop-rap smashes. It was the year a prodigious 16-year-old singer-songwriter from New Zealand named Lorde crossed over from the alternative world all the way to No. Pop music made for a year of fascinating stories in 2013, particularly at the very top of the charts. Below, we continue with 2014, a year that saw discussions about the role of race in popular music impact the conversations around many of the biggest artists. To recap the decade that was, Billboard is looking at one major theme from each year and explaining how it dominated that 12-month period.
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