WK: Pop, Fun, Catchy #119
Twenty-two tracks of January 2019 Weekend Kickoff pop-fun-catchy programming — the new-year edition leaning into the year-end and early-2019 pop-radio peaks. Mabel anchors the UK-pop-radio bridge that was breaking through to American rotation; Bruno Mars brings the slick-pop-and-soul-pop anchor; Silk City carries the dance-pop-supergroup bridge; Dua Lipa drops in for the year’s most-played pop-radio peaks; Liam Payne closes the boy-band-solo-pop run. Built for a January Friday-evening pre-game when the energy needed a fresh-year lift. The early-2019 pop-rotation snapshot, intact.