Why spring 2024 may be the greatest diva season in pop history — from Beyoncé and Taylor Swift to Billie Eilish

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Ariana Grande kicked off the season atop the Billboard 200 with “Eternal Sunshine” — scoring what was then the biggest opening week of any album in 2024 — while simultaneously notching a No.

1 debut on the Hot 100 with her current single “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love),” it’s been one boss lady after another running the music game.Indeed, before we even got to April Fool’s Day, we were also flipping our lace-front wigs over new albums by Kacey Musgraves (“Deeper Well”) and, of course, Beyoncé (“Cowboy Carter”).

And in the next few weeks, we’ll be girl-crushing over the latest LPs from both Taylor Swift (“The Tortured Poets Department,” out April 19) and Dua Lipa (“Radical Optimism,” due May 3).As if that weren’t enough to have us licking our lipstick, this week Billie Eilish — hot off of a Song of the Year Grammy and a Best Original Song Oscar for her “Barbie” ballad “What Was I Made For?” — announced that she would be joining the spring rush of pop’s leading ladies with her third studio album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” out May 17.Forget that total solar eclipse — the array of A-list starlets blasting through our galaxy in femme formation is truly unprecedented.In fact, with these half-dozen women owning 31 No.

1 hits and a staggering 67 Grammys between them, it’s shaping up to be the greatest diva season in pop history.Certainly, Grande, Musgraves and Mrs.