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Chained To The Rhythm: The Month In Pop

Noah Kahan’s Not-That-Unlikely Everyman Stardom

3:16 PM EDT on May 25, 2026

Patrick McCormack

How famous can a musician become and still seem like he isn't? How much musical precedent must exist — how many artists like you, coming before you — before an artist's ascent is no longer "unlikely"? These are the questions Noah Kahan's The Great Divide had me asking.