But in Norway, where pop music tastes are less rigid, he's a pop star.
But like it or not, she is a pop star - so what is her new life like?
The card may not have a pop star's name attached to it, but it also won't carry as many fees.
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The music she's making now is too challenging and mature for a pop star career, so she has some decisions to make.
"It's impossible to predict who will be a pop star forever, " says Wayne Isaak, executive vice president of music and talent for VH1.
Li, 30, takes the stage dressed like a pop star and starts exhorting the crowd via a thundering sound system: "You need passion!"
The company said it hopes to leverage the audience of a pop star who has sold 15 million albums and boasts 30 million Twitter followers.
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In those days promoting a pop star followed a well-worn groove.
The show has been around long enough that it has become all too obvious that winning American Idol is no guarantee of becoming a pop star.
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Every small child wants to be a pop star, but what do you do if you are grown-up, tone-deaf with as much rhythm as a bowl of apples?
The singing was for a large part, painfully out of tune and we were fed the usual unhealthy diet of "how to make a Pop Star in 13 weeks".
After all, he enjoyed the adoration of women all over the world, had a pop star girlfriend and soon-to-be wife, and had to fend off advertisers who clamored for his endorsement services.
The episode is likely to cause further embarrassment for the University of Wales, after an earlier BBC investigation revealed a college offering its courses in Malaysia was run by a pop star with two bogus degrees.
The charity claims Shaikh has always maintained he went to China to start a career as a pop star, despite no history of public singing, having previously lived in Poland where he tried to set up an airline.
According to unnamed sources, Justin Timberlake, a pop star signed to a Sony -controlled label, will be part of a Super Bowl promotion with Pepsi Feb. 3 that will involve free distribution of as many as 1 billion songs through Amazon.com 's DRM-free music store.
According to unnamed sources, Justin Timberlake, a pop star signed to a Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people )-controlled label, will be part of a Super Bowl promotion with Pepsi (nyse: PEP - news - people ) Feb. 3 that will involve free distribution of as many as 1 billion songs through Amazon.com 's (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) DRM-free music store.
The Los Angeles couple, Blair and Jeff a former pop star and a Homeland Security investigator are separated by 16 years and a temperamental abyss.
An earlier BBC Wales' Week In Week Out investigation in 2010 showed a Malaysian pop star with a bogus doctorate ran a college offering UoW courses.
For Ms. Watts, working at a store with a pop-star clientele could help kick-start her singing career.
Li is something of a classical pop star in his home country, with screaming fans regularly attending his concerts.
Oddness overshadowed his real, hard-won achievements: world adulation for a black pop star, the birth of video celebrity, and millions of dollars given to black causes.
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Progress on this has been slow, but this week Islamia School in London, set up by Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens, a 1960s pop star), became Britain's first state-financed Muslim school.
But Norwich-born Dennis, who also had a stream of hits in the 1990s as a solo pop star, has not let success go to her head with her quiet determination to succeed and strong work ethic.
British acts are massively successful overseas, at a time when the US seems to be struggling to produce a new mainstream pop star.
"I remember the hospitality was pretty impressive, so, if I'm honest, my first priority will be the buffet, then the gig, then doing a bit of pop star spotting!"
Hannah Montana, which stars the daughter of country crooner Billy Ray Cyrus as a high school pop star who hides her real identity, was the second-most-watched show on cable the week of June 24.
Rather than wait for a potential revelation, the pop star chose to get ahead of the news with a more positive story.
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As the sun rose, a man crouched on the sidewalk and painted a portrait of the pop star, who died suddenly on Thursday.
Knapp was a star Christian pop singer from 1994 to 2002, selling a million records between 1998 and 2002 and performing in churches across the country.
Screen actress Jennifer Lopez has a debut album -- "On the 6" arrives June 22, and includes a duet with Latin pop star Marc Anthony.
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