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popheads: the hottest in pop music. The latest and greatest in pop music, all in one subreddit. Founded 2015 · 3.2M members

3.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 11K upvotes, which works out to 3 per 1,000 members.

3peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.2Mmembers
11Kbest post
2.7Kmost comments
1.1Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

59% 23% 14%
Link 59% Video 23% Text 14% Question 4%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

[FRESH] 154 [NEWS] 153 [FRESH VIDEO] 132 [FRESH ALBUM] 86 [DISCUSSION] 54 [ARTICLE] 52 [DAILY] 51 [PERFORMANCE] 39 [CHART] 25 [FRESH EP] 25

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Dolly Parton, Queen of Country Music, Dies at 80

↑ 11K 💬 686 link 2026

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thanks kpop fans for creating fake Trump rally reservations, allegedly contributing to low turn out

↑ 10.3K 💬 391 link 2020

Taylor Swift posts about behind the scenes struggles with Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun

↑ 9.8K 💬 1.4K text 2019

Oliver Tree dies in helicopter crash in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

↑ 9.7K 💬 1.3K link 2026

Taylor Swift - folklore

↑ 7.8K 💬 2.7K link 2020

K-Pop Fans Take Over #whitelivesmatter Hashtag, Drown Out Racist Posts

↑ 6.8K 💬 271 link 2020

This is Carly Rae Jepsen, talking all things Side B with you. Ask me anything!

↑ 6.8K 💬 1.1K text 2020

Liam Payne, 31, found dead in Buenos Aires

↑ 6.7K 💬 1.1K link 2024

Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is officially No. 1 on the #Hot100 for the first time this week, 25 years after its release.

↑ 6.4K 💬 478 link 2019

Linkin Park Singer Chester Bennington Commits Suicide

↑ 6.2K 💬 421 link 2017

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/popheads, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/popheads?
r/popheads ("popheads: the hottest in pop music") describes itself this way: The latest and greatest in pop music, all in one subreddit. It was founded in 2015 and has 3.2M members.
How many members does r/popheads have?
r/popheads has about 3.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.1K of its posts; the biggest reached 11K upvotes, which is 3 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/popheads?
"Dolly Parton, Queen of Country Music, Dies at 80" reached 11K upvotes and 686 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/popheads.
What subreddits are similar to r/popheads?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile, r/blackcats.
What kind of posts do best on r/popheads?
Of the posts we hold, 59% are link posts and 23% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/popheads?
Across 1.1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 10:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes), Saturday at 03:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 21:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/popheads?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/popheads has 4.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 306 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/popheads, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.