1.   Associates describe him as a deft manipulator of the media and of the young women he turns into pop superstars.

2.   And Pepsi just inked a long-term marketing deal with pop superstar Britney Spears.

3.   But even with the pop superstar Janet Jackson in the leading role, it received mixed reviews and was only a modest commercial success.

4.   Citing irreconcilable differences, Lisa Marie Presley filed Thursday for divorce from pop superstar Michael Jackson.

5.   Even pop superstars are taking part.

6.   He tours and frequently performs with his daughter, pop superstar Bonnie Raitt.

7.   Pop superstars abound on this uneven anthology of previously released Christmas music.

8.   Six years after his first United States tour, West African pop superstar Salif Keita says he still faces a battle in getting his music accepted in this country.

9.   The two other new works on this program at the Joyce Theater were choreographed to recordings by the pop superstars Gloria Estefan and Willie Colon.

10.   Widely held to be the greatest singer in American pop history, Sinatra was also the first modern pop superstar.