After a decade of providing the best of the best in drag performance, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars decided to shake things up — for better or for worse— with their anniversary installment of the franchise.
For All Stars 10, fans were treated to a super-sized cast of past Drag Race performers, featuring 18 queens from all the way back to season two, up through this year’s season 17. Splitting off into three brackets and competing in the “Tournament of All Stars,” the queens sang, acted, designed, danced and most importantly lip-synched their way through the competition, hoping to be one of the elite few to make it to the final showdown.
On last Friday’s (July 18), eight of the remaining queens faced off in the show’s favorite new format — the bracket-style Lip Sync LaLaPaRuza — until only season seven runner-up Ginger Minj and season 14 favorite Jorgeous were left. After a showdown to The Weather Girls’ iconic anthem “It’s Raining Men,” RuPaul declared that Ginger Minj was America’s Next Top All Star, granting her the crown and her cash prize of $200,000.
While the fan reaction to Minj’s victory has been decidedly mixed (and in some cases downright hostile), one thing that fans could agree on was that All Stars 10 boasted some truly excellent lip syncs. From moving performances to beloved queer classics, to jaw-dropping feats from a few of the season’s standout queens, this season of All Stars delivered the goods when it came time for its tried-and-true format.
But which lip syncs exceeded expectations, and which ones didn’t make an impact? Below, Billboard takes a look at all 18 lip sync performances from RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 and ranks them from worst to best.
