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- Taylor Swift
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Taylor Swift (USA) has been named International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) Global Recording Artist of the Year four times: in 2014, 2019 and 2022–23. Announced on 21 February 2024, Swift’s record-extending fourth IFPI award arrived hot on the heels of another stratospheric 12 months for the 34-year-old superstar.
Highlights of 2023 for Swift included the release of two more re-recorded albums – chart-toppers Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) – and the continued success of her 12th studio set Midnights (which shifted 3.2 million equivalent album units in the US alone in 2023). Furthermore, Swift racked up a staggering 26.1 billion streams on Spotify, on her way to dominating all the major streaming platforms in 2023, and the phenomenon that has become The Eras Tour, a globe-trotting, career-spanning, billion-dollar-plus-generating musical extravaganza, was confirmed as the highest-grossing music tour of all time many months before its scheduled conclusion in December 2024.
IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year Top 10 (2023): 1. Taylor Swift (USA); 2. SEVENTEEN (South Korea); 3. Stray Kids (South Korea); 4. Drake (Canada); 5. The Weeknd (Canada); 6. Morgan Wallen (USA); 7. TOMORROW X TOGETHER (South Korea); 8. NewJeans (South Korea); 9. Bad Bunny (Puerto Rico); 10. Lana Del Rey (USA). Taylor Swift was ranked third in 2015 and 2017 and second in 2020–21.
Drake (2016 and 2018) and BTS (2020-21) are two-time Global Recording Artist of the Year winners. One Direction (2013), Adele (2015) and Ed Sheeran (2017) have also received the accolade.
