Taylor Swift Is Billboard’s Top Artist of 2024

Taylor Swift has done it again. The superstar rules Billboard’s year-end Top Artists chart for a second straight year, and the fourth time overall, after she loomed large on both the weekly Billboard 200 albums and Billboard Hot 100 songs chart during the 2024 chart year. Swift was previously the year-end top artist in 2023, 2015 and 2009. Swift is the only act to be the year-end top artist four times, since the category launched in 1981. Previously, only Swift and Adele were the year-end Top Artist three times.

During the 2024 chart year, Swift placed 11 albums on the Billboard 200 – the most of any act. Among those were a pair that spent time at No. 1: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and The Tortured Poets Department. The latter racked up 15 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list, becoming Swift’s album with the most weeks at No. 1, and tying Carole King’s 1971 release Tapestry for the third-most weeks at No. 1 among albums by women. Only Adele’s 21 (24 weeks in 2011-12) and the Whitney Houston-led soundtrack to The Bodyguard (20 weeks in 1992-93) have earned more weeks at No. 1 among women.

The Tortured Poets Department and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) finish as the Nos. 1 and 2 titles on the year-end Billboard 200 Albums recap. It’s the only time that the year’s top two albums are by the same act since 1967, when The Monkees’ More of the Monkees and its self-titled set were Nos. 1 and 2. (The Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in 1956.) Swift goes even further on the year-end Billboard 200 Albums recap, with Lover and Midnights at Nos. 9 and 10, marking the first time that an act has finished with four of the year’s top 10 albums.

Swift is also the year’s top female artist for a third consecutive year (the most consecutive years an artist has been the year’s top female act), while Morgan Wallen and Fuerza Regida are the top male, and top duo/group artists of 2024 for a second year running.

Chappell Roan is 2024’s top new artist, following a breakthrough year that saw her debut studio album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess climb to No. 2 on the weekly Billboard 200 along with a trio of top 40-charting hits on the weekly Hot 100, including her first top 10, “Good Luck, Babe!” (peaking at No. 4 in September).

Billboard’s year-end music recaps represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts from Oct. 28, 2023, through Oct. 19, 2024. Rankings for Luminate-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology detail, and the October-October time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by Luminate. The Top Artists and Top New Artists categories rank the best-performing acts, and new acts, of the year based on activity on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100, as well as Billboard Boxscore (touring), for the 2024 tracking period.

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