Taylor Swift makes Beyoncé "smell the smoke", fans are happy, accidentally helping England get rich

After a long wait, Taylor Swift finally got her revenge on Beyoncé. This news is making the singer's fan community happy as if they had found gold, even celebrating loudly.

Recently, the prestigious music magazine Billboard announced the list of Top Artists Of The 21st Century, attracting great attention from fans around the world. The artist holding the leading position in this list is certainly not too unfamiliar to the audience and is completely in line with the majority's predictions.

Accordingly, Taylor Swift officially holds the No. 1 position on the list of "Top Artists of the 21st Century" according to Billboard. The magazine said that the 35-year-old singer was ranked in the top position based on her achievements on the Billboard 200 album chart and the Billboard HOT 100 song chart from the beginning of 2000 to the end of 2024.

"After Taylor Swift debuted on the Billboard charts in 2006, she has scored 14 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 and 12 No. 1 songs on the Hot 100 during the first 25 years of the century. She has also achieved 59 songs in the Hot 100 top 10, the most of all time for a woman. Additionally, she has spent 86 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the most for a solo artist," Billboard reported.

Along with the results, Billboard also quoted Taylor Swift's sharing in 2009: "When I was 10 years old, I watched a special about Faith Hill and how she came to Nashville and made it in country music. I really loved what I did so much that there wasn't a moment in my day that I didn't think about some aspect of it, and there wasn't a moment when I felt like I knew everything I needed to know about the music industry."

The remaining 4 positions in the Top 5 belong to: Drake, Rihanna, Post Malone and Eminem. These positions do not seem to cause much debate from the audience, because these are all stars who have made outstanding contributions to the music industry in the past century.

Notably, Beyoncé had previously "beaten" Taylor Swift to take the top spot on the list of "The Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century" also published by Billboard. However, in the recent list of "Top Artists of the 21st Century", JAY-Z's wife caused a stir when she only reached 7th place.

However, this is completely understandable because the ranking criteria of the two lists above are completely different. With the list of "Top Artists of the 21st Century" just announced, Taylor Swift's leading position is because the female singer's digital music achievements in the past century are so outstanding.

In other news, revenue from music streaming services in the UK rose nearly 8% to around £2 billion ($2.5 billion) last year, according to the Digital Retail and Entertainment Association (ERA). Vinyl album sales rose 10.5% to £196 million ($241.7 million).

ERA chief executive Kim Bayley said 2024 was a banner year for the music industry, driven by the growth of streaming and vinyl, helping the industry hit all-time records in both value and volume.

According to the chart, the best-selling album in the UK was Taylor Swift's " The Tortured Poets Department", with 783,820 copies sold, including nearly 112,000 on vinyl. The best-selling single in the UK last year was Noah Kahan's "Stick Season", with total sales of 2 million copies.

CD sales in the UK fell to just over £126 million ($155.3 million), while subscription sales on digital music platforms, which are set to become more important by 2024, played a key role in the growth of the entertainment market.

Despite this, many artists have expressed concerns about low royalties from streaming services, with leading music streaming platform Spotify facing a lawsuit in the US last year.

Taylor Swift lost the title of "Great Pop Star of the 21st Century" to Beyoncé Hoàng Phúc21:00:41 04/12/2024Over the past few months, Billboard magazine's selection of the 25 greatest pop stars of the 21st century has attracted great attention. In the end, Beyoncé was honored, beating runner-up Taylor Swift.