Taylor Swift named No. 2 greatest pop star of the 21st century

Nov 28, 2024, 11:22 am

Taylor Swift has been named the second greatest pop star of the 21st century.

On November 26, Billboard crowned the singer as No. 2 in their ranking of the greatest pop stars of the 21st century, saying that Swift was “able to forcefully gravitationally bend culture to her will and become one of the world’s biggest undisputed pop stars, despite her eight-year late start in country music.”

“She is the only person to ever win album of the year at the Grammys four times. She has the second-most Billboard Hot 100 entries of all time,” Billboard said. “At just 34 years old, her catalog has inspired college courses all over the world that treat her written word with the same level of analysis as Wordsworth, and her negotiations with Spotify and Apple Music for fairer streaming rates or the playbook she’s still writing on how to re-release old music to new blockbuster returns – will continue to have reverberations throughout the industry, for longer than we can probably even currently imagine.”

Meanwhile, Billboard has been gradually unveiling its ranking in a series of articles.

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