Taylor Swift Sets Records as IFPI’s No. 1 Recording Artist For 2024

Taylor Swift smashed it last year.

The American pop superstar is crowned once more as the IFPI’s Biggest-Selling Global Recording Artist of the Year, while Australian acts are locked out of the trade body’s various year-end charts.

TayTay was the biggest-selling artist worldwide, based on streams, plus digital and physical sales (album and singles) across the calendar year, doing so for a record fifth time, and for the third consecutive year.

For context, since the award was created 12 years ago, no other artist has won three times; Drake and BTS each have a brace. Swift is, by the cold, hard numbers presented by the IFPI, the runaway No. 1 recording artist of the past decade. It’s not even close.

With her best-selling album release The Tortured Poets Department, the pop superstar dominates the IFPI’s Global Album Chart, Global Streaming Album Chart and Global Album Sales Chart. Swift has five of the top 10 on the Global Vinyl Album Chart, including the No. 1 spot.

“We are immensely proud to award the IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year Award to Taylor Swift for the fifth time, as she continues to redefine the limits of global success,” comments Victoria Oakley, CEO of the IFPI.

“This has been a huge year for Taylor, and it has been incredible to see the extent to which fans all over the world are connecting with her superb catalogue of music.”

Swift was, of course, in record-busting form in Australia when her The Eras Tour visited Sydney and Melbourne. Those seven shows broke pre-sale marks, and created never-before-seen action on the ARIA Charts, including sweeps of the albums chart top 5 and a lock-up of the entire singles chart top 10.

If you’re looking for Australian gold in the IFPI’s 2024 charts, good luck. K-pop, country and artists from the United States reign. Stray Kids, the K-pop boyband, has an Australian connection through singers Felix and Bang Chan, and land at No. 5 on the main tally with two titles impacting the Global Album Sales Chart: ATE (No. 5) and HOP (No. 6).  

The charts capture streaming, downloads and physical formats in every country directly from the participating record labels, which is then converted using the IFPI’s “unique methodology” to a single, global chart figure.

The results of the IFPI Global Single Chart and the winner of the IFPI Global Single Award for 2024 will be published later this week.

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