{"id":64770,"date":"2023-12-22T12:06:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/12\/22\/heres-every-year-end-billboard-top-artist\/"},"modified":"2023-12-22T12:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T17:06:35","slug":"heres-every-year-end-billboard-top-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/12\/22\/heres-every-year-end-billboard-top-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Every Year-End Billboard Top\u00a0Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tIt\u2019s the biggest honor that an act can claim on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s charts each year: the coveted No. 1 spot on the annual Top Artists recap.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs of 2023, the category ranks the year\u2019s best-performing acts based on activity on the Billboard 200<\/a> albums chart and the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> songs survey, as well as Billboard Boxscore, which recaps touring data.<\/p>\n

\n\tTaylor Swift<\/a> rules the 2023 Top Artists tally<\/a>, making history in the process: As the superstar previously reigned in 2015 and 2009, she is the first act to finish at No. 1 in three distinct decades, dating to the award\u2019s origin in the year-end 1981 Billboard<\/em> issue.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFurther demonstrating Swift\u2019s sustained success on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s charts, the span from her first Top Artists triumph in 2009 to her latest in 2023 marks the longest in the retrospective\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Swift and Adele are the only acts to achieve No. 1 successes on Top Artists three times each, as Adele won in 2011, 2012 and 2016.<\/p>\n

\n\tEight other artists have each earned the honor of leading Top Artists twice: 50 Cent (2003, 2005), Chris Brown (2006, 2008), Destiny\u2019s Child (2000, 2001), Drake (2018, 2021), Garth Brooks (1992, 1993), New Kids on the Block (1989, 1990), Post Malone (2019, 2020) and Usher (1998, 2004).<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift\u2019s latest No. 1 finish on Top Artists follows Bad Bunny\u2019s rule in 2022, when he became the first leading act that primarily records Spanish-language music.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom the first list in 1981 to 2023, browse every act that has dominated the annual Top Artists chart, as revealed in every year-end Billboard<\/em> issue, encompassing superstars in pop, country, R&B\/hip-hop, rock and more.<\/p>\n