Taylor Swift has been named the 2024 Global Recording Artist of the Year by the IFPI, marking the fifth time she has won the honor from the organization representing the recorded music industry.
The megastar’s “The Tortured Poets Department” topped all four IFPI charts — Global Album, Global Vinyl Album, Global Streaming Album and Global Album Sales, the IFPI said in a statement Tuesday.
It took a strong lead on the 2024 Global Album Sales chart, which counts physical purchases and full album downloads, with 5.6 million units sold. K-pop group ENHYPEN’s “Romance: Untold” came in second with 3.4 million units sold.
Swift’s record-breaking “Eras” tour, the first to surpass $1 billion in revenue, has fueled interest in her past records, with several of them charting on the 2024 vinyl and streaming album charts, IFPI said.
“This has been a huge year for Taylor, and it’s incredible to see how much fans around the world have connected with her incredible catalog of music,” IFPI CEO Victoria Oakley said.
Swift was first named IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year in 2014 and then in 2019, 2022 and 2023, the most times for any performer since the award was introduced 12 years ago.
The prize, awarded to whoever tops the IFPI Global Artist Chart, is calculated by looking at an artist or group’s or band’s worldwide sales of streams, downloads and physical music formats during the calendar year and covers their entire body of work, according to the organization.
The second and third places on that chart for 2024 were taken by Canadian rapper Drake and K-pop group Seventeen, respectively.
