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Taylor Swift Just Did Something No Other Artist on Planet Earth Has Accomplished · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. There have been years
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  Speaker 1: where one artist or another was clearly the most dominant
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  Speaker 1: force in music, but perhaps none more crystal clear than
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, when Taylor Swift single handedly dominated nearly
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  Speaker 1: every single metric of the industry, from her record breaking
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  Speaker 1: towards to her phenomenal streaming numbers, Eden being crowned Times
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  Speaker 1: Person of the Year. So it's no surprise Taylor was
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  Speaker 1: just officially crowned the best selling recording artist on the planet.
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  Speaker 1: But what makes it remarkable is that it's for an
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  Speaker 1: unprecedented fourth time. The IFPI AKA the International Federation of
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  Speaker 1: the Phonographic Industry, crowned her their Global Recording Artist of
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  Speaker 1: the Year, which is determined by tallying streaming, physical sales,
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  Speaker 1: and live performance, something Taylor is claimed in twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty two, and now twenty twenty three. Pair of
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  Speaker 1: kpop acts seventeen and Stray Kids finished at number two
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  Speaker 1: and three respectively, with Drake coming in at number four
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  Speaker 1: and The Weekend rounding out the top five. That's direct
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  Speaker 1: from Hollywood,