IFPI, the organisation that represents the recorded music business worldwide, has introduced Taylor Swift because the winner of IFPI’s 2022 International Recording Artist of the Yr Award – the third time that the celebrity has gained the award. No different artist has gained the award as many instances as Taylor Swift.
The distinctive award is calculated in accordance with an artist’s or group’s worldwide efficiency throughout digital and bodily music codecs throughout the yr, from streams to vinyl, and covers their total physique of labor.
This yr marks the tenth yr of the IFPI International Recording Artist of the Yr Award, with Taylor Swift having topped the chart greater than every other artist throughout that point (having gained in 2014, 2019 and 2022). Within the years between, Taylor Swift has been an everyday presence within the IFPI International Artist Chart – putting second in 2021 behind Ok-Pop sensation BTS, and charting within the High 3 in 2015, 2017 and 2020. The discharge of her latest album Midnights in October 2022 powered her return to the highest of the IFPI International Artist Chart.
Elsewhere within the International Artist Chart, BTS have been at #2 (their third consecutive yr within the High 3 following back-to-back wins in 2020 and 2021) and Drake at #3 along with his fifth High 3 look for the reason that chart started.
Frances Moore, Chief Govt, IFPI, mentioned: “It’s a nice pleasure to award the IFPI International Recording Artist Award to Taylor Swift for an unprecedented third time within the chart’s ten-year historical past. Taylor is a really magnificent worldwide star, who continues to develop and evolve as an artist while sustaining an extremely sturdy connection along with her followers world wide.
“It’s thrilling to see this yr’s International Recording Artist Chart replicate the more and more various spectrum of music obtainable to music followers at this time, with superstars from Latin America, Taiwan and South Korea in addition to the US, UK and Canada represented. File corporations proceed to work diligently in each nook of the globe to seek out and develop international stars and construct their profitable careers for the long-term.”
The IFPI International Recording Artist Chart continues to replicate the breadth of various artists discovering international success in at this time’s business. Puerto Rican celebrity Unhealthy Bunny landed at #4, the primary ever artist from Latin America to enter the High 5, and the best place ever achieved for an artist performing predominantly in Spanish.
At #9, Jay Chou grew to become the primary Taiwanese artist to look within the Chart, because of his enduring recognition throughout China and South-East Asia. It was additionally a formidable yr for South Korean acts, with extra artists than every other nationality showing within the High 10 for the primary time ever; BTS have been joined by SEVENTEEN and Stray Children charting at #6 and #7 respectively. Harry Kinds (#8) and Ed Sheeran (#10) represented the UK within the chart, whereas Canadian mega-star The Weeknd charted at #5.
