Taylor Swift’s new surprise album Fortnite is the biggest album of 2024, and it’s not even close. Billboard just released the hottest tracks in the United States, and Taylor has every top ten song.
Taylor released her new album just two weeks after Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter, which up until now – was seen as a frontrunner in the “Album Of The Year” race.
But after seeing these numbers, it looks like Beyonce will lose to Taylor Swift again.
Swift is one of the world’s best-selling artists, with 200 million records sold worldwide as of 2019. She is the most-streamed artist on Spotify, the highest-grossing female touring act, and the first billionaire with music as the main source of income. Six of her albums have opened with over one million sales in a week. The 2023 Time Person of the Year, Swift has appeared on lists such as Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time, Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Artists, and Forbes’ World’s 100 Most Powerful Women. Her accolades include 14 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, 40 American Music Awards, 39 Billboard Music Awards, and 23 MTV Video Music Awards; she has won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year, and the IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year a record four times each.
Beyonce has never won an Album Of The Year award in her more than 20 year career.
