Taylor Swift tops the worldwide gross sales charts once more | EUROtoday

US pop star Taylor Swift reached the highest of the worldwide gross sales charts in 2025 for the fourth time in a row and for the sixth time general. The 36-year-old earned probably the most cash from her publications final yr and gained the “Global Artist of the Year” award, stated the International Phono Industry Association (IFPI) in London.

They have been adopted by: the South Korean boy band Stray Kids, the Canadian rapper Drake, the Canadian singer The Weeknd and the Puerto Rican US singer Bad Bunny. Swift beforehand held the highest place in 2014, 2019 and from 2022 to 2024.

According to IFPI, Swift’s renewed success was boosted by the discharge of her twelfth album entitled “The Life of a Showgirl” in October and the documentary sequence accompanying her tour “The End of an Era” (Disney+). Her publicly celebrated romance with soccer star Travis Kelce most likely did not harm gross sales both.

The most likely best-known singer-songwriter of her technology and the skilled athlete met on the tour. The two are actually engaged and need to get married in the summertime.

The Global Artist of the Year Award is calculated primarily based on an artist or group’s worldwide gross sales throughout streaming, downloads and bodily codecs within the calendar yr. The affiliation didn’t disclose how a lot the proceeds have been.

The IFPI stated 2025 was as soon as once more a “milestone year,” “marked by exceptional global engagement across streaming, physical and digital formats.” IFPI chief govt Victoria Oakley described Swift’s renewed success as a “truly historic achievement”.

The IFPI describes itself because the voice of the worldwide music business and claims to characterize greater than 8,000 report labels.