Taylor Swift leads Billboard’s year-end Top Artists chart for 2024, for a record fourth time, while a bevy of superstars populate the rest of the year’s top 10 acts.
Swift was previously the year-end top artist in 2023, 2015 and 2009. She’s the only act to be the year-end top artist four times, since the category launched in 1981.
Billboard’s year-end Top Artists chart ranks the best-performing acts of the year based on activity on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart and all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, as well as Billboard Boxscore (touring), for the 2024 tracking period (charts dated Oct. 28, 2023, through Oct. 19, 2024).
Among the year’s top 10 artists are nine acts that have factored among the top 10 in previous years, and one artist who has never been on the 100-position deep Top Artists ranking until this year. Chart-toppers from the worlds of country, hip-hop, pop, rock and alternative mingle among this year’s top 10 biggest acts – all based on their weekly chart performance on the Hot 100 and Billboard 200, along with touring data if reported to Billboard Boxscore.
Read on for the entire top 10, and visit the full 100-position year-end Top Artists chart – along with nearly 500 year-end charts, in our year-end charts hub.
But first, the fine print: Billboard’s year-end music recaps represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts from Oct. 28, 2023, through Oct. 19, 2024. Rankings for Luminate-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology detail, and the October-October time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by Luminate. The Top Artists category ranks the best-performing acts of the year based on activity on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart and all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, as well as Billboard Boxscore (touring), for the 2024 tracking period.
