TAYLOR SWIFT'S RECORDED MUSIC Produced MORE Cash Universally THAN Some other Craftsman IN 2022

IFPI, the worldwide recorded music exchange body, has today (February 22) named 20 craftsmen, all together, that make up its Worldwide Recording Craftsman Diagram for 2022 - with Quick at the top.

This outline, as indicated by IFPI, is "the just [global] positioning to precisely quantify utilization across all configurations (counting streaming organizations, advanced and actual collection and singles deals) and all nations".

And afterward the vital piece: "It is weighted in view of the overall worth of every technique for utilization."

What that implies practically speaking: the IFPI's Main 20 rundown (which you can find in full beneath) uncovers, all together, the specialists who produced the most cash last year worldwide across streaming, download, and actual record deals (consolidated) in 2022.

It is right here:

Taylor Quick

BTS

Drake

Awful Rabbit

The Weeknd

SEVENTEEN

Stray Children

Harry Styles

Jay Chou

Ed Sheeran

Eminem

Kanye West

YoungBoy At absolutely no point ever Broke In the future

Kendrick Lamar

Lil Child

Billie Eilish

Post Malone

Juice WRLD

The Beatles

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Taylor Quick surely had an enormous year.

As per a General Music Gathering official statement gave on December 22nd, her Midnights sold more than 6 million collection reciprocals worldwide across only three months in 2022, after its delivery on October 21.

Midnights didn't, notwithstanding, out-stream 2022's other greatest collections on the planet's biggest market.

Midnights' US on-request sound streams in 2022, per Luminate information, sat at 1.791 billion plays, behind any semblance of Harry Styles' Harry's Home (1.836 billion), Morgan Wallen's Hazardous: The Twofold Collection (2.915 billion), and The Weeknd's The Features (2.366 billion).

Way out in front, as far as streams in the US last year, was Terrible Rabbit's Un Verano Sin Ti, with an astounding 4.266 billion on-request sound streams - over two times the same play-count of Midnights (see beneath).

There are a few obvious factors:

1. The aforementioned Top 3 artists all have significant catalog history on mainstream pop charts around the world (especially, in the US) over the past decade. This means they all have a vast volume of catalog (and catalog listening) on streaming services that would have only been uplifted by their most recent releases. Midnights is Swift’s tenth studio album to date, for example, and her ninth US No.1 album. Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti, by contrast, is only the Puerto Rican artist’s second Billboard 200 No.1 album, and his third Top 3. One killer stat: According to that Universal Music Group announcement issued on December 22 last year, combined global calendar-year streams of Taylor Swift’s catalog, at that point in 2022, stood at a massive 36.6 billion plays;
2. Remember: the IFPI list is based specifically on “value” i.e. revenue generated both at retail and on streaming services… and Taylor Swift did exceptionally well with Midnights when it came to physical album sales. The record sold over 1.8 million copies (i.e. real sales across download and physical) in the US last year, says Luminate – including 640,000 from CD sales, 219,000 from download sales, and a stunning 945,000 from vinyl sales. It was the first album to sell over 1 million physical albums in the US since 2015;
3. Taylor Swift had bigger and better success than ever before in one specific, huge global market that has traditionally been hard to penetrate for non-domestic artists: China. According to Universal, Midnights was the fastest-selling record by a ‘western’ artist in history in the territory.

Another very interesting trend revealed within IFPI’s new artist chart: Four of the Top 10 biggest acts globally in 2022 were Asian artists.

Three of them were boy-bands hailing from South Korea – the country with more artists in the IFPI’s Top 10 than any other.

Alongside BTS at No.2, Korean artists on the list include SEVENTEEN (a boy-band formed by Pledis Entertainment) at No.6, as well as Stray Kids (another boy-band, who were formed by JYP Entertainment via a televised competition in 2017).

The other Asia-based entry in IFPI’s Top 10 for 2022 is Jay Chou (No.9), the Taiwanese pop star who enjoys enduring popularity across China and South-East Asia.

There were two British acts in the Top 10: Harry Styles at No.8, and Ed Sheeran at No.10.

(Going back to the importance of a voluminous and popular streaming catalog on this list… Ed Sheeran didn’t release a new studio album in 2022, but still made the Top 10.)

Frances Moore, Chief Executive, IFPI, said: “It is a great pleasure to award the IFPI Global Recording Artist Award to Taylor Swift for an unprecedented third time in the chart’s ten-year history.

“Taylor is a truly magnificent international star, who continues to grow and evolve as an artist whilst maintaining an incredibly strong connection with her fans around the world.

“It is exciting to see this year’s Global Recording Artist Chart reflect the increasingly diverse spectrum of music available to music fans today, with superstars from Latin America, Taiwan and South Korea as well as the US, UK and Canada represented.

“Record companies continue to work diligently in every corner of the globe to find and develop global stars and build their successful careers for the long-term.”