base talk Billboard's Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century | #2 Taylor Swift

[Sabrina Carpenter]

the GP dragging Beyonce 

 

Taylor not getting the number 1 spot was worth it 

[Støned]

1. Eminem

2. Taylor Swift

3. Drake

4. Rihanna

5. Adele

6. Britney Spears

7. Bruno Mars

8. Lady Gaga

9. Beyonce

10. Justin Bieber

[Sabrina Carpenter]

Taylor

Rihanna

Eminem

Drake

Britney

Adele

Bruno

Gaga

Bieber

Others, etc.

Beyonce

 

[BionicWooHoo]

The fact that Mariah, Whitney, Madonna, and Janet are not in the top ten already invalidates this list unfortunately like....huh???

[Assassin]

9 minutes ago, Sabrina Carpenter said:

the GP dragging Beyonce 

 

Taylor not getting the number 1 spot was worth it 

Swifties =/= GP

[bielneira]

1 hour ago, Cruel Summer said:

It's not entirely based on quantitative metrics; if it were, Taylor would have been the #1 by quite a huge margin, especially if it focuses on the US. Given that the list is inclusive of concepts like impact, influence, cultural status, etc, I think Lana can easily be argued to be in the top ten.

Did you read what they said about her not being on the list? The answer is one: she doesn't have the numbers.

[awesomepossum]

IMA LET YOU FINISH

[Diet Pepsi]

I would place Addison Rae at #1 because you can't spell Billboard without AR

[Pheromosa]

I'm glad a lot of you won't be stepping foot near any billboard office

[_Fey]

Swiffers who surround themselves with other Swiffers convincing themselves that the GP is fuming on Taylor's behalf, bless them

 

 

 

[Nando_05]

1 hour ago, Loca said:

Who is this Drake guy/girl you all keep mentioning

I think is some kind of k-pop act, maybe? 

[The Music Industry]

8 hours ago, Gui Blackout said:

The article pretty much listing how Taylor is the biggest by every possible metric but they're placing her at #2 because... because?

 

 

Literally  

 

Like I said in the past, picking Beyoncé for #1 was the safer PR choice, and that's ultimately why they went with that. 

[Gorjesspazze9]

Omg Twitter is a war zone.  I thought yall were exaggerating, but now my algorithm is on one 

[Blade Runner]

40 minutes ago, BionicWooHoo said:

The fact that Mariah, Whitney, Madonna, and Janet are not in the top ten already invalidates this list unfortunately like....huh???

???????

 

21st century, honey. 

[TheBoss]

Surprised to not see The Weeknd here

[ImsoLOUD]

 

[Aramis]

Oh happy day 

[Cruel Summer]

1 hour ago, bielneira said:

Did you read what they said about her not being on the list? The answer is one: she doesn't have the numbers.

And this is literally a thread about what we would change about the list, and as such I said that since it is (as we literally know) not exclusively about the numbers, she can be argued to have earned a spot in my view. If we were just going to refer to what anyone said about why she didn't make it in Billboard's original assessment, then what point would the thread's question even have? And if it were entirely charts and numbers based, then what point would the entire list even have, since we'd basically just know it already ourselves?

[Soda Pop Queen]

Top 2 and she ain't #2!

 

But really, when you put things into perspective, no pop superstar encapsulates the 21st century thus far as much as Beyoncé. She's been here since the beginning, surviving a rapidly changing climate, always striving to be a voice to empower, constantly threading the fabric of pop culture, having an extremely successful 2 act career, continuously evolving as an artist, still able to shake the table, set new records, break old records, etc .all the while increasingly doing things on HER TERMS. I mean, she really has seen them come and seen them go since she was a teenaged girl leading Destiny's Child to being an elder stateswoman of pop at 43.

 

I've no doubt in my mind that Taylor would have wanted Beyoncé at #1 over anyone else, including herself. I mean she's influenced or inspired a lot of the people on the list.

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Soda Pop Queen

[Solar]

5 hours ago, gerardsuxx said:

So Female:

 

1. Beyoncé

2. Taylor

3. Rihanna 

4. Gaga

5. Britney

 

wait this eats so hard, ugh I love women 

[Alldeezy]

Rihanna for #1 

[bielneira]

32 minutes ago, Cruel Summer said:

And this is literally a thread about what we would change about the list, and as such I said that since it is (as we literally know) not exclusively about the numbers, she can be argued to have earned a spot in my view. If we were just going to refer to what anyone said about why she didn't make it in Billboard's original assessment, then what point would the thread's question even have? And if it were entirely charts and numbers based, then what point would the entire list even have, since we'd basically just know it already ourselves?

Well, you should be mad at Billboard, not me. They were the ones who said she doesn't have the numbers. If they are the ones who have that information in real time, and accurately, there's not much space to argue anything. We know you're probably mad for Taylor not being #1 to the point where you're creating excuses for Beyoncé to have taken that spot, but maybe - just maybe - she actually is the biggest one of this century according to charts and numbers for now. Meanwhile, Lana isn't and to consider her would just be illogical by the parameters of their list. That was the whole point of my comment. I hope you get it now.

[G.U.Y.]

Sixteen songwriters
Penning away
While I watch them buy me awards on the way

Edited 5 hours ago by G.U.Y.

[Blade Runner]

1 hour ago, Assassin said:

Swifties =/= GP

Actually, and given everything we've seen from the past 10 years: Swifties = GP. 

[BGKC]

P!nk was snubbed big time. The top 10 list is for the most part fine beyond that.