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Because Eras Tour numbers have not been reported on a venue-to-venue basis. Otherwise she'd dominate this list.

True. Not everyone can be Taylor and not fizzle out after 3-4 albums. See: Gaga, Adele

Y'all saying this when Taylor never ventured outside of music for money unlike most of your favs No cheap makeup line, no perfumes, no fashion line, no liquor brand, no partnership with big pharma, no selling out to perform at weddings, no random side hustle. Just music, touring and merch (and her merch more affordable than Gaga's ). Y'all call her greedy for her variants as if Gaga doesn't also do a bunch of variants and bundles, with the difference being that she doesn't have the selling power of Taylor Like let's be real with ourselves.

Norah Jones has sold more units with less albums than Beyoncé ever will. Is she bigger than her? Anyway back to reality:

Well, first of all Red + 1989 + reputation + Lover = 118.2M units. So it looks like Adele isn't the only one! Second, again, the question wasn't who had the biggest album. Is Norah Jones the biggest female artist of the 2000s since she had the best-selling female album? There's a difference between having the biggest album and being the biggest artist. Adele doesn't even have half the units Taylor has, nor the longevity (see how 30 underperformed heavily). Let's be serious here. Bonus: Adele during 21 and 25 (2011 to 2017): Around 88M units Taylor during Eras era (2022 to 2025): Around 143M units

You must be confused, no one asked who had the biggest album. So you typed all that and didn't even answer the question. Do you think Adele is a bigger artist than Taylor?

"Isn't as big as you all think". Ok then, name us artists from the 21st century that are bigger than Taylor Swift if she isn't as big as we think. Go ahead, don't be shy!

Well yes, Taylor has 20+ years worth of music to stream, so she obviously has more tracks than newer artists. Not sure why we're acting like artists having big discographies automatically means you get more daily streams. If that were the case, where are all the other artists with 10+ studio albums and why is it that they can't get a third of Taylor's daily streams? This logic falls apart so easily

You just live in a bubble. What is your definitely of "worldwide" anyway? Love Story, for example, is the biggest western female song of the 21st century in China, which has a fourth of the global population Even on a western platform like Spotify, Love Story has more total streams (2.4B) than both Poker Face (2.2B) and Firework (1.6B), so...

And yet it's still in the top 15 most streamed songs every week in America

Both are solo mega smashes, which is hard to say for many girlies in this day and age!

Ophelia is still a mega smash, TLOAS is easily the biggest female album of 2025, and Taylor is by far the best-selling/most streamed female artist of the day, month and year. Even when she "loses" she still wins. Y'all get too cocky about the smallest victories (ie. a 10-month old album falling behind 5M daily streams on a given day)

They are "fan voted" on paper but past results clearly show they don't always give the award to whoever had more votes, it's sometimes extremely obvious and shameless too It depends on who attends + VMAs like to spread out the winners so everyone gets a prize.

Well... no Besides, why would we compare Mariah's entire music revenue against simply a tour for Taylor? If we include the money Taylor made from music consumption (which is more than any artist in history), it's not even close... She moved well over 170 million units this decade so far. That's at least $2.5 billion in direct revenue from sales and streams alone. Now imagine if we add touring and other music ventures/revenue sources

I don't expect ATRL to be objective about this, but like... The answer is factually Taylor