Taylor Swift is ending her year with another accolade: The pop superstar was named Time magazine’s 2023 “Person of the Year,” beating out Barbie and King Charles III.
Swift, 33, “achieved a kind of nuclear fusion this year: shooting art and commerce together to release an energy of historic force,” the magazine said, despite the fact that her popularity has grown over the years.
Time said Swift was selected because she found a way to give people around the world hope in some seriously dark times.
“No one else on the planet today can move so many people so well,” Time said in its profile. “Achieving this feat is something we often chalk up to the alignments of planets and fates, but giving too much credit to the stars ignores her skill and her power.”
“This is the proudest and happiest I have ever felt, and the most creatively fulfilled and free I have ever been,” the artist stated in an interview with the magazine.
And yes, she even talked about her relationship with Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce for the first time publicly. The pair started hanging out after Kelce wore a friendship bracelet on his podcast, which Swift said was “metal as hell” and started to hang out after.
Regarding her appearances at NFL games that have helped some of them receive higher ratings, she stated, “I am just there to support Travis.” “I am not aware of whether I am annoying some dads, Brads, and Chads by being shown too much.”
According to research firm QuestionPro, Swift’s “Eras Tour” contributed to her incredible year, bringing in roughly $2.2 billion from ticket sales in North America alone. Also on Wednesday, StubHub released its 2023 “Year in Live Experiences” report revealing that the “Eras Tour” was StubHub’s biggest tour in the website’s history.
Swift is the dominant force in neighborhood movie theaters as well as Super Bowl-sized arenas.
According to AMC, the pop singer’s concert film, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” became the highest-grossing concert film domestically for an opening weekend, taking in roughly $96 million at the box office in the US and Canada.
Among all of that, Swift broke her own Spotify record by becoming the most-streamed artist in a single day in the streamer’s history, while “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day this year.
