The 2023 Billboard Music Awards are set to take place on Sunday, November 19, and it looks like it’ll be yet another awards coronation for Taylor Swift. According to the combined predictions of Gold Derby users as of this writing, she’s the favorite to win Top Artist. It would be her third victory in that race, which would tie Drake‘s record for the most in the category’s history.
These awards are strictly a popularity contest, but they’re not decided by fans voting online like the MTV Video Music Awards or the American Music Awards. Instead, they’re decided by the same metrics that are used to generate the weekly Billboard charts, like album sales, song sales, radio airplay and streaming. And during the eligibility period (November 19, 2022 through October 21, 2023), Swift has been nothing if not successful. It might, in fact, be the most dominant period of her career.
Within the dates in question, Swift achieved two different chart-topping albums: “Midnights” and “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version),” with a third number-one album, “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” coming just after the eligibility cutoff. Not only that, her “Eras Tour” turned into a global concert blockbuster and helped boost her earlier albums “Lover,” “Folklore” and “Reputation” on the charts as well. Additionally, she topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with “Anti-Hero” and “Cruel Summer,” with an additional top-five hit in “Karma” featuring Ice Spice.
Ranked second in our odds is Morgan Wallen, and if anyone gave Swift a run for her money on the charts, it was him. The country singer didn’t have as many hit singles and albums as Swift, but he dominated with the ones he had, spending 16 weeks at number-one with his album “One Thing at a Time” and another 16 weeks on top with his single “Last Night,” which made history as the longest chart-topping run for a non-collaboration. Can he dethrone the current queen of the music industry?
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