{"id":290616,"date":"2026-02-18T22:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/290616\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:34:08","slug":"taylor-swift-bags-best-selling-artist-of-2025-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/290616\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift bags best-selling artist of 2025 award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p>18 Feb, 2026 07:28 PM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Taylor Swift was named the biggest-selling global artist of 2025 by IFPI, her fourth consecutive win. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">US pop star Taylor Swift was crowned the biggest-selling global artist of 2025, industry body IFPI has announced, the fourth consecutive year and sixth time she has claimed its annual prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The 36-year-old\u2019s success was turbo-charged by the October release of her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, which<br \/>\n         set several streaming records, as well as the release of a docuseries about her record-breaking The Eras tour.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"mXhlnsAMAlHgsvrv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201c2025 was another landmark year [for Swift], driven by exceptional worldwide engagement across streaming, physical and digital formats with the release of her 12th album &#8230; and the documentary of her tour,\u201d IFPI said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mXhlnsAMAlHgsvrv\" style=\"display:none\">The body, which represents the recorded music industry worldwide, noted Swift had now won its top annual artist prize as many times as all other artists combined over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mXhlnsAMAlHgsvrv\" style=\"display:none\">IFPI hands out the Global Artist of the Year Award after calculating an artist\u2019s or group\u2019s worldwide sales across streaming, downloads and physical music formats during the calendar year and covers their entire body of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 18 Feb, 2026 07:28 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[836,696,4765,1628,2346,21933,29805,161117,7800,430,23552,9688,13114,156,3232,1437,161118,2454,111,139,69,1118,10512,4730,2737,11208,163,2044,379],"class_list":{"0":"post-290616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-836","9":"tag-announced","10":"tag-annual","11":"tag-artist","12":"tag-award","13":"tag-bags","14":"tag-bestselling","15":"tag-biggestselling","16":"tag-body","17":"tag-celebrities","18":"tag-claimed","19":"tag-consecutive","20":"tag-crowned","21":"tag-entertainment","22":"tag-fourth","23":"tag-global","24":"tag-ifpi","25":"tag-industry","26":"tag-new-zealand","27":"tag-newzealand","28":"tag-nz","29":"tag-of","30":"tag-prize","31":"tag-sixth","32":"tag-star","33":"tag-swift","34":"tag-taylor","35":"tag-time","36":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}