Taylor Swift took home the artist of the year, pop artist of the year, and favorite tour style at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards on Monday night, capping off an era to remember for the icon.
While Taylor was not at the event, she shared a touching virtual speech. She began, “It’s completely up to you to choose how you spend your time, what concerts you want to go to, what music you want to make the soundtrack to your life.
“To anyone who has included me in those choices, I’m so, so, so thankful for that. We have so many exciting things ahead of us. I’m continuing on with the tour and most importantly I have a brand new album called The Tortured Poets Department, which comes out on April 19.”
She concluded: “Thank you for voting for me for this incredible honor, artist of the year. I’m so blown away, I’m so thankful and I just can’t wait to keep having fun with you guys because we have a lot of exciting things coming up.”
In other Taylor news, she recently notched another chart accomplishment when she passed The Beatles for most weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 in the last 60 years.
On ta February edition of the chart Swift had three albums in the top 10, which added to her cumulative total of weeks in the top 10 to 384—across all her 16-top 10-charting albums combined. She was in the top 10 on the list with three former No. 1s: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) at No.6, Lover at No.7 and Midnights at No.9. Billboard noted that though all three albums were in the top 10 in one week, they contributed three weeks to her overall total.
Since the Billboard 200 combined its separate mono and stereo album charts in August of 1963, Swift now has the most weeks in the top 10. She moved past The Beatles, who have a total of 382 weeks in the top 10 across their 32 top 10-charting albums.
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