TOP 30 Artist of the Year!!
08. Pharell Williams
Singles:
"Happy"
"Marilyn Monroe"
"Come Get It Bae"
"Gust of Wind"
Notes:
- GIRL debut at #2 on the Billboard 200, selling 113,000 copies. The album sold over 1.9million arround the world.
- Happy end at #1 Billboard Hot 100 year end chart at the US, & It became the best selling single worldwide.
- Happy cross 400 million views at youtubeduring 2014.
- The Dear G I R L tour is an ongoing European concert tour, in support of his second studio album, G I R L
- Pharell was the new coach for the seventh season of The Voice.
- Pharell reank 2014 Forbes celebrity 100 at #38 earning $22 million
- Pharell is nominated for the 2015 Grammy Awards with a total of 4 noms.
Awards:
- 3 Grammy Awards
- 2 BET Awards
07. Iggy Azalea
Singles:
"Fancy"
"Black Widow"
"Beg for It"
As featured artist:
"Problem"
"No Mediocre"
"Booty"
Notes:
- The New Classic debut at #3 at Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 52,000 copies, the album osld arround 700k world wide.
- The New Classic became the 2nd best selling rap album in 2014 & best selling album by a female raper at the US.
- Reclassified was a repack of The New Classic With New Songs, selling 14,155 units on it first week.
- Billboard top new Artist of the year, & #6 Billbaord top Artist of 2014.
- Fancy end at #4 Billboard year end chart & it was one of the best selling singles of 2014.
- Fancy cross 400 million views, Black Widow reach 190 million views & Work cross 120 million views at Vevo.
- "Fancy" was named Billboard's top Song of the Summer for 2014
- Fancy became the most streamed song at Spotify at the USA in 2014.
- The New Classic Tour perfomes ta varios festivalas at the US, Canada & Europe & she announce The Great Escape tour, Iggy's first arena tour for 2015.
- Iggy joined The Beatles as the only acts to rank at numbers one and two simultaneously.
- Iggy Nick Young current boyfriend became the Image of Forever 21 for 2014 campain.
- Iggy VS Hip-Hop, she had several fights with a lot of hip hop such as Snoop Dogg, Azealia Banks & more.
- Iggy is nominated with a tootal of 4 for the 2015 Grammy Awards
Awards:
- 2 American Music Awards
- 1 Peoples Choice Award
- 1 ARIA Award
- 2 Teen Choice Awards
06. Ariana Grande
Singles:
"Problem"
"Break Free"
"Love Me Harder"
"Santa Tell Me"
As featured artist:
"Bang Bang"
Notes:
- My Everything debut at #1 at billboard 200 with over over 160,000 copies in first-week, the album sold arroun 1.2 million world wide.
- Problem #9 at Billboard Hot 100 Year End chart.
- Ariana Grande named #7 Billboard top Artist of 2014.
- Problem Cross 350 million views, Break Free reach 240 million views & Bang Bang cross 190 million views at VEVO during 2014.
- Ariana Grande spend 34 straight weeks in the Hot 100 top ten, & she had for 1 week 3 songs at the top 10.
- Grande confirmed that she is dating rapper Big Sean.
- Arian comfirmed she would do a world tour calledd the Honey moon tour in 2015.
- Ariana get 2 Grammy Award noms
Awards:
- 1 MTV Video Music Award
- 2 MTV Europe Music Awards
- 2 Teen Choice Awards
- 1 iHeart Radio Award
- 1 MTV Vide Music Award Japan
- 1 NRJ Award
- 1 Peoples Choice Award
- 1 Radio Disney Award
05. One Direction
Singles:
"Midnight Memories"
"You & I"
"Steal My Girl"
"Night Changes"
Notes:
- Four was released on November with sales of 387,000. One Direction thus became the first musical group to have each of their first four studio albums debut at No. 1, the album sold over 2.1 million World Wide.
- Midnight Memories, released in 2013 sold 1.7 million during 2014, one direction became the best selling group of 2014.
- Billboard Top Artist of the Year
- Midnight Memories is #4 Billboard 200 year end chart.
- Where We Are Tourgrossed $290 million in sales after 69 performances with total attendance of 3.4 million. It became the 13th highest grossing concert tour of all time & biggest tour of 2014.
- You & I cross 120 million views at Vevo during 2014.
- One Direction rank #28 Forbes celebirty with $75 million.
- One Direction release Where We Are - The Concert Film, second concert film for the band
- One Direction release their 1st official book.
- MTV Named One direction biggest star of 2014.
Awards:
3 American Music Awards
2 Brit Awards
4 MTV Europe Muisc Awards
7 Teen Choice Awards
1 ARIA Award
1 Peoples Choice Award
2 Kid Choice Awards
2 NRJ Awards
04. Ed Sheeran
Singles:
"Sing"
"Don't"
"Thinking Out Loud"
"Make It Rain"
Notes:
- X album debut at #1 at the UK d 180,000 copies in its first week of release to become the fastest-selling album of 2014 WITH 1.6 million, at the US the album sold 210,000 copies during first week & the album became one of the best selling albums of the year with more than 3.8 million world wide.
- Thinking Out Loud reach 100 million views at Youtube
- Ed perfomed all over the world with the X tour with sold out arenas, the tour would end until mid 2015.
- Spotify named Sheeran the most-streamed artist in the world for his accumulating more than 860 million streams in 2014
- Ed recieve 3 Grammy nomns for the 2015 show
Awards:
1 MTV Video Music Award
2 Teen Choice Awards
2 Peoples Choice Awards
1 BBC Radio Award
03. Beyonce
Singles:
"XO"
"Drunk in Love"
"Partition"
"Pretty Hurts"
"Flawless"
"7/11"
Notes:
- Beyonce visual album released in 2014 sold 2.3 million albums world wide during 2014.
- Beyonce album names #2 at Billboard 200 year end chart
- Billboard names Beyonce #3 Top Artist of the Year.
- Drunk In Love reach 240 million views at vevo chanel.
- Forbes named Beyonce top celebirty of 2014 with $115 million.
- Time listed her among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014 earning Beyonce first cover.
- After 132 dates The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour end earning $229 million since 2013
- Beyonce & Jay Z did a Stadium tour calledOn the Run Tour where they filmed the HBO special that aired in September. The Tour earnred $109 million.
- One of the BiggesT Stories of 2014 were Solange elevator fight against Jayz & fake rumours of Beyonce & Jay getting divoreced.
- Beyonce recive the 2014 Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the 2014 Video Music Awards.
- Beyonce is the most nominated artist for the 2015 Grammy Awards with 6 noms.
Awards:
2 American Music Awards
3 MTV Video Music Award
1 MTV Europe Music Award
2 BET Awards
02. Taylor Swift
Singles:
"Shake It Off"
"Blank Space"
Notes:
- 1989 became the best selling album at the Us and send best selling album World Wide with over 5 million arround the world.
- 1989 sold 1,287,000 copies during the first week of release and made Swift the first artist to have three albums sell one million or more copies in a week.
- Billboard #4 Top Artist of the year
- Shake it Off #13 Billboard Hot 100 Year end chart
- Shake it off reach 400 million views & Blank Spacre cross 300 million views at VEVO.
- Taylor Swift Rank #18 at Forbes Celebrity list earning $64 million in 2014.
- Taylor was part of the 2014 movie The Giver.
- Taylor talk about Katy Perry at Rolling Stone magazine, making one of the biggesr fights of 2014.
- The RED Tour end ind 2014 Taylor toured Asia, Germany & the UK.
- Taylor was named one of the The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2014 by Barbara Walters.
- Taylor recieved 3 noms at the 2015 Grammy Awards.
Awards:
1 American Music Award
3 Peoples Choice Awards
1 Teen Choice Award
01. Katy Perry
Singles:
"Dark Horse"
"Birthday"
"This Is How We Do"
As featured artist:
"Who You Love"
Notes:
- Prism became one of the best selling albums of 2014 with a total of 1.6 million worldwide
- Prism was #8 Billboard 200 Year end chart
- Katy Perry named #2 Billboard top artist of 2014
- Dark Horse is #3 Billboard hot 100 year end chart & its one of the best selling songs of 2014 arround the world.
- Dark Horse Became the bigegst radio song of 2014 at the USA.
- Dark Horse became the most watched video at Youtube during 2014 with a total of 700 million views.
- This is How We Do cross 200 million views During 2014.
- The Prismatic World Tour became the 4th biggest tour of the year & Biggest tour of the year by a female in 2014 earning $153 million. The tour would end until march 2015.
- Forbes Ranked Katy at #9 Forbes Celebirty list with $40 million
- On November 23, 2014, NFL announced that Perry will perform at the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show on February 1, 2015.
- On June 26, 2014, she was declared the Top Certified Digital Artist Ever for certified sales of 72 million digital singles in the United States.
- Katy announced that she had founded her own record label under Capitol Records, titled Metamorphosis Music.
- Katy end her realtionship with John Mayer & date DJ Diplo.
- Taylor Swift & Katy got into a fight after Taylor revealed that she write Bad Blood dedicated to Katy.
- Katy Perry is Nominated for 2 Grammy Awards
Awards:
3 American Music Awards
1 MTV Video Music Award
2 Billboard Music Awards
2 MTV Europe Music Awards
2 Peoples Choice Awards
1 Teen Choice Award