What did she do beside releasing Shake It Off? Beyoncé or Katy should've gotten this, they achieved a lot more this year and done tons of projects too.
Well this is weird, Ariana should have taken it but I think her album's sales didn't help. Well Taylor is going to surpass other pop girls when her album comes out before the end of the year so maybe Billboard has taken that into consideration.
Obvious choice really. No other album sold 800k this year to date apart from Frozen. Tay will get likely that within the first week. Her single SIO is smashing in the US, Top of US iTunes after 7 weeks, about to go top of Airplay, top of US Spotify for more than 2 weeks now.
Other acts have had good years too but people will recall 2014 as being the year of 1989.