Ranking is based on an artist's chart performance on the Billboard Hot 100 (which includes airplay, sales, and streaming data) and the Billboard 200 albums chart, as well as Boxscore touring revenue, Social 50 chart activity and ringtone sales.
Killing the dance/electronic charts and the jazz charts
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Originally posted by umich
Their massive tour + remember they had two albums during the BB tracking period.
Someone feel free to clock me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Four just missed the cutoff for this year. It's not on the top 100 albums even though its first week would easily place it there.
The Billboard year end charts are from December to November. More than half of ARTPOP sales counted for 2014 and almost all the chart run of DWYW counted for the 2014 year end chart too.
This was the first Hot 100 to count for the 2014 year end chart:
A #4 album and #24 single from 1D doesn't seem like one-week irrelevant domination to me
That's not domination.
It's weird because when you look back at past Artist of the Years:
2012 - Adele: 5 million in one year with album, 2 #1 singles, and each sold over 5M+.
2010 - Eminem: 4M+ in one year with an album, 2 #1 singles, both also over 4-5+M.
2013 - Justin Timberlake: 2M with one album, 2 multi platinum Top 2 hits, and a 2nd Platinumbalbum was coming out.
1D had an album just scrape platinum through Q4 and 1 Top 10. Both which died out by January and didn't have any year dominance.
That doesn't sound like a Top Artist of the Year when the public missed all their singles from 2 eras except for 1 moderate hit & they had a Platinum album. m
The others had huge eras that broke records and will be remembered. Who even remembers Story of My Life nor Midnight Memories by now? Let's be real, I love you tho Vesp.
Rude should NOT be that high.
Still tho 
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