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Originally posted by idkher
7 Grammy awards including the one for ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Two consecutive albums that opened with more than 1M sales
3 (soon to be 4) consecutive US number one albums
4 consecutive albums that sold over 4M copies in the US
Fearless is the most awarded album in country music history
WANEGBT holds the record for biggest sales week for a single by a female artist
Biggest lead on iTunes history
Can send promo singles to #1 on the Hot 100
Youngest winner of Grammy for Album of the Year
Youngest female artist to write a #1 country hit
She has been honored multiple times by the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Rolling Stone named Speak Now one of the 50 best albums ever released by a female artist.
Average touring gross of $1.8 million per show, higher than your fave without including festivals in her total gross like MCSWT
I Knew You Were Trouble is a bigger worldwide hit than anything Beyonce has ever touched
By the end of the year, Taylor will have sold more albums than Beyonce and has sold millions upon millions more singles than her
Almost everything you said proves that Beyonce is a media figure at this point. She's basically an Instagram user who releases music on the side
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Let's see if Taylor (or someone else
) is touching these anytime soon:
- Female artist who has spent the most weeks at No. 1of the 00's(36 wks).
- Female artist with the most Top 5 hits of the 00's.
- Female artist with the most Top 10 hits of the 00's.
- Female artist with the most Top 40 hits of the 00's.
- Highest paid black actress in the history of cinema.
- Female artist with the most Grammy awards won on a single night with six.
- First and only female artist to have 9 singles in the UK Top 75 off one album.
- “I am…Sasha Fierce” is the album with the most entries on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop chart this decade with 7.
- “I am…Sasha Fierce” held the record for the most #1 Dance singles off one album with 6.
- First African-American female and second overall female to win the “Songwriter of the Year” award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Pop Music Awards (2001).
- First and only woman to have a single and album simultaneously topping the main charts in both the U.S. and the UK (2003).
- Longest stay at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 within a year for a female ever (seventeen weeks with “Crazy in Love” and “Baby Boy”).
- Handled twice the record of most weeks spent at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in a single year by a female artist (seventeen weeks in 2003 and eight weeks in 2006).
- First non-athlete, non-model to appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and the second African-American (the first being Tyra Banks) to do so (2007).
- “Irreplaceable” is the first song to top twelve Billboard charts simultaneously (December 30, 2006).
- First artist to have a number-one single (”Check on It”), a number-one film (The Pink Panther), and win a Grammy Award in the same week (February 2006).
- First female artist to have a number-one single and win a Grammy Awards in the same week twice (”Check on It” and “Irreplaceable”, consecutively).
- Is the singer with the biggest film début ever with Austin Powers in Goldmember when it grossed $213,307,889 in America alone.
- Most number-ones by lead female artist this decade ( “Crazy In Love” , “Baby Boy” ,”Check on It” , “Irreplaceable” & “Single Ladies”).
- First Female to ever be awarded the International Artist Award at the American Music Awards.
Destiny’s Child is the biggest selling female group of all time.
- “Single Ladies” the most viewed video by female artist ever with over 720 million views.
- The most MTV nominations for a single video ever by a black artist (“Single Ladies” with 9) – second overall after Bad Romance with 10.
- Black female artist with the most magazine covers ever (over 500).
-First black female artist to top the 3 million mark in digital sales with "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
- First black female artist to top the 4 million mark in digital sales with "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
First black female artist to top the 5 million mark in digital sales with "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
- Female artist with the most Grammy nominations ever with 45 (tied)
- “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” is the first (non-rap) R&B hit to top the 4 million mark in paid downloads.
- “Independent Women” is the longest-running song by a female group ever.
- RIAA Artist of the Decade.
- Most certified Artist of the 00's.
- Most Master Ringtones certifications of the 00's.
-Billboard Millennium Award.
- Billboard's Female artist of the Decade.
- Billboard's Radio Artist of the Decade.
- Billboard's Hot 100 Female Artist of the Decade.
- Ranked 3rd on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music.
- GQ's Female of the Millennium.
- PEOPLE's Most Beautiful Woman (2011).
- VOGUE's Power Issue (2013).
- "Crazy in Love" was named VH1's "Greatest Song of the 200os".
- TIME's 100 Most Influential People In The World (2013).
-First Artist to perform twice at the Grammy's (2004).
-First Female Artist to Headline Glastonbury in 20 years.
-NRJ Artist of the Decade.
-Guinness Book of Records as the year's "highest -earning power couple" for collectively earning $122 million in 2009.
-Black Female Artist with the most MTV Awards (12), 3rd overall, only behind Madonna and Lady Gaga.
-Legend Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts at the World Music Awards.
-"Life Is But A Dream" largest audience for a HBO doc since 2004, pulling in 1.8 million viewers.
-Species of a horse fly named after Beyonce found in Northern Queensland, Australia called "Scaptia beyonceae".
- Youngest Artist to Headline The Super Bowl
-3rd most watched Super Bowl show in history garnering 104 million viewers.
-Most Grammy nominations in a single year by a female tied with Lauryn Hill (10) in 2010.
-"Telephone" the biggest selling female collaboration of all-time, 9 million copies sold worldwide.
-Guinness Book of Records "Baby Announcement" 8,868 tweets per second on twitter, the most TPS ever recorded for a single event.
-Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (as apart of Destiny's Child).
-- "Amor Gitano" is the best-selling single ever in Spain, with total sales of 480,000.
-2nd Female Artist in history to achieve 200 million audience impressions "Check On It" (2006).
-2nd Female Artist in history to achieve her second single with 200 million audience impressions "Irreplaceable" (2006).
-"Halo" is the first song by an international artist to top the #1 spot for 27 weeks in Brazil.
-First and ONLY artist to sing three of the Oscar nominates for "Best Song" during the telecast.
-"Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" 2nd longest charting song in the history of the Australian Singles Chart (100 weeks).
-First non-hispanic person to make People en Espanol's "Most Beautiful Latinos" list (2007).
-AskMen's Most Desirable Woman of the Decade.
-Artist with the most BET nominations (39)
- Female Artist with the most BET Awards (11)
-Fastest selling Fragrance, 3 million worth of "HEAT" in 3 weeks (2010).
-First person to have earned the Demand International Entertainer of the Year (2008).
-Only entertainer on Forbes "20 Most Powerful Moms" list (2012).
-Forbes: Most Powerful Black Woman in the U.S (2011).
- "I Am... Sasha Fierce" album Diamond in Brazil.
- "Halo" was also the most downloaded song in Brazil from November 2009 to November 2010, as highlighted by the first edition of the Brazilian Digital Music Awards.
-"Dangerously In Love" listed in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.
-"Crazy In Love" #118 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list, highest female artist from her generation .
-Biggest jump in Billboard history with "Beautiful Lair" by a black female artist (2007).
-38 top 40 hits on the UK Chart.
-The only artist in history to top the Billboard's Hot 100 Chart for 10 weeks or more as a solo artist and with a group ("Independent Woman Part 1", 11 weeks. & "Irreplaceable 10 weeks").
-"Bootylicious" in the Oxford English Dictionary.
-First post on Tumblr becomes one of the greatest Achievements on Tumblr.
-"Baby Boy" was the first and is now one of four songs to hold the record for most consecutive weeks as 'Greatest Airplay Gainer' on the Hot 100 Airplay (7 weeks).
- "Crazy in Love" first song to top the digital song charts (2003).
-Named Met Gala Chair (2013).
- "I Am... World Tour" best-selling music DVD of 2010.
- Billboard's Woman Of The Year (2009).
-"Beyonce pregnant" most googled term the week of August 29, 2011.
-Complex's Hottest Female Singer of All Time.
- 17 Grammy wins.
-Third most honored female artist by the Grammys, behind Alison Krauss (27) and Aretha Franklin (18).
- Top 5 hit single every year from 1998 - 2010 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart.
- 5 VOGUE covers.
- As of August 2007, Destiny's Child have produced a sum of 154 awards both domestically and internationally since 1998, making them the most awarded female group of all-time.
- No. 1 Selling Celebrity Fragrance Brand Worldwide, with sales of over $400 million.
- Super Bowl Halftime Performance is the second "Biggest Moment" on twitter with 268,000 tweets per min (2013).
- Best-Selling VOGUE issue of 2013 (March cover).
- $1 Billion dollar gross at the Box Office.
- 100 million+ in DVD (film) sales.
- 2 Billion VEVO views.
- Record of being the fastest selling tour of 2013 at Vector Arena in New Zealand - 'The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour'
- The highest audience attendance at Vector Arena by a solo artist attracting 44,596 fans in New Zealand for 'The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour' (2013)
- "Life Is But A Dream" pulled in 1.8 million, making it the largest audience for an HBO doc since Nielsen amended its method of measuring ratings in 2004. (2013)
- 828,773 worldwide downloads, a new record for global iTunes sales, making Beyoncé the fastest-selling album in the history of the iTunes store in just three days
- 617,213 downloads, a new first week record for the U.S. iTunes store in three days.
- Beyoncé number one in 107 countries.Beyoncé's biggest sales week ever.
- 2014 MTV Vanguard Award
- 226 million dollar grossing tour
- On The Run Tour 2nd Highest Gross Revenue Per Show Ever
Note that these are acomplishments in every single aspect of her career. From massive sales (singles and albums), impact, to the highest honors, to magazines, to movies, to touring, EVERYTHING SHE TOUCHED THROUGHOUT HER WHOLE CAREER!
By the way, if you really think Bey is an instagram user who releases music compared to Taylor, then I can't even begin to wonder what Rihanna is in this case
