Swift didn’t debut onto the Billboard charts until July 2006 with her debut single ‘Tim McGraw’.
The mega pop star has had the most No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 among female musicians and 12 No. 1 songs on the Hot 100.
In 2022, the Cruel Summer singer also became the first artist to claim each of the Hot 100’s top 10 positions with songs from her Midnights album.
She achieved the feat again when she released The Tortured Poets Department in 2024.
Drake came in at second place, with a record 78 Hot 100 top 10s. In 2021, he became the first artist since The Beatles in 1964 to have locked down the Hot 100’s top five in a single week.
Rihanna came in third, while Post Malone ranked fourth.
Billboard’s Top 10 Artists of the 21st Century:
- Taylor Swift
- Drake
- Rihanna
- Post Malone
- Eminem
- The Weeknd
- Beyoncé
- Justin Bieber
- Bruno Mars
- Usher
