From the year to 2010 to 2019 a lot has happened and the biggest names and show business have
had to change with the times.
Miley Cyrus came into the decade an innocent little girl, then twerked on Robin Thicke
before going bonkers on her bangerz tour before settling down and getting married.
Now she's divorced, had stolen Brody Jenners's girlfriend and is now with Cody Simpson.
No one could have predicted that!
The past decade has brought us a ton of changes.
Roll back the clock to 2010, the hottest show on TV was Lost and it was coming to an end
while Jersey Shore was just taking off.
Instagram was only first introduced at the turn of the century and would go onto become
the behemoth it is today.
In the same time we've seen Vine collapse.
Facebook became a movie and YouTube is continuing on it's march for global domination!
The Frozen film had every kid singing Let It Go.
We got Game of Thrones.
The Avengers from start to finish and Fortnite.
The world also got it's meme's and challenges like the Ice Bucket and we got Donald Trump
as President and we got Donald Trump doing the Hotline Bling.
We got the Me Too movement... the advent and introduction of vaping.
The rise of Cardi B, Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X & more...
So a lot has happened – but who has been the artist of the decade?
I'm gonna run you through the artist of each year according to Billboard and other online
sources.
We started out the decade immersed in pop but by the end it was all about hip hop.
My name is Michael McCrudden.
I make a ton of youtube videos, mostly biographical.
Sound off in the comments down below of who you think the biggest star has been & now
let's get into this video.
First up, in 2010 we got Lady Gaga who was followed closely by Taylor Swift, & Eminem.
Even though she didn't release an album that year, her success at the top of the charts
have to do with her previously released album “The Fame Monster” released in 2009.
In 2010 she dropped the song “Telephone” which was her collaboration with Beyonce.
It was also the year she wore her now infamous meat dress at the 2010 MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS.
Her Fame Monster army, gay right activism and outlandish fashion sense had on the front
cover every tabloid and a household name.
She pushed the boundaries for pop music and like David Bowie and Madonna all rolled into
one.
2010 was Gaga mania.
She would only have been 24 at the time!
Damn!
Aright, moving onto 2011 we got Adele followed by Rihanna and Katy Perry.
Out of nowhere, no where being London U.K. Adele erupted on the music charts with her
TOP SELLING album “21” and singles Someone Like you, Set Fire To The Rain and Rolling
in the Deep, the latter being the biggest song that year...
She landed herself on the cover of rolling stone...
Rolling in the deep peaked at #1 (and stayed there for 7 weeks) and was on the billboard
hot 100 chart for 65 weeks!
While someone like you peaked at #1 (and stayed there for 5 weeks) and was on the billboard
hot 100 chart for 39 weeks!
That year there was another song that was almost as impactful, Call Me Maybe by Carly
Rae Jepsen but her catalogue of work didn't make her a super star like Adele.
Still a catchy tune.
For 2012 it was all about RIHANNA with Adele and Taylor Swift following close but no cigar.
RiRi released her seventh studio album called “apologetic” which included the singles
diamonds and STAY.
She also won her third grammy that year for best rap/sung collaboration at the 2012 grammy
awards for her Kanye West Collaboration “All of the Lights” . She was also voted the
Best International Female Solo Artist at the 2012 BRIT awards for the second consecutive
year.
In September of that year “We Found Love” won the MTV Video Music Award for video of
the year making Rihanna the first woman to receive the accolade more than once.
2013 marked a changing of the guard and it wasn't into rap but it did bring a male contender
to the top.
2013 was the year or Bruno Mars who was followed by T Swift and Justin Timberlake.
He rang in the new year with his December 2012 song Locked Out Of Heaven at the #1 spot
on hot 100 which stayed there for 6 weeks and stayed on the charts for 36 weeks!
Then came When I was Your Man peaked at #1 and was on the hot 100 chart for 35 weeks!
and Treasure peaked at #5 and was on the hot 100 chart for 23 weeks!
He was nominated that year for 4 vma's winning 2 of those and won best song at the MTV EMAS
for Locked Out Of Heaven.
In 2014 One Direction had risen from X Factor fame to the top of the charts with Katy Perry
and Beyonce in second and third respectively.
Following the groups formation they went on their “Where we are TOUR” in which they
played 69 shows with an audience = of about 50,000 fans per show.
That tour grossed over 290 million dollars and it became the Highest grossing concert
tour of the year.
(the 15th highest grossing of all time) and the HIGHEST grossing tour of all time by a
vocal group.
3.4 MILLION fans went to that tour.
Because of how well that tour did, they decided to release a documentary called “one direction:
where we are – the concert film.”
This was also the year that they were at the peak of their success.
They released their album “FOUR” that year which sold over a million copies and
would be Zayn Malik's final album with the band.
Moving over to 2015 we got Taylor Swift
followed closely by Ed Sheeran and The Weeknd.
She had dated Calvin Harris this year and they were ranked the highest paid celebrity
couple over the past year by Forbes with a combined earning of 146 million dollars.
She released the single “bad blood” which featured many notable celebrity appearances
including Selena Gomez, Cara Delevigne, and Jessica Alba amongst others.
That year she was nominated for 14 billboard music awards and won 8 including TOP ARTIST,
TOP FEMALE ARTIST and top BILLBOARD 200 ALBUM for 1989.
She also released Wildest Dreams and Style that year.
T Swift has seeminly always been at the top of the charts but 2015 was her year, defo
more so than 2019 where she don't even own any of her music.
Damn you Scooter Braun.
This brings us to 2016.
The year or Justin Bieber followed by Adele and Drake.
2016 was a shitty year so it's only fitting that Justin Bieber wins this one.
(just kidding) Song “Sorry” peaked at #1 for 3 weeks and remained on the charts
for 42 weeks.
This song also became Bieber's second number 1 single on the billboard hot 100.
Also “Love Yourself” which was the third single from “Purpose” peaked at #1 remained
on the charts for 41 weeks that year.
This made Justin Bieber the first male artist in almost a decade to have 3 number ONES from
an album since Justin Timberlake in 2006.
Justin also went on the “purpose” tour that year.
He also became the first artist to reach 10 billion views on youtube and had the most
disliked video.
He also set 8 Guinness world records, received 4 grammy noms and ended the year tweeting
a simple “Thank you!”
He didn't become the most hated man in entertainment until 2018 – just so ya know.
At this time he was still a kid.
In 2017 we got Ed Sheeran followed by Bruno Mars and Drizzy Drake once ain.
He was named Spotify's most streamed artist of 2017 with 6.3 billion streams.
And we mainly have 1 song to thank for that.
Shape OF YOU was also named the best single of 2017 in the UK and the BEST SELLING single
of 2017 on the billboard hot 100 (in the US).
It peaked at #1 on the hot 100 chart and stayed on the charts for 59 weeks.
The song is at 4.5 BILLION views on youtube.
Finally our boy Drake had his moment to shine in 2018 becoming Spotify's most streamed artist
of the decade.
His song God's plan” debuted at #1 and remained on the charts for 36 weeks.
It was replaced by his song “Nice for What” which also debuted at #1 and he became the
first artist to have a new number 1 debut replace their former number 1 debut.
He released Scorpion and the album broke the one day global records with 132.45 million
streams on Spotify and 170 million streams on apple music.
The album also debuted at #1 on the billboard 200.
This was also the year of In my Feelings which started the popular dance meme and challenge.
After the massive success of in my feelings, Drake became the record holder for most number
1 hits among rappers.
That takes us to this year with Post Malone on top for 2019.
Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish came in second and third.
He started his year right being nominated for 4 Grammys
at the start of the
year for
his album beer bongs and bentleys.
He won favourite album at the 2019 American Music Awards.