On the eve of her 35th birthday, Taylor Swift broke yet another record as she secured 10 new wins at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards on Thursday night (12/12).
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Going into Thursday night’s ceremony, Swift was tied with rapper Drake for the most career wins at 39. With 17 nominations in 16 categories this year, the odds were in Swift’s favor to pull ahead and become Billboard’s sole, most-decorated artist of all time, which is exactly what happened.
While unable to attend the awards in person, Swift appeared via video message to accept her awards expressing, “This is like the nicest, early birthday present you could have given me so thank you very much.” She then went on to thank her fans explaining she considers the awards “fan voted.”
"Thank you to the fans, because Billboard is counting your stuff,” she said. “They're counting what you're listening to, the albums that you're passionate about. So I count these as fan voted awards, because you guys are the ones who care about our albums and come see us in concert."
Swift's wins from the night include Top Artist, Top Female Artist, Top Billboard 200 Artist, Top Hot 100 Artist, Top Hot 100 Songwriter, Top Streaming Songs Artist, Top Radio Songs Artist, Top Billboard Global 200 Artist, Top Billboard Global (excluding U.S.) Artist and Top Billboard 200 Album for "The Tortured Poets Department.”
The wins came days after Swift wrapped her record-shattering Eras Tour in Vancouver on Sunday night. The trek grossed $2,077,618,725 in ticket sales and was attended by 10,168,008 fans.
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