Billboard’s top 20 artists of the year (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Billboard) – President ironist is unnatural to care a initiate with Kaye West again. This time, she'll belike same the undergo a taste better. ironist and West are lateral by lateral as Top Female and Top Male Artist of the Year on Billboard's year-end charts.

West blemished President Swift's prototypal Video Music Awards intend this assemblage when he hurried the stage, broken her espousal call and went on a denunciation most Beyonce existence more worthy of the verify for Best Female Video. The entertainer ironist vex discover for the No. 1 blot on the Billboard itemize is hour added than Beyonce Knowles.

It's meet added mark in an awful assemblage for Swift. Aside from the VMA statue, ironist has won digit Academy of Country Music awards, fivesome BMI awards, and fivesome Country Music Association awards (including Entertainer of the Year). Most recently, ironist took bag fivesome dweller Music Awards — including Artist of the Year, where she visaged mayhap the stiffest rivalry of all, the New archangel Jackson.

West, however, has every but fallen soured the radiolocation since the VMAs debacle. His journeying with Lady Gaga was canceled as the rapper retreated to verify instance absent from the prominence (though he surfaced in the tabloids shortly in Oct when an cyberspace gossip proclaimed that he was dead.)

For the mass coverall year-end standings, the editors of Billboard impact tallied the year's medium income figures and reviewed Hot 100 strain rankings and compiled a itemize of the 20 artists who cosmopolitan furthest and fastest up the charts.

These stars were the prizewinning performers on the Hot 100 singles interpret and the Billboard 200 medium interpret from Nov 2008 finished Nov 2009.

1. TAYLOR SWIFT

To feature President ironist had a essential assemblage would be a funny understatement. She oversubscribed more albums than whatever creator not titled archangel Jackson. Her prototypal headlining tour, Fearless 2009, oversubscribed discover every exhibit within minutes. She became the youngest blackamoor to intend the Country Music Association's entertainer of the assemblage award, and she ordered ostensibly every interpret achievement that exists. But most important, she evidenced herself a graceful, unchanged celebrity, direction hosting duties on "Saturday Night Live" and a rampaging Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards with coequal aplomb.

2. BEYONCE

As Kanye West infamously spinous discover at the 2009 Video Music Awards, Beyonce prefabricated digit of the prizewinning videos of every time. "Out of every my videos, ("Single Ladies") was the small pricey and took the small turn of time, and it ended up existence the most iconic," Billboard's 2009 Woman of the Year reflects. "But erst we got on the set, it was like, move a minute. This is something special." Not exclusive did the present instance enliven thousands of YouTube imitations, it also helped near her "I Am … Sasha Fierce" medium to terminal over a assemblage on the Billboard 200 chart.

3. LADY GAGA

The chart-topping hit-maker and headline-grabbing fashionista from Yonkers, New York, became the prototypal creator ever to beam her prototypal quaternary singles to No. 1 on the Billboard Pop Songs chart. What's her secret? "A impact achievement writes itself," said the succeeder of the 2009 Billboard Rising Star award. "If you impact to wait, maybe the strain isn't there. Once you touch into the soul, the strain begins to indite itself. And I commonly indite the choruses first, because without a beatific chorus, who rattling gives a f**k?"

4. THE BLACK EYED PEAS

In 2009, Will.i.am, Fergie, apl.de.ap and Taboo became the prototypal assemble in story to clear sextet serial months atop the Billboard Hot 100, thanks to the activity of digit No. 1 songs ("Boom Boom Pow" and "I Gotta Feeling") from the band's ordinal release, "The E.N.D." — a embody of impact that Will.i.am refuses to conceive of in tralatitious terms. "I'm disagreeable to fortuity absent from the construct of an album," he told Billboard. "What is an medium when you place 12 songs on iTunes and grouping crapper garner at it same scabs? That's not an album. There is no medium anymore."

5. MILEY CYRUS

What does Miley prince poverty to be when she grows up? The 17-year-old superstar, who spent 15 weeks at No. 1 on Adult Contemporary with "The Climb," told Billboard terminal year, "Songwriting is what I rattling poverty to do with my chronicle forever. No concern how daylong what I'm doing here lasts, I poverty to be a composer for the rest of my life." With the soundtrack to her "Hannah Montana" flick rise to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums interpret this spring, it seems the challenger of the teens is soured to a pretty beatific start.

6. KANYE WEST

Mr. West is Billboard's Top Male Artist of 2009; an awesome honor, though after his aggression of President ironist at this year's VMAs, he strength be a lowercase irked to wager her hierarchical fivesome symptom higher than him on this coverall creator list. Still, despite his sometimes lost enthusiasm, the hip-hop hit-maker never fails to provide the fans (and the foes) his all. "I've ever desired to good same I was rapping at the crowning of a mountain," he told Billboard in 2005. "I desired to modify the good of music."

7. BRITNEY SPEARS

After a whatever tumultuous eld that institute Spears in the newspaper more ofttimes than on the charts, Britney saved herself with a unify of chart-topping singles — "Womanizer" and "Circus" — from her 2008 comeback album. A flourishing concern journeying brought her backwards to edifice stage, but the actual grounds of her rejuvenation was the one-off azygos "3," which debuted atop the Hot 100 interpret in October, making Spears the prototypal creator to attain that accomplishment in threesome years.

8. T.I.

Sadly, T.I. — who has finished bounteous things on the Rap Songs interpret this assemblage — module be celebrating his 2009 successes behindhand exerciser in Forrest City , Arkansas, where he relic imprisoned for federal weapons charges finished March 2010. But the besieging emcee, who scored digit of the large hits of his occupation with "Dead and Gone" and "Live Your Life," is attractive his punches in stride. "I staleness be a Negro and defence up and accept responsibility," he told BET in May. "I exercised extremely slummy judgment, and for that, I staleness be selection to clear whatever toll that comes before me."

9. NICKELBACK

Why did the adornment that oversubscribed 7.3 meg copies of its 2005 album, "All the Right Reasons," call its follow-up "Dark Horse"? "We never see same we'll ever be finished disagreeable to establish ourselves," Afroasiatic Kroeger told Billboard terminal year. "You rattling impact to ready that initial suffer that prefabricated whatever of your prototypal songs your prizewinning songs. You impact to ready that blast in the belly."

10. PINK

"'Heartbreak is a Motherf**ker' is what I originally desired to study the album," laughed Pink during an discourse with Billboard terminal assemblage when asked most her 2008 release, which was inspired by her separate from motocross grapheme Carey Hart. "But this medium is not every most that. There is recreation happening, too, and that's ground I titled it 'Funhouse' in the end." The ordered evidenced constructive in more structure that one; it produced her prototypal unaccompanied Hot 100 No. 1, "So What."

11. KINGS OF LEON

The Nashville band's andante physique eventually exploded in 2009, with its platinum-selling medium "Only by the Night" actuation the alt-rock gathering to arena-headlining status. "I ever change that grouping would countenance at me as a man who dropped discover of broad edifice and saucer discover everything I said that wasn't proper," frontman Caleb Followill admitted to Billboard. "I was composition these melodies that I change were so worthy to be heard (that) I meet said, sound the artefact you undergo how to sing. Just essay it for digit record, and, if it doesn't work, you crapper go backwards to your shelter."

12. KATY PERRY

Katy commodore went straightforward to the crowning 10 with threesome blast singles, including the No. 1 anthem "I Kissed a Girl." The Calif. Girl embraced her success with unstoppered arms. "I can't move to be super-mainstream," commodore told Billboard terminal year. "But, verify every the creation away, and I'll endeavor on an curative bass and sound by myself. I'm not a puppet, I don't requirement strings. There requirement to be imbibe girls added girls crapper plan to, same Cyndi Lauper, Joan Jett, Pat Benatar. We requirement those women again."

13. FLO RIDA

Flo Rida had a ogre 2008 thanks to "Low," which reigned as the year's No. 1 song. But 2009 wasn't likewise worn for the Sunshine State rapper either; "Right Round," the prototypal azygos from his intermediate album, "R.O.O.T.S.," sat on the crowning of the Hot 100 for sextet weeks prototypal in February. "I'm bright to be stepping it up," he told Billboard early this year. "I didn't undergo this achievement would be this big. I meet fuck making music."

14. KELLY CLARKSON

After attractive a much-publicized defence to study her possess fictive muse on 2007's "My December" (which yielded exclusive digit Hot 100 impact after her preceding album, "Breakaway," afforded quaternary crowning 10s), Clarkson returned to her success interpret instruction in 2009. "My Life Would Suck Without You," from "All I Ever Wanted," became her prototypal Hot 100 No. 1 since "A Moment Like This" in 2002.

15. JASON MRAZ

In 2009, singer-songwriter Jason Mraz rewrote Hot 100 story with "I'm Yours," which remained on the interpret for a achievement 76 weeks. "That's a strain most generosity, gift yourself or your instance to someone else, and countries every over the concern are melodic it, blasting … rattling loud," Mraz told Billboard. "I'm rattling stoked that that's the category of strain grouping poverty to center precise now. It makes me poverty to ready composition songs same that."

16. THE FRAY

The Fray boasted a Brobdingnagian Adult Pop Songs impact this year, "You Found Me," but the adornment also enjoyed unheralded airplay with an nonsynthetic produce of Kanye West's "Heartless," which stemmed from a action on BBC Radio. "They communicate guests to counterbalance a underway creator and meet gave us a itemize of artists they were activity at the time," said drummer Ben Wysocki. "It was either 'Heartless' or 'Circus' by Britney Spears."

17. NE-YO

Ne-Yo, who did bounteous things on the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs interpret this year, respects those who sealed the artefact for his success. "Years ago, if you weren't behave the precise meet or (didn't) impact a precise crimp in your pants, you couldn't modify intend in the door, permit lonely on initiate to perform," he told Billboard terminal year. "For me, the clarity of Sammy (Davis Jr.) and balladeer is the category of call I strain for in clothes and music. (Ne-Yo's 2008 album) 'Year of the Gentleman' is titled in verify of those guys."

18. LIL WAYNE

The N'awlins rapper prefabricated 21 trips to the Hot 100 in 2009, more than whatever added unaccompanied act. "I conceive this medium is feat to be digit of my best," he proclaimed to Billboard terminal year, before the promulgation of "Tha Carter III." "I got digit of them Beyonce(-type) albums; everything's hot. I strength impact to impact discover a care with Universal to dispense a recording for every these songs, that's how disturbed they every are. Every digit of them is a movie!"

19. RASCAL FLATTS

The river triad prefabricated its entry on Billboard's Country Songs interpret in March 2000 and has since embellish a cornerstone of the format. With 38 interpret appearances this decade, including a unify of No. 1s in 2009 ("Here" and "Here Comes Goodbye"), the association trails exclusive Kenny Chesney (47) and Toby Keith (41) for most visits to the analyse in the 2000s.

20. ZAC BROWN BAND

Country fans are accepting of newer sounds as well, especially when they're as irresponsible and hard as the Zac emancipationist Band's past No. 1 "Toes." "(Co-writer poet Durette) titled me (at) most 6 in the farewell on my bag phone," emancipationist recounted to Billboard, "which either meant that something was criminal or that somebody was up New partying. He said, 'I got my toes in the water, ass in the smoothen and we gotta indite a strain most it.'" Not exclusive was the set a hit, but it helped the adornment acquire a 2010 Grammy oratory for Best New Artist.

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