7, SKILLET They also keep a tally of how each release performs and by the end of the decade Billboard releases a list of who are the most popular recording artists of the decade. 2, thanks in part to her two No. Also Rihanna’s #4 position was probably bolstered by her bubbling-under Top 100 Hot 100 success as neither of my models predicted her to rank so high. Taylor Swift is the all-time winner with three and Swift and Rihanna is the most nominated artist with seven. 7, CARRIE UNDERWOOD Male vs Female Performance: Using the predicted Top 10 Artists of the Decades, I used the top male and top female artist’s performance to work out if the males or the females performed better every year during the 2010s. Drake falls by almost 12% compared to Taylor Swift who only suffered a 9% decrease in chart performance, yet it is clearly defined that Drake and Taylor are the albums artists of the decade. Rihanna and Bruno Mars have Billboard hot 100 success but they lack on Billboard 200 performance, Adele is doing very well on the Billboard 200 but lacks on Billboard hot 100 performance and Justin Bieber has on … 10, WILLIAM MCDOWELL. Figure 9: Stacked bar charts which show the breakdown for how much the Big 4 Parent Music Labels dominated the decade. Touring 1s on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums during the decade's chart tracking period. I also added together the artist’s Hot 100 and BB200 points to get to an overall Artist of the Decade rank. Halsey; No. The yellow arrows indicate deflated chart points from an average of 200 chart points in Figure 7 to 140 chart points in Figure 8 (30% drop). 6-10 are ranked below, with the top five set to be revealed during the 2021 Billboard Music Awards. However, Drake’s album success was unparalleled and his two projects Views (#9) and Scorpion (#19) pushed him to earning more than double the points compared to his peers. "It starts with moving to Nashville, but then you've got to prove that you're gonna be able to pull this career off," the Georgia native mused in 2017. Figures 7 (upper) and 8 (lower): Line charts that show the annual performance of the Top 10 Decade End Artists’ singles and  albums together. 2, "Party Rock Anthem," LMFAO feat. I then went back and added an SPS (streaming plus sales) weighting factor. For the 2010s, publications believe that Billboard will follow a similar format as the 2000s. Then I ordered the lists to see who had the best performing Hot 100 and BB200 success on the chart. The former trek covered 2009-11, becoming the highest-grossing tour all-time, with $736 million, until Ed Sheeran's The Divide Tour (2017-19) took the title with a final gross of $776.2 million. Artists highly successful in the first half of the decade also made strong appearances in the second half of the decade, such as Rihanna, Adele, Bruno and Taylor - all of whom were establishing consistent commercial success through the decade. In 2015, Taylor Swift was the only major female artist who was able to sustain a female presence. Rounding out the top five: No. 1, To Be Announced However, the top 5 have not. The first number-one song of the decade was "Empire State of Mind" by Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys.In 2012, Drake broke the … This may be because her credited single’s success was diluted and she had to split the singles’ performance with featured artists such as Eminem, Drake and Calvin Harris. 6, ANTHONY BROWN & GROUP THERAPY The Biz premium subscriber content has moved to Billboard.com/business. All Rights Reserved. Also as previously announced, Adele's 21 rules as the Billboard 200's top decade-end album. Unfortunately, it means that an album such as ‘25’ which debuted with 3,380,000 copies, had the same weekly chart performance figure as ‘Anti’ which debuted with 166,000 copies. The null hypothesis was that there is an association between my predictive ranking and the actual ranking. 1, IMAGINE DRAGONS View the full, 50-position Top Country Artists of the 2010s chart here. 8, LIL WAYNE They are more on par with ‘Unorthodox Jukebox’ and ‘Overexposed’ which is more realistic as ‘21’ was a rare experience of epic proportions at the time in the industry. Albums must have reviews from at least 15 criticsto qualify for inclusion; reissues, compilations, and EPs are excluded. Names of those who stomped on these multiple formats might include Rihanna, Drake, Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, Justin Bieber - just to name a few. The method is also beneficial when handling small figures and smaller sample sizes (n=10) compared to other ranking systems such as Spearman’s rho. They were most likely experiencing success at this time in one platform as opposed to both. Ed Sheeran and Post Malone then crept in with enormous success in the second half of the decade and were able to squeeze themselves into comfortable mid-to-lower tier positions of the Top 10. 10, GERARDO ORTIZ, Since first hitting Billboard's surveys as a soloist in 2011, after breaking though in hit bachata quartet Aventura, Romeo Santos has collected seven solo No. The most surprising outcome from this investigation is seeing Post Malone’s Billboard domination after only three years of success in the latter end of the decade - this was enough to land him a Top 10 position! 10, MARSHMELLO. The left graph shows the performance using raw points whereas the right graph shows the points with SPS-weighting, so the y-axis decreases by 100 points. Figure 10 shows that at the beginning of the decade the biggest chart performing artists on Billboard were female such as Adele, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry. Of particular note is Rihanna’s rank in the ‘2010s - SPS’ plot (see the bottom-left plot). Figure 11 shows that Drake, Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Justin Bieber achieved the majority of their top Billboard points from their album performance compared to their singles performance. The weaker rank models also have 5 Top 10 artists whose ranking is underrepresented compared to their actual rank and have 3 to 4 Top 10 artists whose ranking is overrepresented compared to their actual rank. The top 10 charts are without the SPS adjustment whereas the charts below are inclusive of the SPS adjustment. Luke Bryan earned another career achievement this week when he was named Billboard's top country artists of the 2010s, earning the distinction thanks to his 11 No. 7, JAMES FORTUNE & FIYA 1. I also created graphs to show how the releases of the predicted Top 10 Artists did annually and cumulatively over the decade. Therefore I used a Kendall Tau software (Wessa, (2017), Kendall tau Rank Correlation (v1.0.13) in Free Statistics Software (v1.2.1), Office for Research Development and Education, URL https://www.wessa.net/rwasp_kendall.wasp/) which would help identify the statistical association between my ranking and Billboard’s ranking. As previously reported, Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk!," featuring Bruno Mars, reigns as the Hot 100's No. 8, KATY PERRY The phrase “the kids are alright” … It should be noted that the main limitation of my ranking is that Billboard’s list also takes into account the entire chart performance of the artists, not just the Top 100/200 lists used for this investigation. On decade-end Hot Songs and Top Albums recaps, titles are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. Do Not Sell My Personal Information 9, FALL OUT BOY Therefore the ratio/strength of pre-2015 and post-2014 songs is 1.0 : 1.5. 10 dance/electronic artist of the 2010s, and Bastille, controlled Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a record 69 weeks beginning in September 2018. Let's dig into the all-genre Top Artists of the 2010s from Nos. 6 through 10  tallied a combined 23 No. Figures 12 (upper) and 13 (lower): A series of pie charts which shows the breakdown of how much an artist’s total points is made up using their singles performance and of their albums performance. Drake, Taylor Swift, Adele and Justin Bieber released successful albums such as ‘Take Care’ (#45), ‘Red’ (#32), ‘21’ (#1) and ‘My World 2.0’ (#22) in the digital age. 3, "Shape of You," Ed Sheeran; No. 4, Frozen soundtrack; No. 4, PANIC! The 2010s saw the rise of a new generation of musicians with larger-than-life personalities. With 250 reported shows during the 2010s, the famed Irish rock quartet is the only act to have earned more than $1 billion in that span, closing with $1.018 billion and 9.1 million tickets sold, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. View the full, 50-position Top Christian Artists of the 2010s chart here. Figure 7 shows that Adele, Bruno Mars and Katy Perry gained the highest charting points in 2011. 12/3/2020 This is similar to what we saw in Figures 3 and 4 where Drake and Taylor’s cumulative performance is more dominant towards their albums. On the other hand, for the 2000s Billboard determined their list by using an inverse point system. 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