Lady GaGa and Ke$ha Named Billboard’s Top Artists of the Year 2010
2010 has officially been declared the year of the woman. Billboard has awarded Lady GaGa their prestigious title of Artist of the Year, based on her chart accomplishments during the period of December 5th 2009 to November 27th 2010. Lady Gaga is only the 7th woman to receive this honor, following in the footsteps of Madonna, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Alanis Morissette, and Taylor Swift.
This is not the first time Gaga has received recognition from Billboard just last year, the ‘Alejandro’ singer took home the coveted Top New Artist Award. Despite being ousted from the top spot by Lady Gaga, the ‘Speak Now’ singer hasn’t been left out of the 2010 lineup completely. Swift comes in at number two this year, and is the only solo artist to spend two successive years in the top two spots since Garth Brooks in the early 1990.
Gaga vacating the Top New Artist throne, there’s room for a new entrant. Cue ‘Cannibal’ Ke$ha, whose Jack Daniels doused oral hygiene and songwriting styles have won the hearts of a nation. Boosting her into the honor is her 2010 hit ‘Tik Tok,’ which spent nine weeks atop the Hot 100 list. Impressively, ‘Tik Tok’ was Ke$ha’s first single to make it on to Billboard’s charts. The recipients of Billboard’s highest group honor are country crooners Lady Antebellum, whose hit ‘Need you now’ spent a whopping 42 weeks of the eligibility period on the Billboard top 40.
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