Results: Taylor Swift Is Time Magazine's Person Of The Year
Published on 12/07/2023
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Taylor Swift has capped off an incredible 2023 by being named Time Magazine's person of the year. The star, whose Eras tour broke box office records and provoked an inquiry into Ticketmaster's sales practices, follows the likes of Barack Obama, Greta Thunberg and Volodymyr Zelensky. The cover goes to an event or person deemed to have had the most influence on global events over the past year. Do you think Taylor deserves this honour?
Absolutely!
22%
457 votes
Perhaps
28%
586 votes
No
33%
690 votes
I feel there are better candidates but she is deserving of it
17%
367 votes
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Already a superstar before 2023, her career has reached new heights thanks to the Eras tour - which sees the singer perform a career-spanning 45-song set every night. Demand for tickets was so high that it crashed Ticketmaster's website, prompting a hearing into its business practices by the US Senate. When the tour began in the summer, ticketless fans gathered in car parks just to hear the music. In Seattle, her concerts generated seismic activity equivalent to a 2.3 magnitude earthquake. Time editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs said the US pop icon was "the rare person who is both the writer and hero of her own story", adding that Swift had "found a way to transcend borders and be a source of light". Do you feel that giving the cover to Taylor instead of someone else conveys the glimmer of hope and light in a world filled with violence, upheaval and darkness? Interesting way of looking at it!
27%
571 votes
Yes, I do
14%
293 votes
Not sure
29%
606 votes
No
30%
630 votes
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The short list of potential candidates was filled with powerful and sometimes infamous names, but in the end Taylor came out on top. Who on this list do you think the cover should have gone to?
The Hollywood Strikers -- Writers and actors walked the picket lines this year, causing television and movie production to come to a halt, Time said. Both the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild both came to agreements and are getting back to work.
7%
152 votes
Xi Jinping -- Chinese President Xi Jinping has already been part of Time's 100 list, which honors the most influential people worldwide, 10 times. Xi was also a runner-up for Person of the Year in 2017.
3%
60 votes
Sam Altman -- Sam Altman was the founder and CEO of OpenAI, the maker ChatGPT, and he was recently fired and subsequently rehired by the company. Time has honored him twice for his groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence — on the inaugural Time 100 AI list and the 2023 Time 100 list.
3%
67 votes
Barbie -- The year 2023 came coated in Barbie pink. The live-action "Barbie" movie became the highest-grossing film of 2023, earning $1.4 billion.
4%
84 votes
Vladimir Putin -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine is in its second year. He also held strong against a rebellion by the leader of the mercenary Wagner group, which was ended when a deal was hammered out by Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko. The leader of the mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was killed in a plane crash. Putin has been on Time's 100 list several times and was the publication's Person of the Year in 2007.
2%
38 votes
King Charles III -- The year marked the coronation of King Charles III after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 2022. His mother was named Person of the Year in 1952 when she took the throne.
4%
84 votes
Jerome Powell -- Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell has been trying to curb inflation by raising interest rates slowly so as to not cause a recession. He has been on the Time 100 list twice.
1%
27 votes
Trump Prosecutors -- Former President Donald Trump is facing four separate legal cases in Florida, Georgia, New York and Washington, D.C., and more than 90 charges in those cases alleging election interference, illegally keeping classified documents and falsifying his business records.
7%
155 votes
Taylor Swift is the right choice!
22%
470 votes
Not sure
41%
855 votes
Other (please specify)
5%
108 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.43% | 30 | |
| None of the above | 0.24% | 5 |
| none | 0.14% | 3 |
| NA | 0.14% | 3 |
| Donald Trump | 0.14% | 3 |
| President Donald Trump - Against All Odds | 0.05% | 1 |
| Zelensky-most deserving of any of these, and not a singer making millions | 0.05% | 1 |
| Someone who did good | 0.05% | 1 |
| None of these really deserve it | 0.05% | 1 |
| NA! | 0.05% | 1 |
| who cares | 0.05% | 1 |
| None. The Time is a lefty mag. | 0.05% | 1 |
| None of these, for sure. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Donald Duck | 0.05% | 1 |
| Elon Musk | 0.05% | 1 |
| none of these folks | 0.05% | 1 |
| Lady GaGa | 0.05% | 1 |
| So many other than those listed...sad state of world things if those were the listed candidaties | 0.05% | 1 |
| Trump’s amazing lawyers | 0.05% | 1 |
| do not care | 0.05% | 1 |
| Call it an honor? These are all losers. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Barbie's original Designer Bill Barton. | 0.05% | 1 |
| None of these | 0.05% | 1 |
| The people of Gaza | 0.05% | 1 |
| it is a political award anyway | 0.05% | 1 |
| no one | 0.05% | 1 |
| Angela Bassett and Beyonce | 0.05% | 1 |
| Just none of the above! | 0.05% | 1 |
| Ukrainian president | 0.05% | 1 |
| Jesus Christ | 0.05% | 1 |
| Trump | 0.05% | 1 |
| Ukraine president | 0.05% | 1 |
| UAW | 0.05% | 1 |
| AI | 0.05% | 1 |
| Trump for being the president that was cheated out of his presidency | 0.05% | 1 |
| JUST PICK A GOAT FROM A FARM.!! | 0.05% | 1 |
| Don't follow anyone. | 0.05% | 1 |
| none of these people they all promote evil, violence and Satan | 0.05% | 1 |
| not there are problems here we can so see | 0.05% | 1 |
| Trump himself. Not a popularity contest, the one that makes the most news. Ayatolla Komani won in 1979? | 0.05% | 1 |
| None of those people deserve the cover | 0.05% | 1 |
| Netanyahu holds the key to descalation but is willing to kill innocents in huge numbers. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Donald J. Trump and the Patriots. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Not applicable | 0.05% | 1 |
| Hitler - 1938 Person of the Year | 0.05% | 1 |
| If those were the choices, I'm not surprised she was chosen. | 0.05% | 1 |
| President Trump | 0.05% | 1 |
| all of your choices are terrible | 0.05% | 1 |
| My cat. | 0.05% | 1 |
| It's all BS | 0.05% | 1 |
| Anyone who actually makes a difference in this world. None of above are it | 0.05% | 1 |
| Any number of selfless people who dedicate their lives to helping animals/people. | 0.05% | 1 |
| None of the above. | 0.05% | 1 |
| donald j trump | 0.05% | 1 |
| Me!!! | 0.05% | 1 |
| I wouldn't have picked any of these options. Gee whiz I cannot believe they can't come up with someone beside these folks | 0.05% | 1 |
| Me | 0.05% | 1 |
| Don’t care | 0.05% | 1 |
| The people being persecuted by hamas in Israel. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Irrelevant and boring | 0.05% | 1 |
| Tim Scott | 0.05% | 1 |
| None of the above, how about families trying to put food on the table & heat their homes? | 0.05% | 1 |
| Why not our first responders, our doctors and nurses, other "unknown" heros? | 0.05% | 1 |
| Its BS, they just want sales, she is a pretty girl with a great PR guy. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Lin Wood | 0.05% | 1 |
| NA !! | 0.05% | 1 |
| ...no comment | 0.05% | 1 |
| those were all the choices? | 0.05% | 1 |
| Trump!!! To make all the TDS people shriek | 0.05% | 1 |
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You may not like her music, but there is no doubt she has made a huge mark for herself this year. Which of these achievements did you know about? The Eras tour film became the biggest concert movie of all time, taking $249m (£197m) at the global box office.
23%
476 votes
Swift became the first living artist to have five albums in the US Top 10 simultaneously, with 1989, Midnights, Folklore, Lover and Speak Now.
16%
328 votes
She broke the record for the most number one albums by a woman in US chart history - 13 in total - overtaking Barbara Streisand.
15%
323 votes
Swift became the first songwriter to score seven Grammy nominations for song of the year, overtaking Sir Paul McCartney and Lionel Richie.
12%
248 votes
Boosted by her tour, Swift was named the most-streamed female artist in the history of Spotify and Apple Music.
14%
295 votes
All of them
14%
285 votes
None
41%
865 votes
Not even familiar with her at all
12%
248 votes
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