The 2010s permanently changed the Pop music landscape.
From the rise of independent artists to streaming becoming the primary means of consumption and more, the decade simultaneously gifted and cursed the entertainment genre in ways that will undoubtedly be imprinted for years to come.
Yet, while some artists were unable to weather the challenges of the evolving industry, a select few not only navigated the storms but turned the tide to become icons among their generation of musicians. Boasting Beyoncé‘s game changing digital drop and Lady Gaga‘s history-making‘Star is Born’ run to Drake and Ariana Grande‘s blockbuster domination of Spotify, the decade’s set the bar to almost unreachable heights for its successors.
Alas, only one stands above the rest.
As the decade draws to close, many-a-publication lists Taylor Swift as its champion while others have crowned the likes of Kanye West, Rihanna, or Bruno Mars as the act most deserving of the title.
Putting the power in the people’s hands, we turn to you – That Grape Juice faithful – to ask:
Who Is The Artist Of The Decade?
While we’ve taken the privilege of narrowing down the options to 12, the ultimate decision is yours. When voting, we ask that you acknowledge more than sales and accolades (i.e. award wins, RIAA certifications, Billboard stats), but also critical acclaim and impact.
Voting closes on December 19th at 11.59pm EST. The winner will be revealed on December 20th.
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Where’s Janet Jackson?????????
Ima fan but old gal ghosted us for the first half of the decade.
Not intentionally. She was black listed.
Nah girl after mj died Fire she bordeline retired in dubai.
No, it was well before MJ died Thatcher career took a dip. She was blacklisted for years.
Facts
I’m not a fan of any artist on this list, just a casual listener of some. Janet would be my only vote. She worked more in 5 years than Kanye and Adele did in 10. Revise the list!
Janet is an icon and legend and one of my too 5 artists of all time
But artist of THIS decade no.
It’s about who’s been relevent and sold albums and been relevent in pop culture…
Adele GaGa Beyonce & Ed Sheeran
There’s no other 4
Why should she be on that list? Like seriously, she released one Album that was a good Album, but nothing groundbreaking either.
WAIT, this is the first time I noticed Discountmila’s picture up there lmao…if y’all don’t delete that bish! She fckn up the flow ?
https://tenor.com/view/spit-take-laugh-lmao-gif-9271200
She’s hardly the new Madonna, is she ?
@Shayla, screaming ?
Bruno
B ?
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In terms of Sales, Adele
Taylor Swift ended Beyonce and Katy Perry, but Goddess Rihanna will no doubt.
Rihanna ? ?
But who anticipates Taylor’s era’s? Do her lyrics and catchphrases impact pop culture? Are educational studies being taught to study her? Taylor is extremely popular but has zero cultural impact.
Yes she has big impact in pop and country culture like you don’t even know
You are ABSOLUTELY right! Nobody is trying to be the next Taylor Swift because she is what’s wrong with the music industry, No hate but her name being mentioned in the same stratosphere as Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Whitney, Mariah, Streisand, Celine, Beyonce, etc. is making a total mockery of music. The only cultural impact she has made is a downgrade of musicality!
Lady Gaga because she had 2 #1 albums with grammies and #1 songs. She also starred in a Top movie and got noms for multiple genre`s at the Oscars
Music artist not acting. And it’s rihanna
I agree with Rihanna being the artist of the decade
But beyonce had 3 numner 1 albums, starred in a higher grossing movie and won 24 g4grammy’and didn’t need a movie to revive her career sorry not sorry bye
For me, it’s about ALL the artists that define a decade, not just one! When I think of the 80’s, 90’s, 00’s and 10’s, I think of a bunch of artists that helped to define music pop culture for that moment in time…so I’d say all the artists pictured did that for the 10’s…ain’t nobody Michael Jackson, Prince or Madonna, and even THEY had to share the 80’s and 90’s with multiple superstars..so yeah, all dem artists at the top of this page did just that lol…whoever put this together found the right pictures too ?
Its missing Rihanna so they did a terrible job
When FLOPmila’s tour gets cancelled, will they deduct the tour bundle sales from her first week flop? Like damn she performed three times in one night I’m the AMAs and did 50k pure sales, yikes. Normani has the biggest radio hit of the year worldwide, no album out! 2020 our girl is coming.
Has nor released any music as of late? Because I haven’t heard from her since Sam Smith added her to his song. Nor will never have a Havana. Point blank
Who cares juju? No one brought her up.
Sam added her to the song? That’s funny because they wrote it together in the studio lol
Queen Bey changed the game in 2013 with self titled and again with Lemonade. These Wh0r3s don’t compare to quality like that.
With more than seventy writers per song? And most of each song also being ripped off from somebody else? B**** GTFO dumb broad!
Hard to pick between Adele and Bey until u take into account GLASTONBURY, COACHELLA, LEMONADE, ON THE RUN, THE SUPERBOWL, MRS CARTER, SELF TITLED, 4, LION KING, THE 6 IASF GRAMMY WINS, ARTIST OF MILLENIUM WMA AWARD And FORMATION .
Adele is Close 2nd. ?
IASF was released in 2008 so it’s not counted as this decade.
2010 grammys was this decade, iasf won 6 making history
No she did not. She won 6 Grammys in 2009.
Actually it was the 2010 Grammys! You can look it up and her I AM world tour didn’t evens until February of 2010. Her “Why don’t you love me” video came out in 2010 as well!
With more than seventy writers per song? And most of each song also being ripped off from somebody else? B**** GTFO dumb broad!
Why are white artists such as taylor swift, lady gaga ariana grande etc allowed to have 10 to 39 writers write their album (and you can check the writers credits for proof) but beyonce isnt allowed to. Beyonce has never even had up to 20 writers for a song like other pop stars talk less 70 to 100 writers for one album and at least her work is critically acclaimed and she is heavily involved in the production and creation of her iconic discography
Taylor Swift the Queen
?? Lies ?? Detected.
@HavanaOnana I definitely second the motion that Taylor Swift is the biggest artist right now and also this decade
The one that comes close is Lady Gaga
And then Pink
You are actually delusional no offence first of all lady gaga???? PINK??!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 when last did lady gaga sell 300k first week at least or lets say 280k, she is talented but has bs discography and her fan base and longetivity isnt there. She is respected but not a popular figure or super famous like back in 2010 and pink I even forgot about her. Her last hit was in 2012 and her last commercial era was in the 2000s now bbye
How is Fistopher Brown even on the list of nominees? And the winner is clearly Drake.
Clearly its Beyonce and Lady Gaga.
Rihanna and Nicki are a close 2nd/3rd
Taylor, Adele, Kanye, Drake, Bruno……sorry not sorry
Why is it? She is a thief.
artist of the decade who ripped off half of her stuff…
All I can is Beyonce ain’t winning s***, that’s all there is to it.
Agreed. She copies everything. The industry is a joke..
First of all beyonce has never lost when someone sues her unlike other rich musicians so you can’t say beyonce pays the judge lol. Taylor swift, Jennifer lopez, Drake, cardi b, etc have all copied beyonce but no one wants to say anything or how Taylor swift’s “wildest dreams” sounds ALOT like lana del rey’s “without you” or how Olivia Rodriguez has been called out for how her ENTIRE album has been taking from others or how lady gaga took so much from Madonna etc. Stop pretending you can use that as a point when even your favourite musician does it even though no one talks about it. You only know about it because beyonce is unproblematic so they bring up small things
Musical Impact – Beyonce
Trendsetter – Rihanna
Commercial – Adele
Musical Impact – Nicki
she opened the door for Cardi who then opened the door for the new female rappers wave.
GOD ICON status – Rihanna+Lady Gaga. in the 00s’ Britney+Beyonce
Commercial – Adele+drake
Nah that door BEEN open since Lil Kim ??♂️
If we are talking about who was consistent on all fronts, it would be Rihanna, Taylor or drake.
Drake albums always perform well but his singles didn’t start topping the charts until the ending of the decade. Taylor has been consistent with both albums and singles but to me her music hasn’t been progressive.
Out of everyone, Rihanna has not only been consistent each era but both her music and sales has been progressive. She’s the only music who really pushes the envelope with each album and keeps us anticipated.
consistent on all fronts…
Rihanna????
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO, Consistantly canceling or reschuling tour dates? Consistent in discounting alvums for chance at #1 and giving away 1 mill for platium plat. Had to cancel all stadiums for anti tour, Last tour FLOPPED. Consistently playing Extras in flop movies. Unapologetic sold less than TTT anti sold less than unapologetic and stalled at 600k. Only 1 Grammy nid for AOY her whole career(loud), anti didn’t win any Grammy at all btw.
Yeah pretty consistent.
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Adele or Drake.
Taylor Swift
As per usual ?? & ?? are in the top s***..
low key Drake had the most influence sonically and overall charts w singles and albums impact
King Payola??♂️
Kendrick Lamar (13 Grammys, 3 #1 albums, 1 #1 soundtrack album, 1 Pulitzer, 3 classic albums)
I was wondering why Kendrick isn’t on the list too… Let’s not forget that the biggest movie this decade’s soundtrack black panther was him
Rihanna (and she hasn’t recorded an album in foreva).
Nicki Minaj
Artists of the decade:
Dolly Parton
Reba Mc Entire
Carrie Underwood
Miranda Lambert
Dixie Chicks
Jason ALDEAN
Blake Shelton
Taylor Swift
Billy Ray Cyrus
How can the biggest selling most influential artist of All Time through racism and all not be on that list? Michael has had 2 mega careers and has influenced the majority of people making music in some way shape or form. The dude was so good the only way they
could beat him was to try to taint his name!!!!!
Country artists*
I can tell you who shouldn’t be on this list at all:
– Adele
– Lady Gaga
– Kanye West
And Swift can kick rocks too.
Lies!
On a blog that stans, lives, does, and kills for Beyonce, this poll is absolutely pointless. That said, Beyonce has had the biggest impact on the last ten years in the music industry.
Adele, Rihanna or Taylor. They each ran pop music in totally different ways from the beginning to the end of the 2010s
Rihanna changed music and fashion!!
Bruno Mars is w/o a doubt the artist of the decade. Not only has he excelled on sales, won top honors at all award shows (including the Grammys AOTY), done the super bowl, crosseD over multi genres, had the touring game on lock, Supplied top notch videos, supplied top notch performances with live singing and dancing BUT TO TOP IT OFF, Bruno has wrote hits for other artists like Adele, like brandy, Adam Levine, Cee-lo Green.. no other artist on here has that to their credit. Bruno is the entire full package.
Beyonce is fat and washed up FLOP
A flop ?? 350 million plus networth
Super bowl
Glastonbury
Coachella
Changed the game with that digital drop
Wow that’s a good flop ????
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No matter how you spin it, you can’t say that when you compare the majority of her work from 2010-2017. Only her lion king sound track is what you can get away with…
She’s a very fat and ugly flop. Deal with it
I dont know what picture you are seeing but its definitely 2019 pictures not 2021 pictures because beyonce looks really good and the only flop Is lady gaga and britney spears lol. All 6 of beyonce’s albums went numner 1 and amongst top 10 highest selling album globally check ifpi for proof beyonce will NEVER have her own album flop. Her huge fan base won’t let it to be honest, beyonce is so talented and unproblematic, how can she have haters 😂 and dont say “hER fAnS” thats not an excuse because all fan bases have those type of people, that doesn’t mean you treat her like this especially when no one is bothering you
Shareefa
Shareefa
Shareefa
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Yo the artist of the decade is her
U can remove nicki
Mariah Carey
The Queen BEY? Bcuz she is Queen BEY. And none of the talentless b****** had iconic and artistic albums like Lemonade and self titled
And no other artist only sold 940 copies in the UK and 9k in the US!!! Legendary flop!
That’s not even her album though lmao. Thats a soundtrack album she was on alongside over 20 more artists. Why don’t you talk about her self titled that went number 1 for 3 weeks or lemonade which is the most awarded album of all time AND the highest selling global album of 2016. I get it you are quite T0XIC and like to bash people but you lack facts and I won’t bother myself anymore answering you
Where is jlo?
This is buggy. I check mark my person but there is no submit button…
Beyoncé the fact she is still in the conversation 20 years later says it all. Rihanna umm she is more a businesswoman now so she doesn’t count literally forgot she was ever a musician. Adele sales are great but other than that she has no real impact. Drake is a b**** whose success is bizarre. The rest their careers are a flop away from being irrelevant.
Cardi B why is Nicki Minaj on here she had the worst year ever tf
How you going to compare a queen to a rat?
lets not because nicki has the biggest impact on not only rap itself but music so watch out
lets not because nicki has the biggest impact on not only rap itself but music so watch out
Beyoncé is artist of the decade
#940 copies sold In the UK
#9k copies sold in the US
The top 10 artist of the decade based on charts, sales, popularity, tours, social media followers, impact, views, streams, hit songs global success and cash and awards is :
1. Justin Bieber
2. Adele
3. Drake
4. Taylor swift
5. Beyonce
6. Rihanna
7. Bruno mars
8. Katy perry
9. Ed sheeran
10. Eminem. Facts
Beyonce only had successful tours. She didn’t have any number ones or massive selling Albums. All her albums were only hyped up first week and having a surprise album doesn’t mean she is artists of the decade.
Comparing to other artists she hadn’t been that strong touring like her team and obsessed fans want us to think…
If you check wikipedia in the 2010’s she isn’t even on the top 20 and has just one tour on the list in 21.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_concert_tours
You guys are so delusional, pink??? Lady gaga?? Those irrelevant has been? No the top 10 artist of the decade in terms of relevancy is
10. Eminem
9. Ed sheeran
8. Katy perry
7. Bruno mars
6. Rihanna
5. Beyonce
4. Taylor swift
3. Drake
2. Adele
1. Justin Bieber
Lmao keep telling yourself that till you believe it, beyonce had the highest grossing tour of 2016 winning Adele, Drake, justin bieber and every other artist that year and had the highest selling album globally outselling Rihanna and Drake, she is the most awarded loving artist and the lion king soundtrack album was unpromoted and wasnt even her own album lmao. Stop trying so hard to make beyonce seem like a flop when you won’t get this sensitive if you didn’t think people knew and loved her cause she us HUGE
Lies!!!!! Lemonade was the top selling album in 2016! Outsold Drake and RiRi (no shade)!
I think it’s silly to compare people’s achievements.
Obviously more than one artist had a great decade.
But I guess it’s like award shows and such, only one winner per category when several people deserve to win.
Ed Sheeran really was at the top of the game with several albums.
Bruno did amazing as well. So did Drake.
For Justin B and T, it was inconsistent.
For females I’d say Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Adele and Taylor.
Katy’s career started suffering with the 4th album but she had a strong decade as well.
Ariana is THE emerging talent of the decade.
For Nicki it was inconsistent but she was the leading female rapper.
Regarding Camila, time will tell as that sophomore album is clearly underperforming.
You forgot Rihanna
Lil wayne?
Why isn’t his picture up there. He signed Nicki and Drake and manage his own career as well.
F*** Beyonce
Honestly, in spite of the fact I don’t check for her, Taylor Swift owned this decade. Then Drake and lastly Adele. Definitely not Beyoncé nor Rihanna or Lady Gaga.
Rihanna had loads of hits though even though most were collabs and features, beyonce was just as huge or even huge compared to the 2000s she had loads of top 20 and 10 singles eg love on top, sorry, hold up, formation etc and all 3 of her albums went number 1 selling first week sales of 310k 617k and 653k lady gaga on the other hand after the fame era in 2009 and 2010 she flopped and became so Irrelevant till today but a star is born saved her which was a role originally meant for beyonce
Last choice Taylor Swift. Hard as it is to admit… Music really went down the drain this decade.
The true culprits who really tried to take music down the gutter didn’t make it on this list, those lil drug pushers ? But you can say Mariah saved the decade in the nick of time tho lol ? ❄️ ?
With a 25 year old cheesy Christmas song that will be forgotten by New Years? Lol yeah right, she saved nothing, this decade of music was still trash.
@Gworl GONE, Mariah is #1 right now..let that SINK into your hatin asss soul ? What can you say that hasn’t been said, that’s what I wanna hear! ?? And if you think this decade of music is a dumpster fire, then that’s your opinion…Mariah #1 tho, HOEE ?
https://tenor.com/view/mariah-carey-songbird-gif-10255761
Not to despise Mariah but Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Three is 3rd this week the song is from 1958 it didn’t chart until 1960 when charted 14.
She only had a number 1 in her career.
Today she has 75yo, is touring smaller arenas mostly in the heart of the country and didn’t make anything for it to chart again.
So MC’s accomplishment is a gem but isn’t that unique.
Let’s be honest here taylor wasnt the artist of the decade neither is she so popular but she is very successful she debuted with a rich privileged family who bought her everything she needed and gave her commercial usa genre’s that make people buy your albums hence she sells more albums but her singles aren’t that huge, how many times did taylor give any over 20k FREE tickets to gross out stadium tour or buy views or something, huge success other than albums she always has to pull tricks, she barely had any actual hits in the 2010s apart from 1989 era unlike Adele, beyonce, Drake, Rihanna, bruno mars and justin bieber. Justin Bieber for the past decade is the biggest superstar in music
I meant to vote for Adele.
None of the above.
Well done to Taylor swift
Katy Perry and Demi Lovato are the artists of the decade and I don’t wanna here NOTHING!
Right
If that’s what you feel you go girl
Where’s JUNES DIARY ON THIS LIST?!
SCREAMING ?
Adele! An artist who can sell 3.4 million PHYSICAL copies in only 7 days obviously deserves to be remembered as Artist of the Decade!!!
She can be the whale of the decade
Don’t talk about your mother like that! You should be grateful to her that you exist – she nearly swallowed you!!!
beyonce. https://youtu.be/TzyYbtwtKgc
Riri
ROSALÍA ??
Poor Payolonce falling behind Taylor and always being second best lol
Omg no Bey!!’
She’s falling behind Katy and Taylor oh no
Beyonce is still the most awarded living artist of all time and the first artist to have 6 albums consecutively go number 1 plus the first and only female artist of the 21st century to gross over 1 BILLION in tour and starred in the highest grossing Disney remake EVER. She definitely is huge globally only in usa charts taylor wins lol
The fact that Taylor is winning with 31% of the vote is killing me!
Agree. I believe this is racial issue because at what point did she become the bigger artist. Poll on songs and lyrics next guaranteed a “guess this artist ” poll would leave to correct answers
She is a bigger artist now though
Whether you like it or not
I would love Beyoncé to win too but It’s Taylor time this decade
Nicki Minaj deserves it
I never leave a post but this is insane. Now Taylor I understand getting a high court vote but Katy Perry over most artist on here? This is clearly a joke and the numbers are all lies. #1 DRAKE has sold and made more music than most in last decade#2 Beyonce is clearly the biggest artist we seen in a century hell damn a decade, I believe this has turned into a racial thing dont let the blacks win.
Wrog!
Nicki Minaj should be the #1 there not fraudyonce and drakepayola
Your opinion sis. Mines is not up for argument
I respect your opinion but in reality people will support or vote for artist that they love more or more drawn into regardless of all the hype, talent, race, smoke and mirrors or achievements.
Now that I agree with.
Since my girl Riri is not on top 5
I’ll go for Adele, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift
Katy I respect her craft, she has popular and number one singles but I’ll go for the three ladies
My girl Taylor! ?
drake
Literally Beyoncé! Biggest tours, game changing albums, and she became the most awarded artist of all time! How dare you all compare her to the likes of Taylor, Rihanna and Drake! Taylor hasn’t been relevant since 1989! Lemonade outsold Drake and Rihanna’s 2016 albums. BEYONCÉ transformed the music industry in 2013; b**** sold 80k in 3hrs, 800K in 3 days! That’s something that had NEVER been done before! Then you have Coachella, Glastonbury, Superbowl x2, Iconic Pepsi commercial, Global Citizens, MIA, & so much more!
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Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry for the win
Swish swish bish another one in the basket???
Congrats Queen Taylor for winning here. U dessserve the vote. You proved haters wrong and they seething for jealousy
Even though I wanted Adele to win so bad, is okay coz Taylor won
Periodt
I’m so glad u defeated Katy and yonce lol
You bash people for being “haters” then say you are happy she won beyonce, in terms of tours,, awards, money and global fame then beyonce, the only reason taylor sells albums is because she debuted selling country music, she isnt the only country artist to sell millions of album or over 1 million or at least 500k first week.
Fearless tour the beyonce experience
118 shows 96 shows
63 million 90m
Speak now tour I am… world tour
104.2m 120m
110 shows 108 shows
Red tour The Mrs carter show
86 shows 132 shows
69% usa 28% in the usa but by the 86th
Show it made 150m
Made 150m made 230m
1989 tour formation tour
85 shows 49 shows
250.7m 256.1m
That proves beyonce wins at tours and we already know beyonce wins at awards and cash just check forbes
What other artist grossed 256.1 million with only 49 shows? Lmao 🤣, you are in denial. She had the highest grossing tour of 2016. She hasa tour gross of 1.1 billion. The only touring artist that is better than her is Madonna. Beyonce also had 3 number 1 albums out of her studio albums and had top 10 and 20 singles eg formation, d.i.l, love on top, best thing I never had, 7 11, etc accept it or not beyonce was huge this 2010s, talking about an unpromoted soundtrack album that sold 9k in the usa first of all not only was that great album barely promoted but it wasn’t even hers. It sold 11k first week in the usa not even globally and we don’t know how much it sold now probably over 500k and it peaked at number 2 on billboard 200 plus it isn’t even her album