Taylor Swift Named The Top Artist of 2010 was a top 11 story of 2011 for January. Here is the recap: Taylor Swift has been named Billboard & Nielsen SoundScan's top-selling artist of 2010 with over 4.4 million albums sold last year, according to sales figures released this week.This is the second time in three years that she has earned that distinction as Taylor was also SoundScan's top-selling artist in 2008, and her Fearless album was 2009's biggest-selling CD.
For the second consecutive year, Taylor is Billboard's most-played artist, topping their annual all-genre Artist Airplay chart with more than 1.128 million airplay detections in 2010.
In addition, with over 34 million tracks sold to date, Taylor remains the top selling digital artist in music history, again holding the #1 position atop Billboard's chart of Top Selling Digital Artists. - more on this story
This Thanksgiving weekend we are looking back at the top 11 Day in Pop stories for each month of 2011. See the other Top 11 of 11 stories here
