#393 Taylor Swift, '1989' (2014)

This entry is going to be incredibly polarising. Nothing invokes passion in people like Taylor Swift, regardless of which side of the fence you sit. I’ll preface this by saying that pop music is massively important to the ecosystem and economy of music. Simply put, thanks to artists like Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran etc., labels, publishers, touring companies and the like are able to release music/tour artists with less commercial appeal. I’m not saying that without them the others wouldn’t exist, but they help.