Taylor Swift named Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’. Her reaction

Taylor Swift has been named Time's 2023 Person of the Year.

Taylor Swift is having a stellar year. After the record-breaking success of her Eras Tour, the singer-songwriter has capped 2023 by being named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’.

In its annual issue honoring a Person of the Year -- a nearly century-old designation whose recipients include Volodymyr Zelensky, Martin Luther King Jr. and Greta Thunberg -- the magazine called music's reigning deity a "rare person who is both the writer and hero of her own story."

“Swift’s accomplishments as an artist—culturally, critically, and commercially—are so legion that to recount them seems almost beside the point,” Time Magazine said – and went on to detail her achievements as a pop star, a businesswoman and a celebrity and a woman under constant public scrutiny.

For her cover interview, Taylor Swift, 33, posed with her cat Benjamin Button, who also found an honourable mention in her tweet reacting to being named Time’s 2023 Person of the Year.

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Me: Can I bring my cat. https://t.co/SOhkYKSTwG — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) December 6, 2023

Even with her remarkable career trajectory, 2023 has been an exceptionally successful year for Swift. Her Eras tour is set to bring in an estimated $2 billion in revenue.

Her sprawling empire is today worth $1 billion, by some estimates.

"Taylor Swift found a way to transcend borders and be a source of light," Time editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs wrote in a statement. "Much of what Swift accomplished in 2023 exists beyond measurement."

"She mapped her journey and shared the results with the world: she committed to validating the dreams, feelings and experiences of people, especially women, who felt overlooked and regularly underestimated."

To become Time’s Person of the Year, Swift edged out others on the shortlist like Chinese President Xi Jinping, Britain’s King Charles III, Barbie and OpenAI’s Sam Altman (named Time’s CEO of the Year).