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As of December 2024, American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars is the artist with the most monthly listeners. He is followed by Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd, who was the first artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners, while American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift was the first female artist and second overall. [18]
American music magazine Billboard had previously named the greatest pop star of every year since 1981, with essay tributes for each artist. In 2024, to mark the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, Billboard decided to make a list of the artists who have defined popular culture, music and stardom, and been the "most important and most impactful" over the past 25 years.
Coldplay are considered one of the most influential groups of the 21st century. [8] According to Steve Baltin from Forbes, they have become the standard for the contemporary alternative scene, while their "consistent performing and adventuresome work" led them grow "into one of the finest live bands in all of music". [9]
The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World is a nonfiction social sciences and sociology book by sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson (born 1942).
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:21st-century African-American artists and Category:21st-century American male artists and Category:21st-century Native American artists and Category:21st-century American women artists The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
In Britain, in the 1990s, contemporary art became a part of popular culture, with artists becoming stars, but this did not lead to a hoped-for "cultural utopia". [24] Some critics like Julian Spalding and Donald Kuspit have suggested that skepticism, even rejection, is a legitimate and reasonable response to much contemporary art. [ 25 ]
20th century – Radical feminist: 1940–2024: Kaia Wilson: United States: 20th century – Third-wave feminist: 1940–2024: Alice Wolfson: United States: 20th century – 1940–2024: Sande Zeig: United States: 20th century – [161] 1940–2023 Rita Puspa Zakaria Indonesia 20th century – Muslim civil servant and women's rights activist [162]
She was dubbed the reigning "queen of popular culture" or the "queen of global culture" by writers and academics Marsha Kinder and Vincent Ryan Ruggiero in the 1990s. [51] [52] Madonna's impact wadded turning into the 21st century, but she continued to left a mark and been retrospectively recognized by others.