I am not really into favoring an artist over the other since I respect their talents. But the buzz going on regarding Beyonce’s being better than Taylor Swift can’t really be true. It’s no doubt Beyonce has the better experience in the music industry because she’s been in it way longer than Taylor Swift. And I really do hope she will still win without having her experiences/talents go wasted.

Alright, now see the active duration along with numbers of awards winning and nominated for.

Beyonce Knowles:
Source

1990-Present
Won 97
Nominated 232
Percentage: 97/232 = 42%

That’s 42% in 20 years period of experience.
Quick bad calculation gives an average of 2.1% per year.

Taylor Swift:
Source

2006-Present
Won 50
Nominated 63
Percentage: 50/63

That’s 79% in 4 years period of experience.
Quick bad calculation gives an average of 19.75% per year.

You may also argue and wish to look from numbers of awards nominated only perspective.

Beyonce: 232 nominated in 20 years (11.6 nominations per year)
Taylor Swift: 63 in 4 years (15.76 nominations per year)

Understandably you may also wish to defend from the quality of awards viewpoint.

Keep in mind that that isn’t possible yet due to one being a starter, the other being an aging one in the music industry resulting in mismatch numbers of albums, singles, videos and downloads sold.

Now you want to also compare them according to your definition of talent?

No problem. But there’s a slide problem, you can’t really compared “shaking” and “guitar playing” or songs based on different backgrounds. I’ll let the commenters/readers decide!

So is Beyonce really better than Taylor Swift? Beyonce no doubt has many experiences and thus more talented but with the awards nominated and actual winning ratios compared to the duration in the industry, is she really?

Wondered by:
Kaung | KMKBlog