Billboard, the official U.S. chart publication, has crowned Lady Gaga as queen of the pop charts by naming her artist of the year, reports Teen Music.
Although Gaga’s The Fame and The Fame Monster albums were launched in 2008 and 2009 respectively, both of them contained enough singles to generate the enthusiastic sales for Billboard to name the singer as their artist of 2010.
The Poker Face hitmaker dominated both the Billboard 200 albums and the Hot 100 singles. With The Fame and The Fame Monster albums at the top of the 2010 charts, Gaga was a natural choice for the prestigious honour.
Lady Gaga beat out Taylor Swift, preventing her from winning the honour for a second year in a row.
Founded in 1894, Billboard magazine is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world, and maintains several international recognized music charts.