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Ebola Fighters Beat Taylor Swift For Time's Person Of The Year Title

12/11/2014
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(Radio.com) Taylor Swift had a good year, nay, a great year. She went pop. She was the first artist to sell a million records this year making her one of the biggest artists of 2014. She took on Spotify and (maybe) won, or at the very least, got a conversation of proper compensation started.

But, while she is a very important person in music, she is not Time's Person of the Year. Swift was on the magazine's shortlist for the prestigious honor, alongside Russian Presiden Vladimir Putin, Apple CEO Tim Cook, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

She made the cut because, as the magazine explained, she's "one of the world's top-selling pop artists, who this year shook up the music industry by pulling her music from streaming service Spotify, which she believes should compensate artists more."

But, Time's Person of the Year is--drumroll, please--the Ebola fighters. Read more here.

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