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Since 1927, TIME has chosen a Person of the Year, the editors’ assessment of the individual who most shaped the headlines over the previous 12 months, for better or for worse._  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 6, 2023 12:51 PM UTC  Beyoncé joined Swift in Los Angeles on Oct. 11 for the first screening of her Eras Tour film Beyoncé joined Swift in Los Angeles on Oct. 11 for the first screening of her Eras Tour film John Shearer—Getty Images for TAS  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 6, 2023 12:51 PM UTC This year was a testament to the power of two women in music: [Taylor Swift](https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567666/taylor-swift/) and [Beyoncé](https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269881/beyonce-2023/), whose respective stadium tours took them worldwide, delighting fans, dominating the discourse, and breaking records in the process. Both artists were credited with giving the U.S. economy a much-needed boost with their tours, to the tune of an estimated $5.4 billion. That number will only continue to grow as fans flock to their concert movies: [Swift’s _Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour_](https://time.com/6323858/taylor-swift-the-eras-tour-movie-review/)_,_ which released on Oct. 13, and [Beyoncé’s _Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé_](https://time.com/6341245/beyonce-renaissance-movie-review/), which hit theaters on Dec. 1. The fact that these two women artists in their primes were both on tour at the same time, and both releasing concert films at around the same time in the same groundbreaking way, meant that they were often held up against one another, despite their distinct sounds, styles, and fanbases. It’s nothing new for successful women to be pitted against each other in the public eye; instead, rumors of a budding friendship were bolstered when Beyoncé attended the premiere of the Eras Tour movie in Los Angeles in October, where the pair posed for a photo op together, and continued when Swift attended the London premiere of _Renaissance_ in late November. In her [2023 Person of the Year interview with TIME](https://time.com/6342806/person-of-the-year-2023-taylor-swift/), Swift opened up about her relationship with Beyoncé, saying that Beyoncé’s support at her film premiere was "everything." She describes the _Lemonade_ singer as "the most precious gem of a person." Says Swift, “When I'm talking to her, she is so warm and open and funny.” She also credits Beyoncé as a trailblazer in the music industry, especially when it comes to handling her business affairs. "She's such a great disruptor of music-industry norms. She taught every artist how to flip the table and challenge archaic business practices," Swift said, noting that the pair discussed their [AMC deals](https://time.com/6342992/taylor-swift-amc-eras-tour-movie-deal/). "She's always thinking in an innovative way." **Read More:** [_Taylor Swift Shares Her Eras Tour Workout and Self-Care Regimen_](https://time.com/6343028/taylor-swift-workout-routine-eras-tour/) The fact that she and Beyoncé are often assumed to be in competition, in media narratives and in online forums, isn't lost on Swift, who alluded to the sexism inherent in framing two women artists as rivals. "There were so many stadium tours this summer,” she said. “But the only ones that were compared were me and Beyoncé. Clearly it’s very lucrative for the media and stan culture to pit two women against each other, even when those two artists in question refuse to participate in that discussion.” The female rivalry narrative is hardly new to Swift and Beyoncé, who have both been among the most successful music artists in the world for the better part of two decades. It began to follow them in 2009, when rapper Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, interrupted a then-20-year-old Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video at the MTV Video Music Awards, saying it should have gone to Beyoncé. What’s less often remembered is Beyoncé gracefully inviting Swift to join her on stage after she won Video of the Year for “Single Ladies” later that night so that Swift could have a chance to give her acceptance speech. **Read More:**[ _The Inspiration Behind Inez and Vinoodh’s Taylor Swift TIME Person of the Year Covers_](https://time.com/6343115/taylor-swift-covers-inspiration-inez-vinoodh) All these years later, Swift makes the case that she and Beyoncé have bigger goals than dignifying petty rumors or Internet chatter. In doing so, she hopes that a new and more positive narrative emerges. “I think it's radical and beautiful that the two of us actively reject that conversation,” she said. “I know we've evolved past that conversation because she and I are trying to do bigger things.” ## Transcript She's been this for the light in the world this year. She brought to so many people together like a community to it's not even just hurt. It just made me feel like I wasn't alone and I wasn't crazy for feeling the way that it was feeling we grew up together. We all went through the same things together the stadium and it feels like you're with her one-on-one. Friendship bracelets are a huge part of the areas for these bracelets are so important exchanging special handmade friendship bracelet all goes back to Taylor song. You're on your own kid. So my friends and I got tickets to the arrows toward we had about two hundred bracelets made. We just couldn't stop you really just had a good time doing it. You realize 200 very slick was way too many for us to all bring in trade can actually came up with the idea to put them on at Sea until then. I went to bed. I woke up the next morning and we had over three hundred bracelets on order. It's like five six seven. I'm going to have to make sure you got done with so many we weren't expecting to get much money a couple hundred dollars at the most this morning. I ran the numbers and we're at $19,000 in sales The Heirs to his my Roman Empire, I think about it all the time every day. I hear a song. That's a great price that song. That's a good thing to put on a bracelet this business definitely keep us in touch two of us over Massachusetts the other two live in Connecticut. Now, we have to meet up and trade bracelets drop off talking with every single day. Keep making more songs Taylors. I went to the reputation tour. I was right next to a security guard. So we struck up a conversation and he told me about the gig they have a couple years later. I found some free time. So I picked up that job ultimately to try and work the Taylor Swift concert with working on the floor kind of right along the edge of her stage after night one. I made little pieces of paper that asked the audience if they could take photos of me with Taylor Swift in the background and text it to me. When she came right behind me, there were a ton of fans and I had to look at the fans by saw all of their faces light up when she gets near them and it was just a sight even if I wasn't looking at her on that date. I think the squeal is Mom. They had me Neil up on the stage and I see Taylor Swift coming to a nice Knights worth fixing Young Band to give that hat tube during the song 22. I was already working with Taylor's water up team and they approached me to do the classical order for the video for 22. The connection could she have with her fan in the moment? You are so emotional for me to see it was so beautiful. Baylor's name power so many women with her music and to me and be part of the always. I'm trying to empower women with my Craftsman and be together is so beautiful to me. I always loved you from the moment. I want to propose I wanted to do it at Taylor Swift concert. I just never thought I would you do I water the logistics of that. How long wait at the once-in-a-lifetime set the thing I was like, okay, I've got to figure out how is it going with the ring one? I need to see where exactly in the lyrics I have to kneel down to Nelly. All I could think of is what is the line? I need to go down one. Two to three weeks before the actual date of the score. Yeah. I never told him I would play the song whenever I would go to work and whenever I would come back just to make sure it's okay. This is the part that I have to mail them. You got so many different angles of the proposal and I have some of those saved as like Swifty section 326 never seen so much brightness and glitter up around all at once, but I've never been a part of such a supportive Community like that. I just knew that when I proposed to Nick I needed a letter to be a part of it because she's been such momenta simpactful person predict his whole life and as much as I love her too, it just felt like this is something I don't want Nick to remember forever. I want everything. He loves to be a part of the experience from She's been there on the hardest days of my life and she's been there for the best day of my life. 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