Person of the Year

Behind Taylor Swift’s POY Cat Cover

By Cady Lang

How Taylor Swift’s AMC Deal Came Together

By Annabel Gutterman

Taylor Swift's Person of the Year Record

By Simmone Shah

Taylor Swift Shares Eras Tour Workout

By Megan McCluskey
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Taylor Swift on Her Beyoncé Friendship

Swift opens up about their relationship, saying that Beyoncé’s support at her film premiere was ‘everything.’

By Cady Lang

Find the Easter Egg in in This Taylor Swift Portrait

Jane Perkins created a portrait of Taylor Swift featuring dozens of Easter eggs. Here’s how she created the image—and a list of the hidden items she included.

By Chelsea Kardokus

Inside TIME’s Person of the Year Issue

"This issue demonstrates how many shapes influence can take."

By Sam Jacobs

Sam Altman Is TIME's 2023 CEO of the Year

Altman emerged as one of the most powerful executives in the world, the public face and leading prophet of a technological revolution.

By Naina Bajekal/San Francisco and Billy Perrigo/San Francisco

Taylor Swift Is TIME's 2023 Person of the Year

'It feels like the breakthrough moment of my career, happening at 33'

By Sam Lansky

Alex Newell Is TIME's 2023 Breakthrough of the Year

Newell spoke to TIME about what it really felt like to win that Tony, their vision for their career as an artist, and their ideal role

By Laura Zornosa

Lionel Messi Is TIME's 2023 Athlete of the Year

Messi managed to do what once seemed impossible: turning the U.S. into a soccer country.

By Sean Gregory

Why Taylor Swift Is Person of the Year

Swift achieved a kind of nuclear fusion: shooting art and commerce together to release an energy of historic force.

By Sam Jacobs

Who Will Be TIME's Person of the Year for 2023? See the Shortlist

Nine candidates are in the running for TIME’s 2023 Person of the Year

By TIME Staff

Why Elon Musk Will Go Down in History

Elon Musk has already earned himself a spot in the pantheon of history’s great innovators, Walter Isaacson writes

By Walter Isaacson

How Person of the Year Elon Musk Built His Fortune

Elon Musk made his money differently than most of today’s famous billionaires. Here's how he did it

By Alejandro de la Garza

Excerpts from Elon Musk's Person of the Year Interview

TIME spoke with Elon Musk at his Boca Chica, Texas, facility on Dec. 3

By TIME Staff

Vaccine Scientists Are TIME's 2021 Heroes of the Year

No one knows for sure where the virus came from. It could have been the murky depths of one of the hundreds of bat caves scattered across China. Carried inside a bat on a nightly...

By Alice Park and Jamie Ducharme

Why TIME Chose Elon Musk as the 2021 Person of the Year

Despite shattering records this year with a net worth above $300 billion, Elon Musk demurs at being described as the richest person in the history of the world. “Excluding sovereigns,” Musk says wryly, adding that...

By Edward Felsenthal

Elon Musk Is TIME's 2021 Person of the Year

Updated: Dec. 13, 2021: 2:09 p.m. The richest man in the world does not own a house and has recently been selling off his fortune. He tosses satellites into orbit and harnesses the sun; he...

By Molly Ball , Jeffrey Kluger and Alejandro de la Garza

Olivia Rodrigo Is TIME's 2021 Entertainer of the Year

The air is musty, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is playing on an ancient TV by the door, and Olivia Rodrigo is flipping through racks of slip dresses and flared pants. “What’s your style?” she asks....

By Lucy Feldman
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