MUMBAI: Taylor Swift may have missed out on getting a Grammy this year, but the 25 year old has been honoured with another prestigious award. While rehearsing for her performance at the upcoming BRIT awards, Swift was presented with the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) Global Recording Artist award by the organisation's CEO- Frances Moore.

The award certifies the ‘Shake if Off’ singer as the world’s most popular recording artist for 2014, in all music formats including streaming, downloads and physical sales. Swift, whose career record sales surpasses 130 million song downloads and 40 million albums, led the chart which features other big names in music, including Coldplay, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Pink Floyd, Sam Smith and others.

When released in October 2014, '1989', Swift’s fifth studio album, topped iTunes sales charts in more than 95 countries, and till date has sold more than 8.6 million albums. The album sold 1.2 million copies in the US in the first week of its release, making it the highest selling release since Eminem's 2002 album ‘The Eminem Show’. The global pop superstar is the youngest Grammy winner for Album of the year, for her 2008 release ‘Fearless’. She is the first music act, since the Beatles, to spend six weeks or more in the top spot in the US with three successive albums, and is also the only artist in music history to have three of her albums sell more than a million copies in the first week of release.

Despite pulling her catalogue off Spotify late last year, Swift managed to take the Global Recording Artist award from last year’s winner One Direction, who took second place this year. The UK pop sensation were followed by fellow Brit artists- Ed Sheeran and Coldplay in third and fourth place, and rock legends AC/DC in fifth spot.

Rounding up the top ten positions were Michael Jackson (6), Pink Floyd (7), Sam Smith (8), Katy Perry (9) and Beyonce (10).