concert ticketing model. Various sources deem Swift's music a paradigm representing the millennial generation; Vox called her the "millennial Bruce Springsteen", and The Times named her "the Bob Dylan of our age". Swift earned the title Woman of the Decade (2010s) from Billboard, Artist of the Decade (2010s) at the American Music Awards, and Global Icon—"in recognition of her immense impact on music across the world"—at the Brit Awards. She is a subject of academic study; her music and fame are popular topics of scholarly media research. The University of Texas at Austin, New York University, and Queen's University at Kingston offer courses on Swift in literary and sociopolitical contexts. Professor Elizabeth Scala dubs Swift a bridge between contemporary and historical fiction. Conservation scientist Jeff Opperman opined in The New York Times that Swift's songs are "filled with the language and images of the natural world", reviving nature in popular culture after a reported decline in nature-themed words. Her songs like "Love Story" are studied by evolutionary psychologists to understand the relationship between popular music and human mating strategies. Economist Alan Krueger devised his concept "rockonomics"—a microeconomic analysis of the music industry—using Swift, whom he considered an "economic genius". In 2022, entomologists named a new millipede species, Nannaria swiftae, in her honor. Accolades and achievements Swift has won 12 Grammy Awards (including three for Album of the Year—tying for the most by an artist), an Emmy Award, 40 American Music Awards (the most won by an artist), 29 Billboard Music Awards (the most won by a woman), 92 Guinness World Records, 14 MTV Video Music Awards (including three Video of the Year wins—the most by an act), 12 Country Music Association Awards (including the Pinnacle Award), eight Academy of Country Music Awards, and two Brit Awards. As a songwriter, she has been honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the National Music Publishers' Association and was the youngest person on Rolling Stone list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time in 2015. At the 64th BMI Awards in 2016, Swift was the first woman to be honored with an award named after its recipient. In 2023, Swift became the first act to be named the global best-selling artist of the year by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) thrice. From available data, Swift has amassed over 50 million album sales, 150 million