Troye SivanWest Australian prodigy Troye Sivan has been named as one of Time magazine's 25 most influential teenagers, making the list next to some of the youngest and brightest from the fields of music, arts, fashion, business, sport, hospitality, activism, politics and media.
The nod puts Sivan in the company of other high-flying youngsters from all over the globe, including Lorde, the Obama sisters and history-making Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.
The 19-year-old actor-turned-singer earns his spot on the list off the back of the world-beating performance of recent EP TRXYE, which dominated iTunes charts in more than 50 countries around the planet upon its release back in October. The X-Men Origins: Wolverine star is a ubiquitous force on social media, engaging with his sizeable fanbase everywhere from Tumblr to YouTube, where he boasts a casual 2.8 million or so followers.
Sivan was also named as one of the top 50 finalists in the running for the title of Channel [V] Oz Artist of the Year, which is currently in knock-out mode, with the Happy Little Pill scribe having so far outlasted early casualties including DMA's, Flume, Cloud Control, and Jagwar Ma — so the kids obviously have a fair bit of love for the guy.
Check out the clip for that single below — which itself has an eye-popping view rate of about 6.8 million to date, in just a few months — and get on board with with Time is talking about.
