Time has announced its most influential person in 2015.. and not everyone agrees.

There is the Pope, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Malala Yousafzai and this rapper, called Kanye.

TIME has released its annual list of the 100 most influential people of 2015.

This year’ s five covers feature ballet dancer Misty Copeland, Journalist Jorge Ramos, actor Bradley Cooper, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and, the one that has a few people scratching their heads, Kanye West.

And not just one of the covers, THE COVER. Kanye tops the list as the most influential person of 2015.

Entrepreneur Elon Musk writes about Kanye West’s “long game”, speaking of the depth of his influence as West moves into the worlds of fashion, design and philanthropy.

He says, “In his debut album, over a decade ago, Kanye issued what amounted to a social critique and a call to arms (with a beat):  “We rappers is role models: we rap, we don’t think.” But Kanye does think. Constantly. About everything. And he wants everybody else to do the same: to engage, question, push boundaries. Now that he’s a pop-culture juggernaut, he has the platform to achieve just that. He’s not afraid of being judged or ridiculed in the process. “

His inclusion, and number one ranking has divided the world of social media.

With many questioning his ‘right’ to be there alongside world leaders and decision makers.

TIME editor, Nancy Gibbs defended the controversial decision saying the entire list is comprised of an “anthem to interaction, the convergence that occurs when a good idea goes viral” of which the Kardashians and Kanye are a part of.  “So when we were debating whom to approach to write for this issue, we looked for people who could speak to their subject’s influence in all its dimensions.”

“Every year we hope the TIME 100 will introduce you to influential people you might not have met before and encourage you to find out more about them.”

Twitter users were hasty to point out that, in fact, they knew quite a lot about Kim and Kanye already. ( Thank you very much)

Others on the five covers include:

Ballet dancer Misty Copeland, who has just become the first black dancer to play the role of Odette in a top company’s production of Swan Lake.

She is written about by Nadia Comaneci who says “her story—of overcoming personal and physical challenges to become a soloist at the American Ballet Theatre—is the story of someone who followed her dreams and refused to give up. In that way, she is a model for all young girls.”

There is also: Jorge Ramos, 57, a Latin American journalist who is often called the “Walter Cronkite of Latino America.”

He is considered by many to be one of the most influential journalists heading into the 2016 US presidential election.

Bradley Cooper, is written about by Oliver Platt who says “Bradley’s that good. And I think we’ve seen only a hint of what’s to come.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg,  an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is also one of TIME’s five covers.

TIME says she “has had two distinguished legal careers, either one of which would alone entitle her to be one of TIME’s 100. When she was a law professor at Rutgers and later Columbia, she became the leading (and very successful) litigator on behalf of women’s rights.”

This year women make up nearly half the TIME 100 list. (Nearly maybe next year it might finally, actually BE half..)

With outstanding women including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

TIME writes that “the German Chancellor Angela Merkel isn’t just the most powerful women in the world—she’s one of the most powerful people period.

“Angela Merkel,” writes Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, “managed to leverage German economic power into diplomatic power.”

There is also Dr. Joanne Liu, the Canadian-born head of Doctors Without Borders, Chai Jing, the Chinese journalist whose environmental documentary ‘Under the Dome’ was watched by more than 200 million people in China and Obiageli Ezekwesili a leading voice in Nigerian politics who became the champion of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

Related content: Malala Yousafzai writes a letter to the 200 abducted schoolgirls who are still missing today.

Other women who made the cut were (big cheers here) Emma Watson, who is written about by former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson and Julianna Margulies (who we know from ‘The Good Wife’ but who has been fighting to get a childhood sexual abuse law called Erin’s Law passed in the US.)

Malala Yousafzai is for the third year in a row is the youngest person on the list. Malala is written about by Mezon Almellehan, a Syrian refugee in Jordan who was inspired by Malala to urge girls in her refugee camp to focus on going to school”.

Taylor Swift is there. TIME says she is a “megawatt talent, an extraordinary spirit, an impossibly charming blend of impishness, poise and radiance to spare.

And Kim Kardashian who, in the most charming of all the pairings is written about by Martha Stewart and called the first lady of #fame.

Well if Kim is Marcia,  is Kanye today’s George Glass?

You can read more about TIME’s most influential list here.

 What do you think of TIME’s top 100?