Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Recognized for her genre-spanning discography, songwriting, and artistic reinventions, Swift is a prominent cultural figure who has been cited as an influence on a generation of music artists.
Swift began songwriting professionally at age 14 and signed with Big Machine Records in 2005 to become a country musician. Under Big Machine, she released six studio albums, four of which to country radio, starting with her self-titled album (2006). Her next record, Fearless (2008), explored country pop, and its singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me" catapulted her to mainstream fame. Speak Now (2010) incorporated rock influences, and Red (2012) experimented with electronic elements and featured Swift's first Billboard Hot 100 number-one song, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together". She abandoned her country image with 1989 (2014), a synth-pop album supported by chart-topping songs "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood". Media scrutiny inspired her next album, the hip-hop-flavored Reputation (2017), and its number-one single "Look What You Made Me Do".
Swift signed a new contract with Republic Records in 2018, releasing her seventh album Lover (2019) and autobiographical documentary Miss Americana (2020), influenced by political disillusionment. She embraced indie folk and alternative rock on her 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore and incorporated chill-out styles on Midnights (2022). The albums broke multifarious records, led by the respective number-one singles "Cardigan", "Willow", and "Anti-Hero". After a dispute with Big Machine led to Swift re-recording her back catalog, she released two re-recorded albums, Fearless (Taylor's Version) and Red (Taylor's Version), in 2021; the latter's "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" became the longest song to top the Hot 100. Swift has directed music videos and films such as All Too Well: The Short Film (2021) and played supporting roles in others.
Having sold over 200 million records, Swift is one of the best-selling musicians, the most streamed woman on Spotify, and the only act to have five albums open with over one million copies sold in the US. She has been featured in critical listicles such as Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time, Billboard's Greatest of All Time Artists, the Time 100, and Forbes Celebrity 100. Among her accolades are 12 Grammy Awards, including three Album of the Year wins; a Primetime Emmy Award; 40 American Music Awards; 29 Billboard Music Awards; 12 Country Music Association Awards; three IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year awards; and 98 Guinness World Records. Honored with titles such as Artist of the Decade and Woman of the Decade, Swift is an advocate for artists' rights and women's empowerment.
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Swift has won 12 Grammy Awards (including three for Album of the Year—tying for the most by an artist),[394] an Emmy Award,[395] 40 American Music Awards (the most won by an artist),[396] 29 Billboard Music Awards (the most won by a woman),[397] 98 Guinness World Records,[398] 14 MTV Video Music Awards (including three Video of the Year wins—the most by an act),[243] 12 Country Music Association Awards (including the Pinnacle Award),[399] eight Academy of Country Music Awards,[400] and two Brit Awards.[170] As a songwriter, she has been honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association,[62][401] the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the National Music Publishers' Association and was the youngest person on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time in 2015.[402][403] At the 64th BMI Awards in 2016, Swift was the first woman to be honored with an award named after its recipient.[404]
From available data, Swift has amassed over 50 million album sales, 150 million single sales,[405][406][407] and 114 million units globally, including 78 billion streams.[408][409] The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) ranked her as the Global Recording Artist of the Year for a record three times (2014, 2019 and 2022).[410] Swift has the most number-one albums in the United Kingdom and Ireland for a female artist this millennium,[411][412] and earned the highest income for an artist on Chinese digital music platforms—RMB 159,000,000.[413]
Swift is the most streamed female act on Spotify,[414] and the only artist to have received more than 200 million streams in one day (228 million streams on October 21, 2022).[415] The most entries and the most simultaneous entries for an artist on the Billboard Global 200, with 94 and 31 songs, respectively, are among her feats.[416][417] Her Reputation Stadium Tour (2018) is the highest-grossing North American tour ever,[418] and she was the world's highest-grossing female touring act of the 2010s.[419] Beginning with Fearless, all of her studio albums opened with over a million global units.[420]
In the US, Swift has sold over 37.3 million albums as of 2019,[407] when Billboard placed her eighth on its Greatest of All Time Artists Chart.[421] Nine of her songs have topped the Billboard Hot 100. She is the longest-reigning act of Billboard Artist 100 (68 weeks),[422] the soloist with the most cumulative weeks (56) atop the Billboard 200,[414] the woman with the most Hot 100 entries (189),[423] top-ten songs (40),[424] and weeks atop the Top Country Albums (98),[425] and the act with the most Digital Songs number-ones (23).[426][427] Swift is the second highest-certified female digital singles artist (and third overall) in the U.S., with 134 million total units certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),[428] and the first woman to have both an album (Fearless) and a song ("Shake It Off") certified Diamond.[429]
Swift has appeared in various power listings. Time included her on its annual list of the 100 most influential people in 2010, 2015, and 2019.[430] She was one of the "Silence Breakers" honored as Time Person of the Year in 2017 for speaking up about sexual assault.[431] In 2014, she was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in the music category[432] and again in 2017 in its "All-Star Alumni" category.[433] Swift became the youngest woman to be included on Forbes' list of the 100 most powerful women in 2015, ranked at number 64.[434] Swift received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from New York University and served as its commencement speaker on May 18, 2022.[266]
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