TAYLOR SWIFT

Devanshi Jajware
February 07, 2024

The famous pop singer of Hollywood, Taylor Swift, is an exceptional American singer-songwriter. Her real name is Taylor Alison Swift and was born on December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania. 

In the music industry, she vastly influences popular culture and so her life is a widespread subject of media coverage. Swift opines on her success with a statement which says, "I'm intimidated by the fear of being average."

When Swift was ten years old, she penned a poem “Monster In My Closet” which won her a national poetry contest. At the age of 14, Swift began writing songs professionally and by the age of 16, she scored her first Top 40 hit with "Tim McGraw," a song featured on her 2006 eponymous debut album.

Swift’s Fame

With 200 million records sold, Taylor Swift is one of the world’s best-selling musicians and has been honored ‘three times’ by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry as the Global Recording Artist of the Year.

She is the only artist with six albums debuting with over a million copies sold, and the first billionaire with music as the main source of income. Along with being the highest-grossing female touring act, she is the most-streamed woman on Spotify and Apple Music.

Big Machine Records

In order to become a country singer, she signed with Big Machine Records in 2005 starting with Taylor Swift (2006). Next, her 2008 studio album, Fearless was her first No. 1 album that spawned the Top 5 crossover hit “Love Story” and “You Belong with Me” which catapulted her to mainstream fame. 

Swift explored country pop with its singles such as Speak Now (2010) infused with rock influences while Red (2012) experimented with electronic elements “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” was Swift’s first Billboard Hot 100 number-one song. 

With 1989 (2014), Swift departed from her country image which is a synth-pop album supported by the chart-topping songs "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood". Her sixth studio album,  Reputation (2017) was a hip-hop influence inspired by media scrutiny and its number-one single "Look What You Made Me Do".

Republic Records

Taylor Swift signed to Republic Records in 2018. The next year, she released the eclectic pop album Lover (2019) and the autobiographical documentary Miss Americana (2020). In the 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore, she explored indie-folk styles, subdued electropop on Midnights (2022). 

After a dispute with Big Machine Records, she re-recorded four albums subtitled Taylor’s Version. "Cruel Summer", "Cardigan", "Willow", "Anti-Hero", "All Too Well", and "Is It Over Now?" are the number one songs of these hit albums. 

Respectively, her Eras Tour (2023–2024) and its accompanying concert film became the highest-grossing tour and concert film of all time. She even directed films and music videos for instance  All Too Well: The Short Film (2021).

Discography

Studio albums                                                       
Re-recorded albums

Filmography

Documentary and concert films

Tours 

Awards & Accolades

Swift has appeared in the 2023 Time Person of the Year, on lists such as “Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time”, “Billboard's Greatest of All Time Artists”, and “Forbes' World's 100 Most Powerful Women”. Her accolades include 14 Grammy Awards (featuring a record four Album of the Year wins), a Primetime Emmy Award, 40 American Music Awards, 40 Billboard Music Awards, and 23 MTV Video Music Awards. Swift is also a philanthropist along with being an advocate for artists' rights and women's empowerment.

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