Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift born December 13 1989 is an American singersongwriter An influential figure in popular culture she is known for her autobiographical songwriting and artistic reinventions Swift is the highestgrossing live music artist the wealthiest female musician and one of the bestselling music artists of all time Swift signed with Big Machine Records in 2005 and debuted as a country singer with the albums Taylor Swift 2006 and Fearless 2008 The singles Teardrops on My Guitar Love Story and You Belong with Me found crossover success on country and pop radio formats Speak Now 2010 expanded her country pop sound with rock influences while Red 2012 explored electronic influences Swift recalibrated her artistic identity from country to pop with the synthpop album 1989 2014 while ensuing media scrutiny inspired hiphopimbued Reputation 2017 Through the 2010s she accumulated the US Billboard Hot 100 numberone singles We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together Shake It Off Blank Space Bad Blood and Look What You Made Me Do Shifting to Republic Records in 2018 Swift released the eclectic pop album Lover 2019 and rerecorded four of her first six albums due to a dispute with Big Machine She explored indie folk on the 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore synthpop on Midnights 2022 and The Tortured Poets Department 2024 and soft rock on The Life of a Showgirl 2025 The singles Cardigan Willow All Too Well Taylors Version AntiHero Cruel Summer Is It Over Now Fortnight The Fate of Ophelia and Opalite topped the Hot 100 Her Eras Tour 20232024 and its associated film Taylor Swift The Eras Tour 2023 are the highestgrossing concert tour and concert film of all time Swift is the only artist to have been named the IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year six times A record eight of her albums have each sold over a million copies firstweek in the US Publications such as Rolling Stone and Billboard have ranked Swift among the greatest artists of all time She is the first individual from the arts to be named Time Person of the Year 2023 and the youngest female inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame 2026 Her accolades include 14 Grammy Awardsincluding a record four Album of the Year winsand a Primetime Emmy Award Swift is the mostawarded artist of the American Music Awards the Billboard Music Awards and the MTV Video Music Awards Description above from the Wikipedia article Taylor Swift licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia