Taylor Alison Swift is an influential American singer-songwriter with a significant impact on the music industry, popular culture, and politics. She is known for her songwriting prowess, artistic innovation, entrepreneurial ventures, and advocacy.
Swift's professional songwriting career began at the age of 14. In 2005, she signed with Big Machine Records and gained prominence as a country pop artist with her debut albums, *Taylor Swift* (2006) and *Fearless* (2008). Hit singles like "Teardrops on My Guitar," "Love Story," and "You Belong with Me" brought her widespread fame, appealing to both country and pop audiences. She experimented with rock on *Speak Now* (2010) and incorporated electronic elements on *Red* (2012), which included her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." Swift transitioned from country to pop with her synth-pop album *1989* (2014), featuring chart-toppers such as "Shake It Off," "Blank Space," and "Bad Blood." Media scrutiny influenced the hip-hop-infused *Reputation* (2017), which included the number-one single "Look What You Made Me Do."
In 2018, after signing with Republic Records, Swift released the eclectic pop album *Lover* (2019) and starred in the autobiographical documentary *Miss Americana* (2020). She delved into indie folk with the albums *Folklore* and *Evermore* (2020), explored subdued pop on *Midnights* (2022) and *The Tortured Poets Department* (2024), and re-recorded four of her previous albums as *Taylor's Version* following a dispute with Big Machine. These projects produced number-one hits like "Cruel Summer," "Cardigan," "Willow," "Anti-Hero," "Fortnight," "All Too Well," and "Is It Over Now?". Her *Eras Tour* (2023–2024) and the accompanying concert film set records as the highest-grossing tour and concert film ever. Swift has also directed videos and films, including *Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions* (2020) and *All Too Well: The Short Film* (2021), and has acted in several films.
Swift is one of the best-selling music artists globally, with 200 million records sold as of 2019. She is Spotify's most-streamed artist, the highest-grossing female touring act, and the first musician to become a billionaire with music as the primary source of income. Seven of her albums have debuted with over one million sales in their first week. Named Time's 2023 Person of the Year, Swift has been featured on prestigious 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 numerous accolades include 14 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, 40 American Music Awards, 39 Billboard Music Awards, and 23 MTV Video Music Awards. She has uniquely won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year, and the IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year four times each.
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