The Ultimate Guide to Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift puts the pop in pop culture: The 33-year-old hitmaker boasts a discography spanning multiple genres—from country to folk—that has sold an estimated 200 million records. As she continuously reinvents herself, she’s also changing the industry for others: When the singer lost the rights to her first six albums, she decided to rerecord them all and reclaim her own art. After releasing Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version) in 2021, signs point to the next rerecording as either 1989 or Speak Now. Somehow, she also found time to complete her 10th original studio album, Midnights, which was released Oct. 21, 2022. She’s also added filmmaker to her long list of accomplishments: All Too Well, the short film she wrote and directed based on her 2011 song, screened at…

In an industry of cookie-cutter pop stars, Taylor Swift has broken the mold and continuously reinvented the concept of an entertainer. Over her two decades as a singer-songwriter, she’s spanned genres, smashed records and perpetually kept her loyal legion of Swifties on edge in anticipation of her next (and possibly, surprise) album. Taylor writes her own songs, plays her own instruments, makes her own rules and speaks her own mind. Yet at 33, she’s still learning as she goes. Taylor received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from New York University in May 2022 and gave the commencement speech, in which she imparted “life hacks” she’d picked up during her unconventional coming of age as a teenager in the public eye. “I became a young adult while being fed the…

Will Taylor’s next award be an Oscar? The singer has inked a deal with Searchlight Pictures to direct a feature film—for which she also wrote the screenplay. No word yet on the plot (or if it will be a musical), but the studio has complete faith in her ability behind the camera. “Taylor is a once in a generation artist and storyteller,” Searchlight presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield said in a statement. “It is a genuine joy and privilege to collaborate with her as she embarks on this exciting and new creative journey.” Taylor, who had minor roles in films such as Cats and Amsterdam, has already cut her teeth as a director, helming the productions of several of her music videos and a short film for the Red…

$450 million NET WORTH • 11 Grammys* • 40 American Music Awards • 29 Billboard Music Awards • 12 Country Music Association Awards • 536 award wins* (out of 1,092 nominations) *as of press time 6 WORLD TOURS (Including 2023’s The Eras Tour) 92 GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS • Most Weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Artist 100 Chart (51) • Fastest-Selling Digital Album in the U.S. by a Female Artist (Speak Now) • Most Viewed Vevo Video in 24 Hours (“Me!” with 65.2 million) • Most No. 1s on the U.S. Digital Song Sales Chart (24) • First act to debut at positions 1-10 simultaneously on the U.S. Hot 100 10 STUDIO ALBUMS • 55 singles • 200 million records sold • 78 billion streams • 59 music video appearances • 28…

“THIS IS MY WORST-CASE SCENARIO. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU SIGN A DEAL AT 15 TO SOMEONE FOR WHOM THE TERM ‘LOYALTY’ IS CLEARLY JUST A CONTRACTUAL CONCEPT.”Taylor Swift, on Tumblr It took Taylor Swift 11 years to release her first six albums, but it looks like it will only take her a fraction of that time to rerecord them all. Motivated by Scott Borchetta’s attempts to block her use of the songs in a medley performance at the 2019 American Music Awards (when she was named Artist of the Decade), she returned to the studio, and between making folklore and evermore in 2020, she completed her first “Taylor’s Version,” Fearless, her second album and the one that launched her to stardom in 2008. The blast from the past…

TAYLOR SWIFT Any stereotypes about country music were given the boot when a teenage girl from Pennsylvania arrived on the Nashville, Tennessee, scene. Instead of songs about beer and trucks, Taylor Swift wrote confessional lyrics that dealt with age-appropriate issues such as boys, friendships and insecurities. Of the 11 tracks on Taylor Swift, she had her hand in all, even penning three on her own, including the Billboard Hot Country No. 1 singles “Our Song” and “Should’ve Said No.” The debut collection not only went seven-times platinum, it was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2008 Academy of Country Music Awards, plus Taylor earned a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist (she lost to Adele). Ahead of going into the studio with Nathan Chapman, who produced her demo,…