American country and pop music artist, songwriter. Her narrative-style songs have been extremely successful and well-received by critics.
At the age of 14, she became the youngest singer to be signed to Sony/ATV Music publishing house. At 15, she signed her first record deal. Her 2006 self-titled debut album was a major success, becoming the longest-charting album of the first decade in the United States. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. With singles such as "Love Story" and "You Belong With Me", the album became the best-selling album in the US in 2009 and was certified diamond. The album won 4 Grammy Awards, making Taylor Swift the youngest singer ever to win Album of the Year.
Swift was the sole songwriter on her third album Speak Now (2010), which won two Grammy Awards and was her first album to debut with 1 million sales in the United States. Taylor Swift released her fourth album, Red (2012), with the accompanying single "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. With her fifth album and first pop album, 1989 (2014), she won three Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Album of the Year category. She became the first woman to replace herself on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with her singles "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space". Swift's sixth album, Reputation (2017), made her the only singer in the world with four consecutive albums to sell 1 million copies in the United States in one week, with the single "Look What You Made Me Do" reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 ” on the list of most popular posts. Her seventh album, Lover, made her the second woman in history to have six consecutive albums reach number one on the Billboard 200.
in 2020 Taylor unexpectedly released her eighth and ninth studio albums: Folklore and Evermore. With these albums and their new singles "cardigan" and "willow", Taylor Swift became the only person to debut a single (Billboard Hot 100) and an album (Billboard 200) at number one at the same time.
With nearly 200 million record sales, Taylor Swift is one of the best-selling music artists in history. She has earned 46 nominations and won 12 Grammy Awards, 1 Emmy Award, 2 Brit Awards, and seven Guinness World Records. She is the most awarded singer at the American Music Awards (40 awards) and the most awarded female singer at the Billboard Music Awards (29 awards). Taylor Swift is the only and first woman in history to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year 3 times. As a songwriter, Taylor Swift has been honored with the Nashville Songwriters Association's Songwriters Walk of Fame and was named one of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of 2015. She was also mentioned in Time's list as one of the most powerful people in the world (2010, 2015, 2019) and was named the world's most powerful star in the Forbes 100 Stars (2016 and 2019). Taylor Swift is the youngest woman ever to be named on Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women in the World (2015). In 2019, Billboard ranked her eighth on the Greatest Singers of All Time, the highest ranking for an artist who debuted in the 21st century. She was also named Billboard's Woman of the Decade in 2019, and the American Music Awards honored her as Female Singer of the Decade. Two of her albums made Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. She is considered a pop icon due to her philanthropic contributions to the fight for the rights of women and music artists, and her influence in the music industry.
