Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift born December 13 1989 is an American singersongwriter Recognized for her songwriting musical versatility artistic reinventions and influence on the music industry she is a prominent cultural figure of the 21st century Swift began songwriting professionally at age 14 and signed with Big Machine Records in 2005 to become a country musician Under Big Machine she released six studio albums four of them to country radio starting with her selftitled album 2006 Her next record Fearless 2008 explored country pop and its singles Love Story and You Belong with Me catapulted her to mainstream fame Speak Now 2010 incorporated rock influences and Red 2012 experimented with electronic elements and featured Swifts first Billboard Hot 100 numberone song We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together She abandoned her country image with 1989 2014 a synthpop album supported by charttopping songs Shake It Off Blank Space and Bad Blood Media scrutiny inspired her next album the hiphopflavored Reputation 2017 and its numberone single Look What You Made Me Do After signing a new contract with Republic Records in 2018 Swift released her seventh album Lover 2019 and autobiographical documentary Miss Americana 2020 She embraced indie folk and alternative rock on her 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore and explored chillout styles on Midnights 2022 The albums broke multifarious records led by the respective numberone singles Cardigan Willow and AntiHero After a dispute with Big Machine led Swift to rerecord her back catalog she released two rerecorded albums Fearless Taylors Version and Red Taylors Version in 2021 the latters All Too Well 10 Minute Version became the longest song to top the Hot 100 Swift has directed music videos and films such as All Too Well The Short Film 2021 and played supporting roles in others Having sold over 200 million records Swift is one of the bestselling musicians the most streamed woman on Spotify and the only act to have five albums open with over one million copies sold in the US She has been featured in critical lists such as Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time Billboards Greatest of All Time Artists the Time 100 and Forbes Celebrity 100 Among her accolades are 12 Grammy Awards including three Album of the Year wins a Primetime Emmy Award 40 American Music Awards 29 Billboard Music Awards 12 Country Music Association Awards three IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year awards and 98 Guinness World Records