Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. One of the world's leading contemporary recording artists, she is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage.
Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music. She signed with the label Big Machine Records and became the youngest artist ever signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. Her 2006 self-titled debut album peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 and spent the most weeks on the chart in the 2000s. The album's third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the success of pop crossover singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless became the best-selling album of 2009 in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Swift was the sole writer of her 2010 album, Speak Now. It debuted at number one in the United States and the single "Mean" won two Grammy Awards. Her fourth album, Red (2012), yielded the successful singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "I Knew You Were Trouble". For her fifth album, the pop-focused 1989 (2014), she received three Grammys, and became the first woman and fifth act overall to win Album of the Year twice. Its singles "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood" reached number one in the US, Australia, and Canada. The 2015 concert tour for 1989 became one of the highest-grossing of the decade. Swift's sixth album, Reputation (2017) and its lead single "Look What You Made Me Do" topped the UK and US charts; with the former, she became the first act to have four albums sell one million copies within one week in the US.
As a songwriter, Swift has received awards from the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and was included in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time in 2015. She is also the recipient of 10 Grammys, six Guinness World Records, one Emmy Award, 23 Billboard Music Awards, and 12 Country Music Association Awards. Swift is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albums"including 27.8 million in the US"and 130 million single downloads. She has appeared in Time's 100 most influential people in the world (2010 and 2015), Forbes' top-earning women in music (2011–2015), Forbes' 100 most powerful women (2015), and Forbes Celebrity 100 (2016). Her inclusion in the third of these made her the youngest woman on the list, and she ranked first in Celebrity 100.
Reputation (stylized as reputation) is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on November 10, 2017, through Big Machine Records. The record was primarily produced by Jack Antonoff, Max Martin, Shellback and Swift herself, who also serves as the executive producer. Featured artists included on the album are English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and American rapper Future.
Genre: Pop, electropop, synth-pop
Release date: Nov 10, 2017
1989 is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on October 27, 2014, through Big Machine Records. Swift began preparing for the album during the same year that Red was released, and during a significant amount of media scrutiny. Over the course of the two-year songwriting period, she primarily collaborated with producers Max Martin and Shellback—Martin served as the album's executive producer alongside Swift. The album's title was inspired by the pop music scene of the 1980s, particularly Swift's birth year.
Genre: Pop, dance-pop, synthpop
Release date: Oct 27, 2014
1 | You Are In Love | 4:42 | Lyrics | |
2 | Wonderland | 4:04 | Lyrics | |
3 | New Romantics | 3:48 | Lyrics | |
4 | Clean | 4:38 | Lyrics | |
5 | I Know Places | 3:35 | Lyrics | |
6 | This Love | 2:01 | Lyrics | |
7 | Style | 4:03 | Lyrics | |
8 | How You Get The Girl | 3:50 | Lyrics | |
9 | Wildest Dreams | 3:55 | Lyrics | |
10 | Bad Blood | 4:05 | Lyrics | |
11 | I Wish You Would | 3:37 | Lyrics | |
12 | Shake It Off | 4:02 | Lyrics | |
13 | All You Had To Do Was Stay | 3:30 | Lyrics | |
14 | Out Of The Woods | 5:34 | Lyrics | |
15 | Blank Space | 4:33 | Lyrics | |
16 | Welcome To New York | 2:39 | Lyrics |
Red is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on October 22, 2012, by Big Machine Records, as the follow-up to her third studio album, Speak Now. The album title was inspired by the "semi-toxic relationships" that Swift experienced during the process of conceiving this album, which Swift described the emotions she felt as "red emotions" due to their intense and tumultuous nature. Red touches on Swift's signature themes of love and heartbreak, however, from a more mature perspective while exploring other themes such as fame and the pressure of being in the limelight. The album features collaborations with producers and guest artists such as Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol and Ed Sheeran and is noted for Swift's experimentation with new musical genres. Swift completed The Red Tour in support of the album on June 12, 2014, which became the highest-grossing tour of all time by a country artist, grossing over $150 million.
Genre: Pop
Release date: Oct 22, 2012
1 | Girl At Home | 3:46 | Lyrics | |
2 | Come Back... Be Here | 3:41 | Lyrics | |
3 | The Moment I Knew | 4:41 | Lyrics | |
4 | Begin Again | 4:11 | Lyrics | |
5 | Starlight | 3:41 | Lyrics | |
6 | Everything Has Changed | 4:13 | Lyrics | |
7 | The Lucky One | 3:59 | Lyrics | |
8 | Sad Beautiful Tragic | 4:49 | Lyrics | |
9 | Holy Ground | 3:25 | Lyrics | |
10 | The Last Time | 3:48 | Lyrics | |
11 | Stay Stay Stay | 3:26 | Lyrics | |
12 | We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | 3:36 | Lyrics | |
13 | I Almost Do | 4:00 | Lyrics | |
14 | 22 | 4:04 | Lyrics | |
15 | All Too Well | 5:31 | Lyrics | |
16 | I Knew You Were Trouble | 5:58 | Lyrics | |
17 | Treacherous | 4:04 | Lyrics | |
18 | Red | 4:02 | Lyrics | |
19 | State Of Grace | 5:05 | Lyrics |
Speak Now is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on October 25, 2010, by Big Machine Records. Production for the album took place during 2009 to 2010 at several recording studios, and was handled by Swift and Nathan Chapman. Written entirely by Swift as the follow-up to Fearless (2008), Speak Now expands on the country pop style of her previous work, and features lyrical themes including love, romance and heartbreak.
Genre: Country pop
Release date: Oct 25, 2010
1 | Superman | 4:35 | Lyrics | |
2 | If This Was A Movie | 4:06 | Lyrics | |
3 | Ours | 4:04 | Lyrics | |
4 | Long Live | 5:20 | Lyrics | |
5 | Last Kiss | 6:11 | Lyrics | |
6 | Haunted | 4:01 | Lyrics | |
7 | Innocent | 5:01 | Lyrics | |
8 | Better Than Revenge | 3:38 | Lyrics | |
9 | Enchanted | 5:58 | Lyrics | |
10 | Never Grow Up | 4:53 | Lyrics | |
11 | The Story Of Us | 4:27 | Lyrics | |
12 | Mean | 4:04 | Lyrics | |
13 | Dear John | 6:48 | Lyrics | |
14 | Speak Now | 4:01 | Lyrics | |
15 | Back To December | 5:05 | Lyrics | |
16 | Sparks Fly | 4:31 | Lyrics | |
17 | Mine | 3:56 | Lyrics |
Fearless is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The album was released on November 11, 2008, by Big Machine Records. As with her debut, Swift wrote or co-wrote all thirteen tracks on Fearless. Most of the songs were written as the singer promoted her debut album as opening act for numerous country artists. Due to the unavailability of collaborators on the road, eight songs were self-penned by Swift. Other songs were co-written with Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Colbie Caillat, and John Rich. Swift also made her debut as a record producer, co-producing all songs on the album with Nathan Chapman.
Genre: Country, country pop
Release date: Nov 11, 2008
1 | Love Story | 3:57 | Lyrics | |
2 | Change | 4:33 | Lyrics | |
3 | The Best Day | 4:36 | Lyrics | |
4 | Forever & Always | 3:46 | Lyrics | |
5 | The Way I Loved You | 4:10 | Lyrics | |
6 | You're Not Sorry | 4:07 | Lyrics | |
7 | Fifteen | 5:04 | Lyrics | |
8 | Tell Me Why | 3:26 | Lyrics | |
9 | Breathe | 4:19 | Lyrics | |
10 | You Belong With Me | 3:49 | Lyrics | |
11 | White Horse | 4:05 | Lyrics | |
12 | Hey Stephen | 4:13 | Lyrics | |
13 | Fearless | 4:11 | Lyrics | |
14 | The Other Side Of The Door | 3:59 | Lyrics | |
15 | Superstar | 4:36 | Lyrics | |
16 | Come In With The Rain | 3:59 | Lyrics | |
17 | Forever & Always (Piano Version) | 4:26 | Lyrics | |
18 | Untouchable | 5:11 | Lyrics | |
19 | Jump Then Fall | 3:59 | Lyrics |
The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection - EP, or simply The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, is the first extended play (EP) released by American country recording artist Taylor Swift. The EP was first released on October 14, 2007 by Big Machine Records exclusively to Target stores in the United States and online. The release was originally a limited release for the 2007 holiday season, but was re-released to iTunes and Amazon.com on December 2, 2008 and again in October 2009 to Target stores. The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection features cover versions of Christmas songs and two original tracks written by Swift, "Christmases When You Were Mine" and "Christmas Must Be Something More", all of which have a country pop sound.
Genre: Christmas, country pop
Release date: Oct 14, 2007
Taylor Swift is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on October 24, 2006, by Big Machine Records when Swift was 16 years old. Swift wrote songs for the album during her freshman year of high school, and has writing credits on all of the albums' songs including those co-written with Liz Rose. Swift experimented with several album producers, ultimately choosing the producer of her demo album, Nathan Chapman. Musically, the album is country music styled and lyrically, it speaks of romantic relationships, a couple of which Swift wrote from observing relationships before being in one and also touches on Swift's personal struggles in high school.
Genre: Country
Release date: Oct 24, 2006
1 | A Perfectly Good Heart | 3:43 | Lyrics | |
2 | Invisible | 3:28 | Lyrics | |
3 | I'm Only Me When I'm With You | 3:39 | Lyrics | |
4 | Our Song | 3:23 | Lyrics | |
5 | Mary's Song (Oh My My My) | 3:37 | Lyrics | |
6 | Should've Said No | 4:34 | Lyrics | |
7 | Stay Beautiful | 3:59 | Lyrics | |
8 | Tied Together With A Smile | 4:12 | Lyrics | |
9 | The Outside | 3:24 | Lyrics | |
10 | Cold As You | 4:00 | Lyrics | |
11 | A Place In This World | 3:42 | Lyrics | |
12 | Teardrops On My Guitar | 3:38 | Lyrics | |
13 | Picture To Burn | 3:32 | Lyrics | |
14 | Tim McGraw | 3:52 | Lyrics |