Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. An influential figure in popular culture, she is known for her autobiographical songwriting and artistic reinventions. Swift is the highest-grossing live music artist, the wealthiest female musician, and one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

Swift signed with Big Machine Records in 2005 and debuted as a country singer with the albums ''Taylor Swift'' (2006) and ''Fearless'' (2008). The singles "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Love Story", and "You Belong with Me" found crossover success on country and pop radio formats. ''Speak Now'' (2010) expanded her country pop sound with rock influences, and ''Red'' (2012) featured a pop-friendly production. Swift recalibrated her artistic identity from country to pop with the synth-pop album ''1989'' (2014); ensuing media scrutiny inspired the hip-hop–imbued ''Reputation'' (2017). Through the 2010s, she accumulated the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 number-one singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", "Bad Blood", and "Look What You Made Me Do".

Shifting to Republic Records in 2018, Swift released the eclectic pop album ''Lover'' (2019) and re-recorded four of the first six albums due to a dispute with Big Machine. She ventured into indie folk with the 2020 albums ''Folklore'' and ''Evermore'', returned to synth-pop on ''Midnights'' (2022) and ''The Tortured Poets Department'' (2024), and incorporated soft rock into ''The Life of a Showgirl'' (2025). The songs "Cardigan", "Willow", "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)", "Anti-Hero", "Cruel Summer", "Is It Over Now?", "Fortnight", and "The Fate of Ophelia" topped the Hot 100. Her Eras Tour (2023–2024) is the first concert tour to gross $1billion, and its associated film, ''Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour'' (2023), became the highest-grossing concert film in history.

Swift is the only artist to have been named the IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year five times. A record eight of her albums have each sold over a million copies first-week in the US. Publications such as ''Rolling Stone'' and ''Billboard'' have ranked Swift among the greatest artists of all time. She is the first individual from the arts to be named ''Time'' Person of the Year (2023). Her accolades include 14 Grammy Awards—including a record four Album of the Year wins—and a Primetime Emmy Award. Swift is the most-awarded artist of the American Music Awards, the ''Billboard'' Music Awards, and the MTV Video Music Awards. A subject of extensive media coverage, she has a global fanbase known as Swifties. Provided by Wikipedia