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This article is about the singer-songwriter. For her self-titled album, see Taylor Swift (album).

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for
narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage and critical
praise. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and,
at age 15, she signed her first record deal. Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting
album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-
handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's
second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love
Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009, won four Grammy
Awards—including the Album of the Year—and was certified Diamond by the RIAA.

Taylor Swift

Medium shot of Swift in dress with little sequins, in front of AMA backdrop

Swift at the 2019 American Music Awards

Born

Taylor Alison Swift

December 13, 1989 (age 30)

West Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Other names

Nils Sjöberg[1][2]

Occupation

Singer-songwriter record producer actress music video director philanthropist businesswoman

Years active

2006–present

Net worth

$360 million (2019 estimate)

Relatives

Austin Swift (brother)

Awards

Full list

Musical career

Origin

Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.

Genres

Pop country rock synth-pop country pop

Instruments

Vocals guitar piano banjo ukulele

Labels

Big Machine Republic

Associated acts

Ed Sheeran

Website

taylorswift.com

Swift's 2010 album Speak Now, solely written by her, and fourth album, Red (2012) both sold over a
million copies in its first week in the US, and the latter yielded her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one
single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together". Her fifth album and first all-pop project, 1989
(2014), won three Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year, and produced the number-one
singles "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space", which made Swift the first woman to replace herself at the top
spot on the Hot 100. Her sixth album, Reputation (2017), made her the only act to have four consecutive
albums each sell one million copies in their first week in the US and yielded her fifth number-one song
on the Hot 100, "Look What You Made Me Do". With her seventh album, Lover (2019), Swift became the
first woman in U.S. history to have six albums sell over 500,000 copies in their opening weeks.

Having sold more than 50 million albums and 150 million singles globally, Swift is one of the world's
best-selling music artists of all time, the highest-earning female musician of the 2010s and among the
most successful touring acts. Her accolades include 10 Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and six
Guinness world records, and she is the most-awarded act and woman at the American Music Awards (29
wins) and Billboard Music Awards (23 wins), respectively. She has been included in multiple power
rankings, such as Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world (2010, 2015 and
2019), Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time (2015), the Forbes Celebrity 100 (placing first
in 2016 and 2019), and Billboard's Greatest of All Time Artists Chart (2019). She was also named Global
Recording Artist of the Year twice by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (2014
and 2019), Woman of the Decade (2019) by Billboard and the Artist of the Decade (2019) by the
American Music Awards.

Life and career

Artistry

Public image

Impact

Awards and achievements

Other ventures

Discography

Filmography

Tours

See also

Footnotes

References

External links

Last edited on 25 May 2020, at 14:06

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