Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her biographical songwriting, artistic reinventions, and cultural impact, Swift is a leading figure in popular music and the subject of widespread public interest.

Swift signed to Big Machine Records in 2005 starting as a country singer with the albums ''Taylor Swift'' (2006) and ''Fearless'' (2008). Her singles "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Love Story", and "You Belong with Me" found crossover success on country and pop radio formats. She experimented with rock on ''Speak Now'' (2010) and electronic on ''Red'' (2012), later recalibrating her image from country to pop with the synth-pop album ''1989'' (2014); the ensuing media scrutiny inspired the hip-hop-imbued ''Reputation'' (2017). The albums contained the ''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 electropop album ''Lover'' (2019) and the autobiographical documentary ''Miss Americana'' (2020), explored indie folk styles in the 2020 albums ''Folklore'' and ''Evermore,'' and subdued pop genres on ''Midnights'' (2022) and ''The Tortured Poets Department'' (2024). She began re-recording her Big Machine albums as ''Taylor's Version'' since 2021, due to an ownership dispute with the label. Through the 2020s, she garnered the US number one songs "Cardigan", "Willow", "All Too Well", "Anti-Hero", "Cruel Summer", "Is It Over Now?", and "Fortnight". Her sixth concert tour, the Eras Tour (2023–2024), and its accompanying concert film are respectively the highest-grossing tour and concert film of all time.

With 200 million units sold worldwide, Swift is one of the world's best-selling music artists, with a record seven albums that sold over one million copies first-week. She is the highest-grossing female touring act, the first billionaire with music as primary income, and the world's richest female musician. She has been listed amongst history's greatest artists by publications such as ''Rolling Stone'', ''Billboard'' and ''Forbes'', as well as the only individual from the arts to have been named the ''Time'' Person of the Year (2023). Her accolades include 14 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, 40 American Music Awards, 39 ''Billboard'' Music Awards, and 30 MTV Video Music Awards; she has won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year and the IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year at least four times each. Swift is an advocate of artists' rights and women's empowerment. Her fans are known as Swifties. Provided by Wikipedia