Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her autobiographical songwriting, artistic versatility, and cultural impact, Swift is one of the world's best-selling artists, the highest-grossing performer, the richest female musician, and the first billionaire with music as the main income.

Swift signed to Big Machine Records in 2005, debuting 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. She incorporated rock on ''Speak Now'' (2010) and electronic on ''Red'' (2012), later re-calibrating her image from country to pop with the synth-pop set ''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 contested with Big Machine for masters, re-recording four albums as ''Taylor's Version''. She explored indie folk styles in the 2020 sister-albums ''Folklore'' and ''Evermore,'' and experimented with pop subgenres on ''Midnights'' (2022) and the double album ''The Tortured Poets Department'' (2024). Throughout the 2020s, Swift garnered the number-one songs "Cardigan", "Willow", "All Too Well", "Anti-Hero", "Cruel Summer", "Is It Over Now?", and "Fortnight". In the U.S., a record seven Swift albums have sold one million copies first-week each. She has undertaken six concert tours, including the Eras Tour (2023–2024), the highest-grossing tour of all time. Her films include ''Miss Americana'' (2020), ''All Too Well: The Short Film'' (2021), and ''The Eras Tour'' (2023)—the highest-grossing concert film.

Swift is a subject of extensive media coverage and has a global fanbase of Swifties. Publications such as ''Rolling Stone'' and ''Billboard'' have listed her amongst history's greatest artists; she is the only individual from the arts to have been named the ''Time'' Person of the Year (2023). Her accolades include 14 Grammy Awards (including a record four Album of the Year wins), a record five IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Swift is the most-awarded artist of the American Music Awards (40), the ''Billboard'' Music Awards (49), and the MTV Video Music Awards (30). Provided by Wikipedia