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She is best known for her narrative songwriting that often centers around
her personal life, which has received widespread critical praise and media
coverage. 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 studio album was the
longest-charting album of the 2000s on the Billboard 200. 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 breakthrough second studio album, Fearless (2008), won four Grammy
Awards and produced the pop-crossover hit singles "Love Story" and "You
Belong with Me". It became the best-selling album of 2009 in the United
States and was certified Diamond by the RIAA.
Swift's self-written third studio album, Speak Now (2010), spawned the
Grammy-winning single "Mean", and her genre-bending fourth studio album,
Red (2012), earned Swift her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single,
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together". Her fifth studio album and
first all-pop project, 1989 (2014), produced the number-one singles "Shake
It Off" and "Blank Space" and won three Grammy Awards—including Album of
the Year—making Swift the first woman to succeed herself at the top spot
on the Hot 100 and the first woman to win Album of the Year twice as lead
artist. Her hip hop-inspired sixth studio album, Reputation (2017), made
her the first and only act in music history to have four albums each sell
one million copies in their first week in the U.S. and generated her fifth
Hot 100 number-one single, "Look What You Made Me Do". Her seventh studio
album, Lover (2019), broke the record for the most simultaneous Hot 100
entries by a female artist and became the global best-selling studio album
of 2019.
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. Her
accolades include 10 Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and seven Guinness
World Records; 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 (placing eighth). She was named Global Recording
Artist of the Year twice by the IFPI (2014 and 2019), Woman of the Decade
(2010s) by Billboard and the Artist of the Decade (2010s) by the American
Music Awards. |
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