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Time magazine named Swift Person of the Year in 2023, the first individual entertainer to receive that honor. She also appeared on the cover in 2017 as part of The Silence Breakers for speaking out against sexual abuse and harassment. She is the first and only woman to appear twice on the cover of Time’s Person of the Year.
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Swift’s childhood on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, Pennsylvania inspired her song Christmas Tree Farm.
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The songs Wildest Dreams and You’re Losing Me incorporate Swift’s own heartbeat.
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Swift owns three cats named Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button.
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She maintains homes in New York City, Rhode Island, Nashville, and Los Angeles.
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Her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, was an opera singer.
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Swift did not initially own the master recordings for her first six albums, leading her to release rerecorded versions with Taylor’s Version added to the titles. Rerecorded releases of Fearless, Speak Now, Red, and 1989 began in 2021. In 2025 she regained control of her original masters and cancelled plans for rerecorded versions of Reputation and her debut album.
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Actress Blake Lively is a close friend of Swift, who included names of Lively’s daughters James, Betty, and Inez in the song Betty.
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Swift frequently appears barefoot in her music videos and photo shoots, a personal preference.
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In February 2024, Swift became the first artist to win four Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, surpassing Frank Sinatra’s three.
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She achieved billionaire status solely through music earnings, a first.
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Swift was homeschooled around age 14.
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Her song Fortnight featuring Post Malone is the fastest song to reach 100 million streams on Spotify.
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The backing vocals on It’s Nice to Have a Friend were provided by a Toronto children’s choir that was in financial trouble; Swift’s use of their recording earned them royalties.
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Swift’s eleventh studio album The Tortured Poets Department 2024 had the second best selling week in US history with 2.6 million units, behind Adele’s 25.
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Concerts on the Eras Tour have caused seismic activity, with seismographs in Edinburgh recording movements up to six kilometers away during shows in June 2024.
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Swift is the youngest artist to write and perform a No. 1 song on the Hot Country Songs chart.
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She holds the record for most songs by a female artist to reach over 1 billion streams on Spotify, including Cruel Summer, Blank Space, and Shake It Off.
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The Eras Tour is the highest grossing concert tour of all time, earning more than $1 billion.
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Swift’s attendance at Super Bowl LVIII to support boyfriend Travis Kelce made it the most watched telecast in US history.
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The concert film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is the highest grossing concert tour film ever.
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Swift is the most awarded artist in American Music Awards history with 40 wins as of April 2024.
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She announced her engagement to NFL tight end Travis Kelce on August 26, 2025 after nearly two years of dating.
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At the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards, Swift won Video of the Year, becoming the artist with the most wins in that category.
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Swift is the only artist to occupy the entire top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, doing so in November 2022 with Midnights and again in 2024 with The Tortured Poets Department, which claimed the top 14 spots.
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The song Marjorie features the voice of her grandmother, opera singer Marjorie Finlay, and is about her.
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Her second album Fearless is the most awarded country album in history.
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The number 13 is Swift’s lucky number.
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Swift is related to poet Emily Dickinson as sixth cousins, three times removed.
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At the 2016 Grammys, Swift became the first female artist to win Album of the Year twice, for 1989.
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She holds the record for most weeks spent in the top ten of the Billboard 200, surpassing The Beatles.
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Time magazine included Swift on its Time 100 list of most influential people in 2010, 2015, and 2019.
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Swift uses the voice of Blake Lively’s daughter James in the intro of Gorgeous.
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In 2014, Swift became the first female artist to replace herself at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 when Blank Space dethroned Shake It Off.
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The non-single I Can Do It with a Broken Heart is the fastest such song to reach 100 million streams on Spotify.
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Swift is the first artist to score six No. 1 albums each selling over one million units.
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Her heritage includes Scottish, German, English, and Italian roots.
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Ticket sales for the Eras Tour exceeded 2.4 million in a single day, a record.
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At the 2021 Grammys, Swift won Album of the Year for Folklore, becoming the first female artist to win the award three times.
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Upon release of The Tortured Poets Department, Swift became the most streamed artist in a single day on Spotify, and the album itself set a streaming record with 313 million daily streams.
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An accidental 8-second static track released in 2014 reached No. 1 on the Canadian iTunes Chart.
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Her song All Too Well 10 Minute Version Taylor’s Version From the Vault is the longest song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Swift is the first artist on Spotify to have over 200 songs each with more than 100 million streams.
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Her eight shows at London’s Wembley Stadium on the Eras Tour in 2024 broke the record for a solo artist, previously held by Michael Jackson’s Bad Tour.
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Swift has a tradition of buying a copy of her own album at a Target store on release day.
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She holds the top 10 songs with the highest debut streams on Spotify, led by Fortnight featuring Post Malone.
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Swift wrote Rihanna’s most streamed song on Spotify, This Is What You Came For under the alias Nils Sjöberg.
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At age 20, Swift won the Grammy for Album of the Year for Fearless, making her the youngest winner at the time; Billie Eilish later took the record.
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Swift holds the record for most No. 1 hits on the US Digital Song Sales Chart.
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She holds the record for most No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 by a female artist.
