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Taylor Alison Swift (Reading, 13 december 1989) is een Amerikaans singer-songwriter, muzikante, regisseuse, dichteres, schrijfster en actrice. Ze werd internationaal bekend met de single Love story (2008) en had daarna nog diverse hits. Swift begon haar carrière in de countrymuziek, maar experimenteerde vanaf haar vierde album Red (2012) met haar muziekstijl. Haar daaropvolgende albums zijn te plaatsen in de popmuziek. Op folklore en evermore (beide uit 2020) zijn ook invloeden van indiemuziek te horen.

Swifts werk kent zowel commercieel als professioneel succes. Zes van haar albums verkochten meer dan 1 miljoen exemplaren in de Verenigde Staten in hun eerste week, wat haar de enige artiest maakt die dit heeft bereikt. Daarnaast is Swift in het bezit van veertien Grammy Awards, een van de hoogste onderscheidingen in de muziekindustrie. Ze won viermaal de Grammy Award voor Album of the Year (voor Fearless (in 2010), 1989 (2016), folklore (2021) en Midnights (2024)). Swift is de enige artiest die deze prijs vier keer heeft gewonnen. Swift is ook recordhouder voor wat betreft het hoogste aantal ontvangen American Music Awards (40) en MTV VMA Video of the Year Awards (4). In 2019 werd ze verkozen tot artiest van het decennium (jaren 10) door de American Music Awards en tot vrouw van het decennium (jaren 10) door het Amerikaanse muziektijdschrift Billboard. In 2023 riep Time Magazine haar uit tot Person of the Year, als enige soloartiest ooit.

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her autobiographical songwriting, artistic reinventions, and cultural impact, Swift is a leading figure in popular music and the subject of extensive media coverage, with a vast fanbase known as Swifties.

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 explored indie folk styles in the 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore. She experimented with subdued pop genres on Midnights (2022) and The Tortured Poets Department (2024), and began re-recording her Big Machine albums as Taylor's Version 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". 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.

With 200 million records sold, Swift is one of the world's best-selling music artists and has a record seven albums that each sold one million copies first-week in the US. She is the highest-grossing touring artist and the richest female musician, and the first billionaire with music as the primary source of income. She has been listed amongst history's greatest artists by publications such as Rolling Stone and Billboard, 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 (including a record four Album of the Year wins), a Primetime Emmy Award, and a record five IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year awards. Swift is the most-awarded artist of the American Music Awards (40), the Billboard Music Awards (49), and the MTV Video Music Awards (30).