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Named Person of the Year by Time magazine in 2023, becoming the first entertainer to be named as an individual. She was also named among 2017's Persons of the Year, "The Silence Breakers", as people who spoke out against sexual abuse and harassment. She is the first and only woman in history to appear twice on the cover of Time's "Person Of The Year".

Has three cats: Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button.

Close friends with actress Blake Lively. Taylor included the names of three of Blake's daughters, James, Betty and Inez in her song, 'Betty'.

Grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, Pennsylvania, which would serve as the inspiration for her song, "Christmas Tree Farm".

Has homes in New York City, Rhode Island, Nashville, and Los Angeles.

She did not fully own the songs from her first 6 albums, so she rerecorded them and released them. She owns the rerecorded albums, and to show that, she adds (Taylor's Version) behind the name of the song. Example: Breathe (Taylor's Version). These albums also include vault tracks. There is a rerecorded version of Fearless, Speak Now, Red, and 1989. She still needs to rerecord Reputation and her self-titled debut album.

She loves being barefoot, and is frequently seen without shoes in her music videos and photo shoots.

Her songs "Wildest Dreams" and "You're Losing Me" have Swift's own heartbeat in it.

Is the granddaughter of an opera singer.

In February 2024, she became the first artist to win four Grammys in the category "Album of the Year". That record was previously held by Frank Sinatra, who had won three Grammys in that category.

Was home-schooled around the time she was 14.

The backing vocals in her song "It's Nice To Have A Friend" are from Toronto's children choir. The choir was in financial trouble and put the vocals out in hope that someone would use them and they could earn royalties. Fortune for them, Swift used it.

Her eleventh studio album "The Tortured Poets Department" is the second best selling album of all time behind Adele's "25".

Swift became the first person to achieve the billionaire status solely with music earnings.

Swift's "Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)" is the fastest song to reach 100 million streams in Spotify history.

Due to Swift's attendance at the final game of the Super Bowl LVIII, to support her boyfriend Travis Kelce, the show became the most watched telecast in U.S. History. The only other event to surpass this was the landing of Apollo 11 but it is regarded as news rather than a telecast.

She is the youngest artist in history to have written and performed a No. 1 song on the Hot Country Songs chart.

Her concerts have become notorious for causing seismic activity comparable to earthquakes, because her fans are dancing to her music so hard. In one instance, when she performed at the Murrayfield stadium in the weekend of June 7-9, 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland, seismographs have recorded activities within a range of up to six kilometres (3,7 miles) during each of her gigs.

She holds the record for the most songs to reach more than 1 Billion streams in Spotify history by a female artist. The songs to achieve this: "Cruel Summer", "Blank Space", "I Don't Wanna Live Forever", "Shake It Off", "Anti Hero", "Lover", "cardigan", "Style", "Look What You Made Me Do", "Don't Blame Me" and "august".

At the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards, Taylor Swift won the award for Video Of The Year, making her the artist with most "Video Of The Year" awards at the VMAs.

Taylor Swift is the most awarded artist in history of American Music Awards with 40 wins as of April, 2024.

Her "Eras Tour" which features work from all of her albums has become the highest grossing concert tour of all time, garnering more than 1 Billion USD which is miles ahead of the second most grossing concert.

Her lucky number is 13.

Her song "Marjorie" is about her grandmother, Marjorie Finlay who was an opera singer. Her voice is used in the background of the song.

Is the only artist in history to occupy the entire top of the Billboard Hot 100, and she has done this twice. Swift first did it in November 2022 with the release of her tenth studio album "Midnights". Songs from "Midnights" occupied the entire top 10 lead by "Anti Hero". Swift repeated her own historic feat in 2024 with the release of her album "The Tortured Poets Department". Songs from the album occupied the first 14 spots in the chart.

Apart from the song "Betty", Swift also uses Blake Lively's daughter's voice, James', in the intro of her song "Gorgeous".

She is related to American poet Emily Dickinson. They are sixth cousins, three times removed, and descend from an English immigrant from the 17th century.

Her second album "Fearless" is the most awarded country album in history.

Her concert tour film "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" is the highest grossing concert tour film of all time.

She is the artist with most number of weeks spent in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 200 surpassing The Beatles.

In 2014, Swift accidentally released a track with simply 8 seconds of static and it reached #1 on the Canadian iTunes Chart.

When Swift won Album Of The Year award at the Grammys in 2016 for her album "1989", she became the first female artist in history to win the award twice.

Swift's "I Can Do It With A Broken Heart" is the fastest non-single song to reach 100 million streams in Spotify history.

She wrote Rihanna's biggest song on Spotify: "This Is What You Came For".

She is the first artist in history to score six No. 1 albums with more than one million units sold in history.

Is of Scottish, German, and Italian heritage.

She became the first female artist to displace her own song from the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart when her song "Blank Space" dethroned her song "Shake It Off" in 2014.

Cats' ages: Olivia is 10. Meredith is 13. Benjamin is 5.

On the release of her eleventh studio album "The Tortured Poets Department", Taylor Swift broke her own record for the second time as she became the most streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history and "The Tortured Poets Department" became the most streamed album in a single day in Spotify history with 313+ million streams in a day. Swift had previously set the record with her own album "1989 (Taylor's Version)" which had broken the record of her tenth album "Midnights" which had achieved the same feat. Swift now has the three most streamed albums in a single day in Spotify history.

Has the top 10 songs with the highest debut streams in Spotify history with "Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)" topping the list.

Swift is the second most streamed artist in Spotify history behind Drake. However, she is the artist with the most lead streams in Spotify History as she is featured on very few songs unlike her competitors.

When the sales for her concert The Eras Tour began, it sold more than 2.4 million tickets in a day, setting a new record.

At the 2021 Grammys, Swift won Album Of The Year for her album "Folklore", making her the first female artist to win the award thrice.

The countdown page for Swift's album "The Tortured Poets Department" became the most pre-saved countdown page in Spotify history.

She has the longest song in history that reached #1 on the Billboard's Hot 100 Chart with her song "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)".

At the age of 20, she won Album Of The Year Grammy for her studio album "Fearless" and became the youngest artist in history to win that award. The spot was later taken by Billie Eilish who won the award at the age of 18, making Taylor the second youngest artist to win the award.

Swift, known for her commitment to the fight against Climate Change, has been a leading voice in raising awareness about the importance of preserving our planet. However, the revelation of her air travel has sparked criticism and debate about the consistency between her actions and her environmental ideals.

In August 2023, Taylor Swift became the female first artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify. In May 2024, she became the first female artist to reach 113 million monthly listeners on Spotify.

She holds the record for most No.1 hits at the US Digital Song Sales Chart.

Swift is the first artist in Spotify history to have more than 200 songs with 100 million streams on each.