Trivia

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".

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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

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 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".

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Her lucky number is 13.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Is of Scottish, German, and Italian heritage.

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.

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)".

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

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

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.

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.

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

Taylor Swift holds the record for the the most No. 1 albums on the Billboard Albums Chart by a female artist.

Taylor Swift was the first artist to win Billboard's "Woman Of The Decade" award.