Taylor Swift

After signing with Republic Records in 2018, Swift re-recorded four of her Big Machine albums due to a dispute with the record label,[note 2] which sparked a debate in the industry about artist rights. She launched the eclectic pop album Lover (2019), the indie folk albums Folklore and Evermore (both in 2020), the pop minimalist albums Midnights (2022) and The Tortured Poets Department (2024) and the soft rock album The Life of a Showgirl (2025). Among her number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 in the 2020s are «Cardigan», «Willow», «All Too Well», «Anti-Hero», «Cruel Summer», «Is It Over Now?», «Fortnight», «The Fate of Ophelia» and «Opalite». Her tour The Eras Tour (2023-2024) is the highest-grossing concert tour of all time. The accompanying film, The Eras Tour (2023), became the highest-grossing concert film in history.

Swift is the first artist to sell over one million copies of each of her seven albums in the first week in the United States and has been named global recording artist of the year by the IFPI five times. Publications such as Rolling Stone and Billboard have included her among the greatest artists of all time. She is the first person in the world of art to be named Person of the Year by the magazine Time (2023). Among her awards are 14 Grammy Awards, including a record of four Album of the Year awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. She is the most awarded artist of the American Music Awards, the Billboard Music Awards and the MTV Video Music Awards. Swift, who is the subject of wide media coverage, has a global fan base known as swifties.

Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania. Her name comes from the singer-songwriter James Taylor; her parents chose a unisex name on purpose. Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch, and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), worked as a marketing executive for mutual funds. Her younger brother, Austin, is an actor. The siblings are of Scottish, English and German descent, with distant Italian and Irish ancestry. Her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay (née Moehlenkamp), was an opera singer, and her church singing became one of Swift's earliest musical memories.