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List of awards and nominations received by Taylor Swift

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List of awards and nominations received by Taylor Swift
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The American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has received numerous industry awards and honorary accolades. She is the most-awarded artist of the American Music Awards (40),[1] the Billboard Music Awards (49),[2] the MTV Video Music Awards (30),[3] and the iHeartRadio Music Awards (34).[4] She has the most Album of the Year wins at the Grammy Awards (4)[5] and the most Video of the Year wins at the MTV Video Music Awards (5),[6] and she has been recognized as the Global Recording Artist of the Year by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry more times than any other artist (5).[7]

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Swift began her career in country music.[8] She was nominated for Best New Artist at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in 2008.[9] Her second studio album, Fearless (2008), won Album of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, and Grammy Awards; it further won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album.[10] Her singles "White Horse" (2008) and "Mean" (2010) both won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song; the former also won Best Female Country Vocal Performance, and the latter Best Country Solo Performance.[11][12] Her soundtrack single "Safe & Sound" for The Hunger Games (2011) won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.[13]

Swift transitioned from country to pop stardom with her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014),[14] which won Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards in 2016, where the music video for its single "Bad Blood" won Best Music Video.[15] At the 2016 BMI Pop Awards, Swift was honored with the Taylor Swift Award, becoming the second artist after Michael Jackson to have an award named after its recipient.[16] In 2019, Swift was honored as the Woman of the Decade by Billboard[17] and the Artist of the Decade at the American Music Awards.[18] Her eighth studio album, Folklore (2020), won Album of the Year at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2021.[19] She became the first woman honored with the Global Icon Award at the Brit Awards, in 2021.[20]

In 2023, Swift became the first entertainer to be honored as Time's Person of the Year.[21] She achieved her fourth Grammy Award for Album of the Year with her tenth studio album, Midnights (2022), which also won Best Pop Vocal Album, at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards in 2024.[5] The Grammy nomination for Song of the Year of "Anti-Hero" made her the first songwriter to have seven nominations in this category.[22] Swift's eleventh album, The Tortured Poets Department (2024), made her the first woman to earn seven Album of the Year nominations at the Grammys.[23]

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Guinness World Records

As of December 2023, Swift has acquired 118 Guinness World Records.

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  1. Indicates the year of ceremony. Each year is linked to the article about the awards held that year, wherever possible.
  2. Tied with Alan Jackson
  3. In 2008, Swift had six tracks enter the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100: "Change", "Love Story", "Fearless", "You're Not Sorry", "You Belong with Me" and "White Horse".
  4. On November 14, 2009, Swift became the first act to place five tracks ("Jump Then Fall", "Untouchable", "Other Side of the Door", "Superstar" and "Come in with the Rain") inside the top 20 of Billboard Digital Song Sales chart at the same time.
  5. 19 years old
  6. Swift was 20 years old when she first won the award in 2010 for her second studio album, Fearless. Billie Eilish surpassed this record in 2020, winning the award for When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, when she was 18 years old.
  7. In the week ending February 6, 2010, "Today Was A Fairytale" topped the Billboard Digital Song Sales chart and sold a record 325,000 digital downloads in the U.S.
  8. For the week ending November 13, 2010, Swift's third studio album, Speak Now, sold 278,000 digital downloads in the U.S.
  9. In the week ending November 13, 2010, Speak Now shifted 1,047,000 copies, accounting for a record 18% of all album sales in the U.S. that week. Red suppressed it in November 2012 with over 1.2 million copies.
  10. In November 2010, Swift had a record 11 tracks from Speak Now charting on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. This record was broken by many women before Swift regained the record with the 18 tracks of her seventh album, Lover, in 2019. In 2021, 26 tracks from her second re-recorded album, Red (Taylor's Version), simultaneously debuted on the Hot 100, marking the first time an artist charted so many Hot 100 entries in a single week.
  11. Swift became the first artist to have two singles debut in the top 10 of the Hot 100 in successive weeks, with "Speak Now" on October 23, 2010, and "Back To December" on October 30, 2010.
  12. Swift is the first artist to have seven of her singles debut inside the Hot 100 top 10, breaking the record of five singles set by Mariah Carey in 1998. Swift did it with "Change"(2008), Fearless" (2008), "Jump Then Fall" (2009), "Today Was a Fairytale" (2010), Mine" (2010), "Speak Now" (2010) and "Back To December" (2010).
  13. Achieved with Speak Now (2010) and Red (2012)
  14. On August 14, 2012, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" topped the iTunes singles chart in just 50 minutes after release.
  15. Red sold 1.208 million copies in a week, ousting Garth Brooks' Double Live (1.085 million on December 5, 1998).
  16. The albums Speak Now (2010), Red (2012), and 1989 (2014), each sold more than a million copies within one week each.
  17. Swift had won 24 Teen Choice Awards as of August 16, 2015; 22 of those as a musician and two as an actress. She extended the record with 26 as of September 2023
  18. Swift achieved it with Speak Now (2010), Red (2012), and 1989 (2014), and extended the record in 2017 with her sixth studio album, Reputation, and in 2022 with her tenth studio album, Midnights.
  19. Swift and her ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris earned a combined $146 million from June 2014 to June 2015; Swift earned $80 million and Harris $66 million.
  20. She earned an estimated $170 million in the 12 months leading up to June 1, 2016, according to Forbes.
  21. According to Forbes, Swift earned an estimated $170 million in the 12 months leading up to June 1, 2016, beating Katy Perry's earnings of 2014–15 by $35 million. Swift earned $185 million between June 1, 2018, and June 1, 2019, surpassing her own record.
  22. Had 2,110,214,601 views on May 11, 2017; surpassed by Katy Perry's "Roar" (2013).
  23. "Look What You Made Me Do" collected 84.4 million streams in its first week.
  24. The music video was watched 43.2 millions times in its first day on YouTube. Swift's "Me!" regained this record in 2019, after which it was broken again on multiple occasions.
  25. 8 million streams in its first 24 hours on Spotify; this record has been surpassed multiple times since then.
  26. "Look What You Made Me do" music video was watched 43.2 million times in its first day on YouTube. American singer Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next" (2018) surpassed it with 55.4 million views, before Swift broke the record again with 65.2 million views of "Me!" (2019).
  27. Amassed $345.7 million in 2018, according to Billboard.
  28. The music video for "Lalisa" (2021), the solo debut single of Thai rapper Lisa, broke the record on September 14, 2021.
  29. "Me!" ascended 98 spots from number 100 to 2 on the Hot 100 chart dated May 11, 2019.
  30. She earned an estimated $185 million between June 1, 2018, and June 1, 2019, according to Forbes.[546]
  31. 36 weeks, as of June 22, 2019. Increased to 51 weeks, as of November 5, 2022, and to 80, as of October 7, 2022
  32. Swift first acquired the record with 29 American Music Awards as of November 24, 2019; surpassed herself with a record of 34, as of November 21, 2021; and the current record of 40, as of November 20, 2022.
  33. Twice; 2014 and 2019.
  34. IFPI reported Lover was 2019's biggest-selling album by a solo artist, selling 3.2 million copies globally.
  35. Folklore garnered 80.6 million streams on July 24, 2020, breaking the record set by Ariana Grande's Thank U, Next in 2019. Swift's own Red (Taylor's Version) later surpassed Folklore with 90.8 million streams. Her tenth studio album, Midnights, subsequently broke the overall all-gender record with 184.6 million streams on October 21, 2022.
  36. 47 weeks, as of October 3, 2020.
  37. Evermore topped the chart 140 days after Folklore did.
  38. 26, as of June 10, 2023. Swift first achieved the record on March 20, 2021, with 22 number-ones, which was updated to 24 on November 5, 2022; Her first chart-topper was "Today Was a Fairytale" (2010), and "Hits Different" (2022) the latest.
  39. Three, tied with Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, and Paul Simon; Swift won the award for Fearless, 1989, and Folklore, in 2010, 2016, and 2021, respectively.
  40. 31 years and 149 days old when she received it.
  41. Fearless (Taylor's Version) ascended 156 spots on the chart dated October 16, 2022.
  42. Swift received 122.9 million streams on November 12, 2021, but subsequently achieved the overall record, receiving 228 million streams on October 21, 2022.
  43. 26 new entries on the chart dated November 27, 2021.
  44. Evermore (January 2, January 16 and June 12), Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (April 24 and October 16), and Red (Taylor’s Version) (November 27) in 2021.
  45. US$80,000,000 earned in 2021
  46. 35 nominations as of 2022
  47. 776,481,256 streams in the week ending October 27, 2022.
  48. 549,260,000 streams
  49. 575,000 vinyl LPs sold in one week, surpassing Harry Styles' Harry's House, while sold 182,000 vinyl LPs in one week in 2022.
  50. 56, as of November 5, 2022; 63 weeks, as of July 29, 2023.
  51. Six, including the latest "Anti-Hero".
  52. Five, a tie with Ariana Grande
  53. 40, surpassing Madonna (38) in 2022; updated to 42 in 2023.
  54. 10 tracks from Midnights.
  55. 11 tracks from Midnights.
  56. 11 in 2022, tying with Barbra Streisand, and broke the tie when it became 12 in 2023.
  57. 11
  58. 4 times; Folklore and "Cardigan, Evermore and "Willow", Red (Taylor's Version) and "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)", and Midnights and "Anti-Hero".
  59. Nine tracks from Midnights
  60. Swift, surpassing Ariana Grande, achieved the record with 35 billion streams as of November 2022, and extended the record to 41 billion streams as of February 2023.
  61. "Anti-Hero" (No.1), "Lavender Haze" (No.2), "Snow on the Beach" (No.3), "Maroon" (No.4) and "Midnight Rain" (No.5); all from Midnights
  62. 10 albums on charts dated March 4 and May 6, 2023.
  63. Over 100 million on August 29, 2023
  64. 212 as of July 22, 2023.
  65. Seven, as of 2023.
  66. US$246,365,022
  67. $1.039 billion, as of November 2023.
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