Taylor

Taylor Swift has become a rare pop phenomenon: A star who strayed completely from traditional country music to popular culture to become a global icon which will be around forever, and has captured the hearts of millions across the world. Swift shed the country roots she was raised with like it's second nature to her and showed that she's one of the top pop singers and songwriters in the current generation. Swift could make the moment personal while also capturing the mood. These skills were evident on her very first singles, including neo-tribute Tim McGraw but her second album in 2008's Fearless showed a writer discovering herself and in the process, finding a mass audience. The album ended up with a lot of legs not only in the U.S. where it racked 6 platinum singles off the basis of Top Ten hits Love Story and Belong with Me Belong with Me but throughout the globe, performing especially well across The U.K. Canada and Australia. Speak Now delivered almost two years after that, and it consolidated the popularity and helped propel Swift up the ranks of celebrity. Swift gained popularity throughout the course of her three follow-up albums: Red (2012) as well as 1989 (2014) and Reputation (2017) which had established herself in the genre she was a part of. In the years after she pared her repertoire back with the stripped-down releases of the year 2020, folklore and Evermore however, she was still the king of pop. This position was maintained by re-recordings from her past albums as well as Midnights which was her highest-selling synth-heavy album planned for 2022.