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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The music-review site Pitchfork gave Lana Del Rey's debut album a 5.5 out of 10 in 2012. By the end of 2025, that same album had spent more time on the Billboard 200 than any album by a woman in history: 618 weeks, almost twelve years.

She got there by surviving one of the roughest welcomes in modern pop. When Born to Die came out, critics called her voice fake and her whole image a marketing stunt. Tabloids ran stories saying the record label had manufactured her. The album sold anyway, and finished 2012 as the fifth best-selling record in the world.

Then the same critics turned around. Her 2019 album Norman Fucking Rockwell! scored a 9.4 on Pitchfork, the highest grade they gave any album that year, and the review called her one of America's greatest living songwriters. It was the most-cited album in critics' end-of-year lists for 2019 and earned a nomination for Album of the Year. Rolling Stone now ranks it among the 500 greatest albums ever made.

The fans were there the whole time. "Summertime Sadness," a single off that panned debut, crossed 2 billion Spotify streams in 2025. Born to Die has been somewhere on the chart for almost twelve straight years.

Her mark is all over the artists who came after. Billboard credits her with pulling pop away from loud club music toward the slower, moodier sound that defined the 2010s, and names Lorde, Halsey, Miley Cyrus, and Taylor Swift among the artists she shaped. The Washington Post put her on its list of people who defined the decade. She was the only musician on it. NYU teaches a course on her music.

She has been nominated for 11 Grammys. She has won zero.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Taylor Swift made her debut 20 years ago today.

[The Eras Tour @tswifterastour]

🚨| TAYLOR SWIFT STUNS FOR "I KNEW IT, I KNEW YOU" OUT THIS FRIDAY!

[drew ☁️ @dailytaylorteaa]

“for a male artist”

[The Eras Tour @tswifterastour]

🚨| Taylor Swift stuns out and about!

[best of swift ❁ @besttofswift]

stunning

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Zara Larsson earns her first #1 on the US Spotify chart with ‘Stateside’ with PinkPantheress.

[CBC Olympics @CBCOlympics]

MACKINNON GIVES CANADA THE 3-2 LEAD WITH 30 SECONDS LEFT 🚨🇨🇦

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Thanks for the fleece, Hudson. I hear these are hard to come by.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Happy 36th birthday to the iconic Taylor Swift.

The 14x Grammy-winning superstar, who debuted in 2006, has taken the world by storm era after era, and record after record. Her impact has ranged from her songwriting talents, which landed her a Songwriter Hall of Fame nomination in her first year of eligibility, to the phenomenon of the Eras Tour, which is the highest-grossing tour of all time. She is the first artist in history to hold the entire Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 multiple times, which no other artist has done once. She was named TIME’s Person of the Year in 2023 and, this year, broke the record for biggest album opening in Billboard 200 history when her twelfth studio album opened at four million units. She also gained ownership to her first six albums and now fully owns her entire discography, which boasts four Album of the Year wins — the most for any singer ever.

[Lauren @Laursc0ttt]

@willtalksmusic

[Lauren @Laursc0ttt]

@SavLovesSwift I got 18🤣

[Lauren @Laursc0ttt]

Terrible time to be broke

[The Eras Tour @tswifterastour]

🚨| Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter stun out and about together!

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Sabrina Carpenter earns her second Album of the Year nomination at the #GRAMMYs with ‘Man's Best Friend.’

[bibs ☾🐾 @filmenchante]

IT’S TIIIIIIIIIIMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[marley ❤️‍🔥 @marleyharper]

i still miss the smoke

[BBQ Chiefs @BBQChiefs]

❤️💛🫶

(📸 IG/jessicannelmlinger)

[Lauren @Laursc0ttt]

Insane

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘The Fate of Ophelia’ by Taylor Swift has broken the record for most streamed song in a single day in Spotify history.

[Lauren @Laursc0ttt]

ROBBED