Today marks #20YearsOfTaylorSwift.
Widely regarded as the biggest star on the planet, Taylor Swift has cultivated an era-defining career spanning 20 years, with her twelve record-shattering albums catapulting her into music history’s Big 5 (joining The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, and Queen), claiming the honor of being the #1 best-selling female artist of all time (with 270 million album units) and solidifying her place as the de facto leader of the 21st century.
She is the #1 highest-grossing touring artist of all time, the #1 Billboard 200 artist of all time, the #1 most-streamed artist in Spotify history, the #2 most-streamed artist in Apple Music history, the #1 best-selling artist of the 21st century, the #1 most-awarded female artist of all time, the youngest woman to ever be inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the only musical act to ever be hailed TIME’s Person of the Year, the only artist to ever have eight 1M+ debuts on Billboard 200, and the record holder for the most Album of the Year wins in GRAMMYs’ seven-decade history (with a legendary four AOTY wins).
Among the near-unbreakable records that have cemented and immortalized her legacy, the biggest of them all are her cataclysmic, economy-shifting, earthshaking Eras Tour holding the title as the #1 highest-grossing tour of all time (with an unprecedented $2.077 billion total); her streaming behemoth “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT” obliterating the record for the biggest album debut in Spotify history (with a whopping 314.5 million first-day streams); her being the only artist in history to ever *completely* sweep the entire Top 10, the entire Top 12, and the entire Top 14 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart; and her sales juggernaut “The Life of a Showgirl” holding the record for the biggest album debut in Billboard 200 history, amassing an astronomical 4.005 million album copies (U.S.) on its first week alone and practically breaking every single sales record in existence.
Her monumental 13th studio album is yet to come.
Why the heck do these people give a shit if she gets a number 1 song that (according to them "no one gives af about") when they've always yapped that "charts doesn't matter"? If you are bothered by it then don't keep up with chart updates.
It really gets to a point where these people who aren't even a fan of hers are always the first to have an opinion on whatever tf she does.
Like if you don't like her music why are you complaining about it's quality?
oh, she's writing more of that corny, verbose trash, overwrought w similes and metaphors, which she'll sing in her irritating voice over some stale synth-slop. it'll perform as a hit even if nobody in the real world will actually listen to it. how exciting!
@lippredicts You can't pretend it's strange that people think that way given the events of the last few months. I've always trusted you and your predictions, but you've become increasingly vague and contradictory, which makes me question everything
Taylor is counterculture in 2026 because she's not afraid to embrace whimsy and cringe in a society that demands that everyone take themselves overly seriously.
Most of you don't have the guts to dress in silly shirts because you care way too much for the approval of strangers.