Taylor

Taylor Swift is that rarest of pop phenomena: one of the most famous stars who successfully seamlessly transition from the country to the mainstream becoming an enduring pop culture icon and then conquering the world while doing it. Swift left her country roots as though they were part of her skin revealing that she was perhaps the savviest populist singer/songwriter of her generation someone who was able to harness the current zeitgeist and make it personal and equally impressively do in the opposite direction. Swift's early hits, especially their neo celebration of Tim McGraw, showed off her talents. However, her album Fearless revealed a songwriter who was re-discovering herself and was attracting a wide audience. Fearless was hugely popular, not just in the U.S., with six platinum-certified songs thanks to Top Ten songs Love Story & It's Yours to Belong with Me. It was also a huge success internationally, in areas like The U.K. Canada & Australia. Speak Now delivered almost two years after that, and it consolidated the popularity and moved Swift towards the top of superstardom. Through the course of three years, Swift's popularity grew through the years -in the form of Red (2012), Reputation (2014) and 1989 (2014-2015) during which time she moved into a realm of pop in which her talents had already been established. After she cut her music down with her stripped-down albums of 2020, folklore as well as Evermore but she was still a king in the charts with pop. The position was sustained through re-recordings of her previous catalog, as well Midnights the top selling synth heavy album released for 2022.