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9 Fantastic Facts About Taylor Swift, That Every Fan Should Know

Swifty was named after James Taylor.

Taylor Swift got her name after the American singer-songwriter and guitarist, James Taylor. Her mother, Andrea Swift, thought that if she had a gender-neutral name, it might help Taylor in her career. Its fate or her talent? What would have happened if her parents didn’t come up with the name-strategy? Would Tay Tay be as famous as she is now? No doubt, there was harmonious chemistry between talent and fate, to create the Taylor Swift we all love.

In 2011, Taylor Swift and James Taylor ended up together on the same stage, singing the songs: ‘Fire and Rain’ and “Fifteen.”

About Taylor Swift’s Networth. Did you know Forbes ranked her twice as the world’s highest-paid celebrity?

Taylor Alison Swift has been active in the music industry since 2004, when she was only 14 years old. At just 27 years old, Swift became the youngest name ever to be included on Forbes’s 100 most powerful women, with a net worth of $280 million.

So how much money Taylor Swift made in her 15 years of career? In 2019, Forbes estimated Swift’s networth at 360$ million.
Swift has topped twice the Forbes Celebrity 100 (in 2015 and 2019), and she also smashed twice the record for the highest-grossing tour by a woman in the US.

In 2016, Forbes ranked Swift at #1 on their annual highest-paid celebrity list, after she pulled in a pre-tax income of 170$ million.

All thanks to her 1989 World Tour, which broke the record for the highest-grossing US tour by a female artist, surpassing Perry’s record earnings by $35 million.

Swift ranks as the 2019 world’s highest-earning celebritys after pulled in an estimated $185 million in pre-tax earning.

The Reputation Tour surpassed her own 1989 World Tour as the highest-grossing US tour by a woman, grossing in $266 million.

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About Taylor A. Swift’s Lucky Number (13).

Taylor Swift has a deep and strange connection with the number 13, basically its everywhere in her universe. It all started the day Swift was born on 13 December 1989.

Swift turned 13 years on Friday 13th.
Her official Twitter account is @TaylorSwift13.
Herself-titled debut album went gold in thirteen weeks.
Her first number one hit ”Our song” had 13 seconds intro.
Fearless (2008) and 1989 (2014) is Swift’s only albums that won the Grammy, and both albums have 13 tracks.

Taylor confessed that whenever won an award, she has been seated in either the 13th seat, the 13th row, or row M (the 13th alphabetical letter). Swift assures her fans that the number can only mean something extraordinary will happen in her life.

Swift has a way of sneaking her lucky 13 in all over her music:

“The Lucky One” has a 13-sec intro, is the 13th track on her Red album and the word “lucky” is mentioned 13 times on the song.
In the ”You Need to Calm Down” video, Swift’s watch includes number 13, and the number 1 and 2 are erased.
At 2:31 in ”Look What You Made Me Do” video, one of Swift’s versions appears with the number 13 painted over her hand.

For many of her tours, Swift painted her lucky number on hand before each show, but as of Red World Tour, she no longer does this.

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Taylor Swift Owns Two Dassault Falcons Jets.

Since 2011, Taylor Swift is the proud owner of a Dassault-Breguet Mystere Falcon 900, branded with her lucky number (13) close to the main cabin door. The jet’s registration code, N898TS, is thought to be a reference to her birth year (1989), the number of #1 songs she had at the time when purchased the aircraft (8), and her initials (TS). Swift paid around 40$ million on her Falcon 900, which is registered to a company titled “S A T A, LLC” in Nashville, sharing the same address with her management company, 13 Management. SATA is thought to represent her initials (TS), and her family members, Andrea (mother, Austin (brother) and Scott (father). In 2012, Swift bought a smaller jet, a Dassault Falcon 50.

Both planes were built by the same French company, Dassault Aviation (also known for building the Rafale fighter jet), but there are also few key differences.

The Falcon 900 aircraft is five feet longer than the Falcon 50.
Swift’s The Falcon 900 can set up to 12 people, while The Falcon 50 plane can transport 9 passengers plus the crew.
Manufactured in 1998, Swift’s Falcon 50 is one of the 352 produced between 1976 until 2008.

For four years, Taylor Swift was the most awarded artist in the BMA’ history.

Taylor Swift’s first BMAs victory came in 2011, at five years since releasing her self-titled debut album. That year, she took home three Billboard trophies in one night, including top country album award, top country artist award, and top Billboard 200 artist award.

Taylor Swift is the only musician to win eight or more Billboard Music Awards more than once, taking home eight trophies in both 2013 and 2015.

Her wins from 2015, crowned Swift as the most awarded artist in the Billboard Music Awards history with 20 wins, surpassing Garth Brook’s 19-win record.

Swift held the Billboard record for four years until it was surpassed by Drake with 27 wins.

Currently, Taylor Swift and Beyonce both hold the record for most Billboards Music Awards won by a woman with 23 wins. At the 2016 BMAs, Swift was decorated with “The Taylor Swift Award,” ranking as the second music artist after Michael Jackson to be honored with a self-titled award.

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Taylor Swift is the First Musician To Have Four Albums Sell 1 Million Copies In a Week in the US.

For an album to shift 1 million copies in its first week since release , is an incredible achievement. Currently, there is a small group of musicians who achieved this, most of which have only one album, rare are those with two. Swift is reigning over all of them, being the first and only musician to see four full-lengths move at least 1 million units in a week.

Back in 2010, Taylor Swift sold for the first time a million album units in a week with her third record Speak Now. (1,047,000 copies).
Two years later, her RED album shifted 1,208,000 units.
In 2014, her fifth studio album 1989 sold 1,287,000 units making Taylor Swift the first woman to have three albums, which shifted over 1 million copies within one week in the US.
Her darkest album, Reputation, reached the incredible goal of shifting over one million units in only four days.

However, her latest album, Lover, became her first record since 2010, which failed to reach the 1 million units sale goal. Check out: Taylor Swift Set Over 30 World Records throughout her career

With FEARLESS, Taylor Swift broke Two World Records For The Youngest Artist.

Released in 2008, Swift’s 2nd album FEARLESS became the US best-selling album of the year with over 3.2 million sold units. Thanks to FEARLESS, at the age of 18, Swift was recognized as the youngest artist in history to have the year’s best-selling album. At the 2010 Grammy Awards, FEARLESS won the Album of the Year giving Swift, 20 at the time, the distinction of being the youngest artist ever to win that Grammy. Swift surpassed Alanis Morissette’s win for Jagged Little Pill at the age of 21.

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Tay Tay Writes Her Songs.

A high percentage of Swift’s released songs are written by herself. Swift wrote her first song ”Lucky You” at 12 years old, after being inspired by a computer repairman who taught her how to play three chords on a guitar. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked Taylor Swift at #97 on the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. At the age of 18 years and 9 days, Taylor Swift became the youngest solo writer and singer of a #1 country song with her single “Our Song.”

About Taylor Swift’s boyfriends and breakup songs

Swifts confessed that she finds the greatest inspiration in her ex-boyfriends. Every time one of her relationships came to an end, Tay Tay wrote a song about it. Here is a list of a few of Swifts’ ex-boyfriends and the songs they have inspired (based on clues and rumors). Joe Jonas (2008) – Joe split up with Swift over a 27-second phone call. It was her first public breakup, which also ended up quite brutally. It’s rumored that the Jonas brother is the inspiration for the tracks “Forever & Always,” “Last Kiss,” and ”Holy Ground.” Taylor Lautner (2009) – “Back To December” is an apology song-letter wrote by Swift to an ex-boyfriend for a rough night when she dumped him. Released exactly after one year since their romance, the song its thought to be about her ex-boyfriend Lautner due to the lyrics his “tan skin” and “sweet smile.”

John Mayer (2009) – Mayer might be Tay Tay’s most remembered beau due to the sad song she wrote him, “Dear John.” To which J. Mayer responded musically with the track, “Paper Doll.”

Harry Styles (2012) – Swift’s song “Out Of The Woods” it’s rumored to be about Styles, with some lyrical references to their brief December romance and the snowmobile accident they had. In turn, One Direction’s track “Perfect” is thought to be inspired by Style’s idyll with Swift.

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Calvin Harris (2015) – Swift’s romance with Harris, stands as her longest-running relationship (for fifteen months). There is circulating a rumor that her track “We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together” it’s about Calvin, but neither Calvin or Swift commented on it. Joe Alwyn (2017) – It currently past over two years, and the couple seems happier than ever. Swift and her current beau Alwyn kept their relationship covered in mystery. Tay Tay confirmed that her tracks ”Gorgeous” and ”..Ready for It?” are about Joe Alwyn.

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