Taylor Swift Set Over 30 World Records throughout her career
America’s sweetheart, Taylor Swift, set over thirty Music World Records throughout her 15 years career.
At the age of 18, Taylor Alison Swift scored her first World Record when it became the first solo musician with most entries on the US Top 20. One year later, she became the youngest singer to be named Entertainer of the Year, and her second album Fearless became the best selling of 2009.- Swift is the first musician to notch up most million-selling weeks on TOP Albums 200, this being one of her most tremendous achievements.
- The single ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ set four records in its first seven days, and the track song ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” set the record the fastest-selling digital single ever on iTune.
Check the full list of Taylor Swift’s World Records, ordered from her first win to the last.
Most entries in the US Top 20 in a year by a solo music artist
- In 2008, Taylor Alison Swift had six songs entering the Top 20 in their first seven days on the Hot 100 chart.
“Love Story,” “You Belong With Me,” “White Horse,” “You’re Not Sorry” and “Change.”
Swift is The Youngest Artist to win CMA’s ”Entertainer of the year” (2009).
- At 19 years old, Taylor Swift became the youngest musician to receive the Country Music Association’s highest trophy, Entertainer of the Year.
Most simultaneous top 20 entries on the US
digital chart
On 14 November 2009, the “Shake It Off” artist became the first musician to have five songs chart simultaneously on the digital chart. The five tracks come from the Fearless Platinum Edition CD. “Untouchable,” “Other Side of the Door,” “Jump Then Fall,” “Come in with the Rain” and “Superstar”
“Today Was A Fairytale” was ranked as The Fastest-selling US digital download by a female artist.
At the beginning of February 2010, Swifty smashed the record for the US biggest first-week download sales by a female musician. She achieved this mark with the country-pop song, “Today Was A Fairytale” which debuted at #1 on The Digital Songs chart and sold 325,000 digital copies.- The previous holder of the record was Britney Spears with her song “Womanizer.”
Her third album ‘Speak Now’ broke 2 Music Records.
- The Fastest-selling US digital album by a female artist. The country-pop album, Speak Now by Swift, set a new record for Fastest-selling digital album in the US by a female musician, after selling 278,000 digital copies in its first week.
- The Fastest-selling US album by a female country singer. In October 2010, Swift released her third album which, sold per total 1,047,000 copies in the US,(769,000 physical CDs and 278,000 digital) in seven days. By doing so, Speak Now smashed the record for the biggest first-week sales tally for an album by a female country singer, overthrowing Shania Twain’s Up!
Swift scored The Most Top Ten Debuts on the Hot 100 chart.
In 2010, the pop singer Taylor Swift became the first and only musician to have seven of her songs enter in Top Ten of the Hot 100 chart. The singles are.
“Fearless” (2008), “Jump” (2008), “Jump Then Fall” (2009), “Speak Now” (2010), ”Today Was A Fairytale” (2010), “Back To December” (2010) and “Mine.”Swift snatched the record title from Mariah Carey, who set the record of five in 1998. Currently, Taylor Swift ranks on second with 16 songs, after by Drake which scored 23.
Taylor Swift held the record for The Most Simultaneous Hot 100 Songs by a Female.
In November 2010, Taylor secured a new record for the Most Simultaneous US Hot 100 hits by a female artist, after scoring 11 songs from which 10 of those singles are marking their chart debut. In 2016, Beyonce surpassed Taylor Swift’s record, when it scored 12 simultaneous songs all coming from her sixth album, Lemonade.
The first artist to have singles enter in the TOP 10 of Hot 100 in successive weeks.
In 2010, Taylor Swift became the first musician to have two songs debut in the TOP 10 of Hot 100 chart in successive weeks, with “Speak Now” on 23 October and “Back To December” on 30 October. Unfortunately, the following week, her song “Mean” failed to enter in the top 10 and ranked at #11.First Solo Female with Two Million-Selling Weeks on the US 200 Album Chart.
In 2012, Taylor Swift was recognized as the ‘First Solo Female to notch up Two Million-Selling Weeks on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart.
- It happened thanks to her third and fourth album, Speak Now (2010), respectively Red (2012), after both selling over one million copies in one week.
WANEGB was ranked as The Fastest-Selling Single in Digital History (iTune)
On 14 August 2012, Taylor Swift’s bubblegum pop song “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” broke the world record for the iTune fastest-selling digital single.- In 50 minutes since its release on the giant media application, the song climbed to No.1 on the singles sales chart.
- The lead single of Swift’s Red album reached No.1 approximately two hours faster than “Born this Way” by Lady Gaga.
- Five days later, Taylor broke the record for the biggest digital sales week ever for a song by a woman, with 623,000 sold copies. The single “WANEGBT” is currently on the third spot overall.
Taylor Swifts holds the record title for the Most Million-Selling Weeks on the US Albums Chart with 4 Consecutive Albums.
The multi-record breaker, Taylor Swift is the only musician to notch up four million-selling weeks on Billboard 200 albums chart, since the Nielsen system started tracking sales in 1991. Swift achieved this mark after her four consecutive albums sold over 1 million copies in its first week:
- Speak Now sold 1.047 million copies (13 November 2010);
- Red reigned the chart with sales of 1.208 million units (10 November 2012);
- 1989 sold 1.287 million copies (15 November 2014);
- Reputation sold with 1.216 million copies (2 December 2017);
Taylor and Harris were recognized as The world’s highest-paid celebrity couple by Forbes.
The pop sensation, Taylor Swift and the Scottish musician Calvin Harris, together have earned a combined of $146 million (£94.2 million) from June 2014 to June 2015. Swift brought on table $80 million, while Calvin came with $66 million. According to the 2015 Forbes Celebrity List, Taylor and Harris snatched the record title from the previous year’s winners, The Carters.
- Beyonce and her rap mogul husband topped the Forbes list in 2013.
- However, The Carters got the record title back when Taylor Swift broke up with Calvin Harris in early 2016.
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By becoming the highest-earning celebrity of the year, Swift set Three World Records.
Swift was ranked at No.1 on Forbes Richest list of the 100 highest-earning celebrities of 2015–16. Taylor Swift earned $170 million (£116.3 million) in twelve months to 1st June 2016, having a great increase in her previous year’s earnings of $80 million.
- Highest annual earnings ever for a female pop star – Katy Perry’s record earnings of the previous year- were surpassed by Taylor Swift with $35 million.
- Highest annual earnings for a musician – The next highest-earning solo singers in the 2015–16, was Adele with $80.5 million and Madonna with $76.5 million.
- Highest-earning living celebrity (female) – Swift’s 1989 World Tour is estimated to have grossed $250 million, and she also signed deals with Apple, Diet Coke, and Keds.
4 World Records for Most Teen Choice Awards Won.
Taylor Swift holds the Guinness record title for The Most Teen Choice Awards won by an individual with 25 wins. This leads automatically to another three records titles held by Swift.
- Most TCAs won by a female individual.
- The Most Awarded female musician at TCAs.
- The Guinness record title for The Most Teen Choice Awards won by a musician, with 22 wins.
Taylor Swift scored The Most weeks at No.1 on the Artist 100 chart.
Taylor Swift had shaken the music industry after she was recognized as the singer who scored the most weeks at No.1 on the Artist 100 chart, with a total of 31 weeks, as of 17 October 2015. Currently, Swift dominates the chart with a total of 36 weeks, while right behind her is Drake with 31 weeks, then The Weeknd (15 Weeks) and Ariana Grande (13 Weeks). Between 8 November 2014 and 24 January 2015, Taylor Swift was #1 for twelve consecutive weeks on the Billboard Artist 100 chart.
Tay Tay held the record title for the Most popular Snapchat username by a female singer.
The pop sensation, Taylor Swift, was the most popular female singer – and the 3rd most popular musician overall on the giant multimedia app Snapchat, as of 10 March 2017.
- DJ Khaled was the most popular music artist overall on Snapchat, as of March 2017.
- Currently, Rihanna holds the Snapchat record, and Taylor ranks as the second most-followed female singer and as the 6th most-followed singer on overall on Snapchat.
Most-viewed music video online (female artist).
As of May 2017, Taylor Swift had 2 music videos (“Shake It Off” and “Blank Space”) in Top 10 most-watched Youtube videos of all time.
- Both video clips were uploaded in 2014 to TaylorSwiftVEVO.
- Currently, only the track “Shake It Off” remained in the top occupying on #10.
- As of April 2019, “Blank Space” reached 2.4 billion views, and “Shake It Off” was played by 2.7 billion times.
“Look What You Made Me Do” smashed four World Records in its first days of release.
- On 27 August 2017, the track “Look What You Made Me Do” broke the Spotify record for the most streamed song in the first 24 hours, scoring 8 million streams. However, the streaming record was surpassed by Drake on January 19, 2018.
- The music video of LWYMMD broke the Youtube record for the most-watched video in 24 hours by earning over 43.2 million views. The record was overtaken by Korean boy band BTS.
- Son after its realease, the song video “Look What You Made Me Do” set a new VEVO record for most streams in the first day, scoring over 39 million streams. Later, it was surpassed by Ariana Grande’s worldwide hit “Thank U, Next.”
- The dance-pop single ‘LWYMMD’ set his 4th world record when scored the most weekly-streams for a song ever by a female artist, after reaching 84.4 million streams. The song of Taylor Swift ended the reign of ‘Despacito’ on Hot 100. Only the track song ‘Harlem Shake’ had more weekly streams than LWYMMD. (103 million).
Highest-grossing tour of 2018 by a musician (female).
Taylor Swift’s Reputation Stadium Tour had grossed $345.7 million from 53 shows and was attended by 2,888,892 fans.- The Reputation Stadium Tour is the fifth concert tour by the America sweetheart, in support of her sixth album Reputation.
- It started on 8 May 2017 in Glendale and ended on 21st November 2018 in Tokyo.
- The Reputation Tour was the second-highest-grossing tour of 2018 after the ‘Divide Tour’ by Ed Sheeran ($429.4 million) and the 13th highest-grossing concert tour ever.
Swift’s music video “Me!” smashed 2 streaming-records (Vevo & Youtube) in its first 24h online.
On 26 April 2017, at midnight Taylor Swift released the new music video “ME!” featuring Brendon Urie.- In twenty-four hours after Taylor Swift released the music video “Me!,” it surpassed Grande’s ‘Thank U, Next,” for the biggest number of streams on Vevo with over 65 million views. Currently, Swift holds three of the top five spots in Vevo’s ranking of the first 24 hour views.
- The music video for “Me!” it also broke the Youtube record becoming the most-watched video in its first 24 hours by a solo female artist and is the third most-viewed overall earning over 65.2 million views.
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