12/15/2024
Happy 35th birthday to the gorgeous, mega talented, chart-topping, record-breaking, history-making, award-winning Singer, Songwriter, Director and Global Icon, the legendary One & Only Taylor Swift, IFPI's best-selling Global Artist for the past 4 years!👏🎂🥳🎁🎉🎈🐐👑🤍
is one of the best-selling Acts of All Time with certified sales of over 298.9 Million! She has sold 114 million album-equivalent units worldwide, 57 million of which are certified in the United States! She is the highest-grossing touring act, the first Billionaire with music as primary income, and the world's richest female musician! She is Billboard's Top Artist for the 4th non consecutive year with the most wins in history in the category, and the Top Awards Winner of All Time with 50 gongs in total! Taylor is also the female artist who has broken the most Billboard chart Records in history! She is the longest-reigning act on the Billboard Artist 100 (121 weeks), the Soloist with the most cumulative weeks atop the Billboard 200 (85) and the female Act with the most Billboard 200 number-ones (14), including 7 which sold one million first-week copies! Taylor is the female Artist with the most Hot 100 entries (263), top-5 songs (36), top-10 songs (59), top-20 songs (100),Top-40 songs (164), #1 debuts (7) & top-10 debuts (48)! She is the Act with the most number-one songs on Digital Song Sales (29)! She is also the only Artist in Billboard Hot 100 history to have occupied the entire Top 10 & Top 14 of the Billboard Hot 100!
Taylor is the most streamed Artist of All time on Spotify (96 BILLION) and the most streamed Artist of 2024 with over 26.6 Billion streams, the Biggest streaming year of All Time! She is the 2nd Most followed Artist on Spotify with 126.2 Million followers after Arijit Singh (128.5M)!
Taylor has the Highest-grossing concert film ever and the Highest Grossing concert Tour in history and first to gross over $2B!
Taylor has been honoured with several accolades including 14 Grammy Awards and 4 Album of the Year wins (the most AOTY wins for a female Artist in history), 40 American Music Awards (the most wins in AMAs history) including Artist of the Decade, 50 Billboard Music Awards (the most wins in BBMAs history), 30 MTV VMAs, 26 Teen Choice Awards (the most for a solo Artist in history), 25 iHeartRadio Music Awards wins (the most for a solo Artist in history), 2 BRIT Awards including the Global Icon Award and 117 Guinness World Records!
Taylor is Google's most searched songwriter of All Time and one of the greatest of the 21st century across 11 albums! She has been listed on the Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters in history, Billboard's Greatest of All Time Artists, and the World's 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes and is the 1st Entertainer in history to be named TIME's Person of the Year!
Taylor is also an extremely active philanthropist and one of the most generous in the music industry! She has supported her fans in need and donated to numerous charities over the years, and especially to relief funds following natural disasters. She ranked first on DoSomething's 2015 "Gone Good" and received the Star of Compassion from the Tennessee Disaster Services and the Big Help Award from the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for her "dedication to helping others" and "inspiring others through action". She donated $500,00 to support victims of the 2010 Tennessee floods and in 2016, she donated 1 Million to Louisiana flood relief efforts and $100,000 to the Dolly Parton Fire Fund. She also donated to food banks after Hurricane Harvey struck Houston in 2017 and gave $1 million for Tennessee tornado relief in 2020 and again in 2023, including $5 million toward the reliefs efforts after Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton in 2024! She has donated in particular to cancer research and to the World Health Organization and Feeding America during Covid-19! During her Eras Tour, Taylor donated to food banks at every stop, directly employing local businesses throughout the tour and gave $197 million in bonus payments to her entire crew!
