List of awards and nominations received by Taylor Swift
The American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has received numerous industry awards and honorary accolades. She is the most-awarded artist of the American Music Awards (40)[1] and the Billboard Music Awards (39),[2] and she has the most Album of the Year wins at the Grammy Awards (4),[3] the most Video of the Year wins at the MTV Video Music Awards (4),[4] and the most times awarded the Global Recording Artist of the Year by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (4).[5] Swift was included in the Time 100 three times (2009, 2015, 2019), and she has registered 118 Guinness World Records as of December 2023.
Awards and nominations
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Swift started out as a country singer-songwriter; she released her self-titled debut studio album in 2006[6][7] and was nominated for Best New Artist at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in 2008. Her second studio album, Fearless (2008), is the most-awarded album in country music history.[8] It won Album of the Year and Best Country Album at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards[9] and won Album of the Year at both the Country Music Association Awards and the Academy of Country Music Awards.[10] The Fearless single "White Horse" won the Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance.[11] The single "Mean" from Swift's third studio album, Speak Now (2010), won the Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance.[12] "Safe & Sound", which Swift co-wrote and recorded for The Hunger Games soundtrack album (2011), won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.[13] Her fourth studio album, Red (2012), was her last promoted to country radio, and it received Album of the Year nominations at the Grammy and country-music awards.
1989 (2014), Swift's fifth studio album, was her self-proclaimed first official pop album, and it won the Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album.[14] At the 2016 BMI Pop Awards, Swift was honored with the Taylor Swift Award, becoming the second artist after Michael Jackson to have an award named after its recipient.[15] Her sixth studio album, Reputation (2017), was supported by the Reputation Stadium Tour, which was awarded Tour of the Year by the American Music Awards, IHeartRadio Music Awards, and People's Choice Awards. In 2019, Swift released her seventh studio album, Lover, and was honored as the Woman of the Decade by Billboard[16] and Artist of the Decade at the American Music Awards.[17] She became the first woman and fourth musician to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year three times with her eighth studio album, Folklore (2020), at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2021. At the Brit Awards 2021, Swift was honored as the Global Icon Award. Her ninth and tenth studio albums, Evermore (2020) and Midnights (2022), were both nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The latter album made Swift the first artist to win a record-breaking four Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, and it also won Best Pop Vocal Album in 2024.[18]
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Guinness World Records[edit]
As of December 2023, Swift has acquired 118 Guinness World Records.