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Taylor Swift is one of the current generation's most celebrated pop stars with 14 Grammy wins and 52 nominations. The 34-year-old singer broke the internet at the 66th Grammy Awards when she won her fourth Album of the Year for her tenth studio album Midnights. She also announced the release of her new album The Tortured Poets Department, which was released on April 19, 2024.
She won her first Grammy for her second album Fearless at the age of 20 in 2010. Since then she has been a regular at the Grammys almost every year.
This article will take a look at some of the singer's biggest Grammy wins over the course of her musical career.
All Grammy wins and nominations in Taylor Swift's career
Here is a table containing all 14 Grammy wins and 52 nominations in Taylor Swift's career:
Taylor Swift won her first Grammy in 2010
Taylor Swift got her first nomination in 2008 for Best New Artist but didn't win the award that year. She won her first Grammy in 2010 for Best Country Song for White Horse, which was a part of her second studio album Fearless.
However, that wasn't the only award she won that year. Taylor Swift also won the Best Country Album and Album of the Year for Fearless. She also got the Best Female Country Vocal Performance Award for White Horse.
Swift, who was 20 at the time, became the youngest person in history to have won Album of the Year.
Taylor Swift also won two Grammy wins for Mean in 2012
Following the release of her third album Speak Now, Taylor Swift was nominated for three Grammys and won two of them at the 2012 Grammy Awards. The pop star was nominated for Best Country Album for Speak Now, and her song Mean was nominated for Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song. Of these, Taylor won the latter two awards for the song.
Taylor Swift won a Grammy in 2013 for writing Safe & Sound
In 2013, Taylor won her first Grammy in the Best Written Song for Visual Media category for composing Safe & Sound for The Hunger Games soundtrack. The same musical piece was nominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance but Taylor didn't win the award.
The singer also received a Record of the Year nomination for her song We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.
2014 and 2015 had seven nominations but no win for Taylor Swift
Between 2014 and 2015, Taylor received a total of seven nominations at the Grammys but failed to secure any wins.
At the 2014 Grammys, the singer was nominated for Album of the Year and Best Country Album for her fourth album, Red. Her songs Begin Again and Highways Don't Care were also nominated for Best Country Song and Best Country Duo/Group Performance, respectively.
At the 2015 Grammys, her song Shake It Off, from the album 1989 was nominated for the Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Solo Performance.
With 7 nominations and 3 wins, Taylor Swift made history at the 2016 Grammys
In 2016, the Grammy drought from 2014 and 2015 was compensated for when Taylor was nominated seven times and won three Grammys for her fifth studio album, 1989.
She won Best Music Video for Bad Blood (feat. Kendrick Lamar) and also received Grammys for Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year for 1989. With the latter award, Taylor made history by becoming the first-ever woman to win Album of the Year twice for her solo albums.
In her acceptance speech, the singer talked about various obstacles on the path to success and motivated young women to stay focused on their goals.
"There are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame. But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you're going, you will know it was you and the people who love you who put you there, and that will be the greatest feeling in the world," Swift said.
Taylor Swift broke her own record at the 2021 Grammys
Taylor Swift was nominated six more times at the Grammys between 2018 and 2020. The nominations were for her songs Better Man, I Don't Wanna Live Forever, Lover, and You Need to Calm Down. However, she didn't win any of them.
At the 2021 Grammys, Taylor broke her own record by winning Album of the Year for her eighth studio album, Folklore. She became the first and the only woman to have won Album of the Year as a solo artist thrice.
The singer tied places with juggernauts like Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra and Paul Simon for the most Album of the Year wins in the history of the Grammys.
Taylor Swift made history at the 2023 Grammys
At the 2022 Grammys, Taylor Swift received yet another Album of the Year nomination for her ninth studio album, Evermore. However, she didn't take home any awards that year.
The win came at the 2023 Grammys when Taylor received four nominations and one win for Best Music Video for her short film All Too Well. The 14-time Grammy winner made history by becoming the first artist to win in that category while being the only director of her own music video.
Record fourth Album of the Year win for Taylor at the 2024 Grammys
Taylor Swift's tenth studio album, Midnights, received six Grammy nominations in 2024. Out of them, she won Best Pop Vocal and coveted fourth Album of the Year.
With her fourth Album of the Year win, Taylor became the only artist in Grammy history to have won the award four times. In her acceptance speech, the record-breaking artist commented that the award was a manifestation of her work and expressed her gratitude to the people who voted for her.
"All I want to do is keep being able to do this. I love it so much. It makes me so happy. It makes me unbelievably blown away that it makes some people happy who voted for this award too. All I want to do is keep doing this. So thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to do what I love so much."
Taylor's 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, was released on April 19, 2024. She also gave fans a surprise with 15 additional songs as a part of the album, which had them going gaga over the 31 songs.
Now fans are left wondering if Taylor Swift will win her record fifth Album of the Year at the 2025 Grammys.
