Taylor

Taylor Swift, the rarest pop phenomenon is a star who managed to move over from country music to mainstream culture, and has become an icon of the world of pop. The singer also swept every continent through her music. Swift shed her roots in country music like a second-skin and showed she had the finest pop sensibility of the time. Swift was the only singer/songwriter who knew how to be a part of the trending zeitgeist and take it on the road. The evidence was clear from her first songs, especially in her neo tribute to Tim McGraw. On her album Fearless (2008), Swift showed a songwriter getting to know herself. Fearless became a worldwide hit but not only in the United States (where it earned six times platinum for the Top Ten Hits Love Story as well as "You Belong with Me") but in Canada, Australia and the U.K. and other countries. Swift could build on her progress through Speak Now almost two year later. The singer's popularity increased throughout the three albums that followed - Red (2012) 1989 (2014) and Reputation (2017). Swift became a household name within the genre she was a part of. In the end, when she refocused her music with the stripped-down releases of 2020, folklore, and Evermore, she still remained in the top spot. The position was defended with the re-recordings she had made from her earlier catalog, as along with Midnights, her synth-heavy chart-topping 2022 album.