Taylor

Taylor Swift, the rarest pop star, is one who managed to move between the genres of country and mainstream pop culture, becoming an icon of the pop culture. The singer also swept every continent during the course of her journey. Swift left her heritage in the country genre like a second skin and proved she had the finest pop sensibility of the time. Swift was the only musician/singer to take the popular zeitgeist out on the road. The skills she displayed could be seen in her first tracks, including the neodue Tim McGraw. But on her sophomore album Fearless released in 2008 Swift was able to discover who she is and find an audience that was large. Fearless ended up being hugely popular not only in the US with its Top Ten singles Love Story and Belong with Me helped it to achieve six platinum records but also around the world. The album was particularly successful throughout Canada Australia as well as the U.K. Speak Now delivered almost two years later consolidated that popularity and pushed Swift towards the top of stardom. Swift's popularity grew through her subsequent three albums: Red (2012), 1989 (2014) and Reputation (2017). Swift was now firmly established within an industry she felt was hers to be. When she reduced her sound to the stripped-down versions of 2020, Folklore, and Evermore, she still remained at the top. This position was maintained through re-recordings of her previous catalog, as along with Midnights, her synth-heavy chart-topping 2022 album.