Taylor

Taylor Swift, the rarest pop phenomenon is a star who has managed to cross from the country genre to mainstream pop culture and become an idol of the pop world. Swift also took on all over the world through her music. Swift removed her roots in the country like they were a second skin, revealing she was possibly the most savvy populist singer/songwriter of her generation someone who was able to harness the current zeitgeist and make it personal and just as impressively perform in the opposite direction. The skills she displayed are evident in some of her first tracks, including the neodue Tim McGraw. But on her second album Fearless that came out in 2008, she was able to discover who she is and find an audience that was large. The album was able to have significant reach not just in the U.S. where it racked the record with six platinum singles, thanks to Top Ten hits Love Story and You Belong with Me but throughout the world performing particularly well with the U.K. Canada and Australia. Swift could build on her progress with Speak Now almost two year later. The singer's popularity increased through the three albums that followed - Red (2012) 1989 (2014) and Reputation (2017). Swift was now firmly established within a genre where she belonged. However, even when she reduced her strategy with 2020's stripped down sister album folklore, and Evermore she remained atop the charts, a place that she maintained through re-recordings from her back catalog along with Midnights her chart-topping synth-heavy 2022 collection.