In 2019, after creating a large empire with both musical genres, Scooter Braun sold the rights to her first six albums for $300 million, but the singer was not allowed to acquire them.
At just 32 years old, Taylor Swift has become one of the best-selling artists in the history of the music industry, recognized and multi-awarded by specialized media, she has gained a large number of fans and followers who have witnessed her creative evolutions. that she has had on her record portfolio, as well as the tough legal battles she has had to go through to be able to own her own songs.
On October 21, with the help of the Republic Records label, the singer released her most recent album: Midnights. Project that once again placed it in the global spotlight, after in the United States alone, it opened with more than 1.5 million units sold in one week, making it the best-selling album of 2022 so far, it also recorded the biggest week of sales of vinyl of the 21st century and as if that were not enough, marking his eleventh number one album on the Billboard 200, it generated having the top 10 positions occupied simultaneously within the Hot 100, the most important popularity count in the world.
Taylor Swift became the most sought-after and talked-about female figure on social networks and in the media. An artist of the pop genre who was born in country music. She herself has expressed in different interviews that she considers herself to be her best creation and on the internet a frequent question is to know what her step was like and her adaptation of different musical styles.
Taylor Alison Swift always maintained a life surrounded by great influences towards country music, a musical genre that emerged in the 1920s in the rural regions of the Southern United States and in the Maritimes of Canada and Australia. At the age of nine he began to become interested in musical theater, where he participated in various productions at the Berks Youth Theater Academy that allowed him to travel regularly to Broadway to receive singing and acting classes, which led him to end up admiring Shania Twain, as told in Taste of Country magazine.
It was not strange that his professional debut was with the Country music label, under a self-titled studio album, with which he began his story, which after 4 years of its release in 2010 had already sold 7 million copies in only United States, according to the RIAA -Recording Industry Association of America-, the association responsible for certifying record sales.
On November 11, 2008, Taylor Swift did not hesitate to continue achieving success and in her second studio album she repeated the formula, adding small touches of the most commercial genre of the time, which boosted her sales and recognition. Love Story, You Belong with Me or Today Was a Fairytale added 592,000 copies in the United States in its first week, something very big for the year and the genre, because in addition to pop, rap and the electronic scene strongly dominated the market. music.
The writer was also nominated for eight Grammy Awards, making her the second artist with the most nominations, only behind Beyoncé's ten. Of them she won four, in the categories: best female country performance and best country song for White Horse and for said musical work she won in the categories best country album and album of the year, being the second youngest singer to win a Grammy for the age 20 years.
The last country album and the arrival of 1989
Red marked the end of an era, because even though the rap scene was beginning to dominate in the United States, and reggaeton in the Hispanic market, pop seemed to be a genre in which global doors could easily open. Therefore, the arrival of her first pop album confirmed what her fans and specialized media such as Rolling Stone magazine, The Source and more had already expressed: Taylor could stand up to the big stars who dominated, such as Lady Gaga, Katy Perry or Rihanna.
This is how Reputation arrived in 2017, its darkest era after a severe smear campaign by celebrities such as socialite Kim Kardashian and her then-husband, rapper Kayne West. But more pop than ever, Look What You Made Me Do continued to gain stars in the LGBT+ community.
In 2019 the light arrived; Lover became the most colorful and poppy album of her entire career, since elements taken to the extreme were the protagonists of her music videos, where the color pink, pastel blue and a lot of glitter did not stop stealing the attention of the audience. fans of her. What no one expected was that said album was also the beginning of her worst nightmare.
