List Of 36 Taylor Swift Facts:
#1 Swift is named after James Taylor, one of her parents’ favorite artists.
#2 She grew up in Pine Ridge Farm, a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania. Taylow stated that she helped her father manage the farm during her youth.
#3 In 2019, Swift released a Christmas song called Christmas Tree Farm, which is based on her childhood memories of Christmas.
#4 In November 2009, Taylor said on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon that her job on the farm was to collect praying-mantis egg pods.
“There are these bugs called praying mantises that lay eggs, and they form pods on the Douglas fir Christmas trees,” she said. “It’s their favorite tree to infest. Bet you didn’t know that! That’s where I would come in. I would walk around the Christmas trees all day and pick them off and put them in, like a little basket, so that people wouldn’t have bugs in their houses.”
#5 Her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, was an opera singer. Taylor dedicated her songs Timeless and Marjorie to her.
#6 At age 11, Swift performed the national anthem for a baseball game in Philadelphia.
Taylor Swift sighting on May 7, 2009 in London – @Getty
#7 She started learning the guitar at the age of 12.
#8 The first step on Swift’s music journey came in the form of a song called Lucky You, at age 12.
#9 To help her break into country music, her family relocated to Hendersonville, Tennessee.
#10 At 13, her parents hired music producer Steve Migliore to produce a demo CD for her.
Career
#11 In 2005, she inked a record deal with Big Machine Records.
Taylor Swift performs onstage during MTV’s Total Request Live on June 16, 2008 at the MTV Times Square Studios – @Getty
#12 With Big Machine, Taylor released her first six albums.
#13 “Tim McGraw” was released in 2006 as Swift’s first-ever single. She developed the idea for the song during a math class at school.
#14 Her self-titled debut album sold over 40,000 copies in its first week of release.
“I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion,” she once said. “To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.”
#15 She sang the anthem before 45,900 fans at Game 3 of the 2008 World Series.
#16 Swift won her first Grammy Award on January 31, 2010. It was for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for White Horse.
#17 Taylor is the first artist to win the Grammy for Album Of The Year four times.
Taylor Swift performs at 99.7 NOW! Presents POPTOPIA at SAP Center on December 2, 2017 in San Jose – @Getty
#18 She first topped the Billboard 200 in November 2008 with Fearless.
#19 In 2009, she became the youngest artist ever to win the CMA’s Entertainer of the Year award.
#20 In 2015, the singer persuaded Apple to pay artists for Apple Music trials.
“Three months is a long time to go unpaid, and it is unfair to ask anyone to work for nothing,” Taylor stated. “We don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.”
#21 In 2018, the pop superstar invited 2,000 foster and adopted kids to her Reputation tour dress rehearsal.
Taylor Swift attends the 2019 Time 100 Gala at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center – @Getty
#22 In 2025, Swift bought back the master recordings to her first six albums.
“All I’ve ever wanted was the opportunity to work hard enough to be able to one day purchase my music outright with no strings attached, no partnership, with full autonomy,” she wrote in a letter to his fans.
#23 She has landed at #1 on the US Billboard 200 with new albums for five consecutive years.
#24 In December 2023, she was named Time magazine’s 2023 Person of the Year.
Wealth
#25 Taylor Swift has a net worth of $1.6 billion.
#26 Swift became a billionaire in October 2023.
Taylor Swift at the Curb Event Center at Belmont University in Nashville 2006 – @Getty
#27 Her Eras tour smashed the touring revenue record with more than $2 billion in ticket sales.
“I want to thank every single one of you for being a part of the most thrilling chapter of my entire life to date – my beloved Eras Tour,” Swift said.
#28 The final stop was watched by over 60K fans in Vancouver’s BC Place stadium.
#29 The movie version of the tour broke grossed more than $261 million worldwide.
#30 Disney paid Taylor $75 million to stream The Eras Tour concert film.
Taylor Swift attends the 2010 CMT Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena – @Getty
#31 In 2015, Swift purchased for $25 million the Goldwyn Mansion in Beverly Hills.
#32 In 2013, she paid $17.75 million for a seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom beachfront property in Watch Hill, Rhode Island.
Love Life
#33 In August 2025, Swift became engaged to NFL star Travis Kelce.
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift embrace after defeating the San Francisco 49ers in overtime during Super Bowl LVIII – @Getty
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” she captioned on Instagram.
#34 Travis worked with Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry for Taylor’s engagement ring. The reported value of the ring has varied between $550,000 and $1 million.
#35 In September 2023, Swift attends her first Chiefs game.
“He’s fun and vibrant and has this infectious personality, makes me laugh so much,” Swift told Heart’s Jamie Theakston and Emma Bunton about Kelce. “He’s just never been nervous about anything in his entire life, so it’s pretty fun. He’s such a natural, just in life.
#36 She previously dated Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Hiddleston, and a few more.
Taylor Swift and Joe Jonas in the audience at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards at Paramount Pictures Studios – @Getty
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