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🏟️ | In the days leading up to the start of #TSTheErasTour, the Taylor Swift Museum has comprised infographics of Taylor's biggest touring achievements to date.

– Today we present you the first one! Remember the reputation Stadium Tour below:

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🏆 | As a storyteller, Taylor Swift has always been involved in the making of her videography by creating and directing music videos & other projects.

— Take a look at the accolades she has racked in recent years for her self-directed projects.

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🏆 | Taylor Swift is now a 14-time #VMAs winner

— She is also the first act in HISTORY to win Video of the Year three times with “Bad Blood,” “You Need To Calm Down,” and “All Too Well: The Short Film.”

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🏆 | Taylor Swift will be recognized by the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) as the “Songwriter/Artist of the Decade (2010-2019)” in their annual awards celebration, slated on Sept 20 at the Ryman Auditorium.

— Swift is the first-ever female recipient!

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🧵 | Two years of “folklore”: how Taylor Swift's album solidified her status as a prolific songwriter, and how its release impacted the music scene, a thread

Announced as a surprise on July 23, 2020, Taylor Swift's eighth studio album, "folklore", marked the singer's first collaboration project with Aaron Dessner, a member of The National.

The partnership guided the sound of the project, which in addition to country and pop elements, has a dominance of alternative, the album’s attributed genre.

“folklore” is enriched by expanding its focus beyond Swift's personal stories, tackling imagined characters and fictional stories – a ghost, a teenage love triangle, Rebekah Harkness, an exiled man, her veteran grandfather, and healthcare workers during the pandemic.

The album's release sparked a surge in the search for the word “folklore” on the internet, prompting the American Folklore Society to launch an educational campaign on folkloric studies.

In the album’s first 24 hours, it broke the record for most played female album in its first day on Spotify (80.6 million streams).

“cardigan" soared to #1 on the Global Spotify chart with 7,742 million plays, setting the record for biggest first-day streams for a song by a female artist in 2020

“folklore” debuted with 846,000 units, consisting of 615,000 pure sales and 289.85 million streams in the US

Within a week, the project had already sold over 2 million copies around the world and later became the best-selling album of 2020 in the United States.

The project also became the album with the most weeks to top the Billboard 200 in 2020 (8)

All of the album’s 16 tracks debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, including 3 top 10 entries and 5 in the top 20; with “cardigan”, the lead single, debuting at #1.

Swift became the first artist in Billboard history to debut atop Hot 100 and Billboard 200 in the same week.

“folklore” reached #1 in 17 countries, including Australia, Ireland, and the UK.

The project has been described by critics as the record that defined 2020; Rolling Stone said that the album will “go down in history as the definitive quarantine album.”

— Billboard crowned the album's release as one of the defining musical moments of the early 2020s.

In addition to being highly acclaimed, the album was extremely well received at award ceremonies, earning the biggest award in the music industry, the Grammy for Album of the Year.

— Swift also earned her first-ever Danish Music Award, and collected another Japan Gold Disc Award

The album served as inspiration for several artists in the music industry, such as Hayley Williams, Christina Perri, and Rina Sawayama;

The Week called it "the first great pandemic art" for setting "a high bar" for future pandemic-inspired projects.

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🔙 | One year ago, Taylor Swift received the Global Icon Award at the BRITs.

— Swift joined Elton John, David Bowie, and Robbie Williams as the only recipients in the history of the category. She also became the first female & foreign artist feted, and the youngest act overall.

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🏆 | Taylor Swift's history at the CMT Awards!

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Through her music and more, Taylor Swift has had record-breaking earnings throughout the years. According to Forbes and Rolling Stone, she has already accumulated over 100 million dollars in the 2020s decade alone.

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Over the years, only three acts managed to top IFPI's Global Recording Artist chart twice.

1. Taylor Swift (2014 & 2019)

2. Drake (2016 & 2018)

3. BTS (2020 & 2021)

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🏆 | Taylor Swift ranks at #2 on IFPI's Global Recording Artist chart for the second year in a row.

— Swift also earns her third consecutive year as the top soloist.

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2021 was a huge year for Taylor Swift, so our team put together an infographic highlighting her main achievements this year – check out The Swift Recap below. The Taylor Swift Museum wishes you all a Happy New Year!

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All Too Well (10 Minute Version) currently ranks among the most acclaimed songs of 2021, being named the best by Insider and the top female tune by Rolling Stone & TIME.

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One year ago, Taylor Swift released her 9th studio album, ‘evermore’.

Known as folklore’s younger sister, the LP was met with widespread critical acclaim, became the first album to sell over 100k vinyl copies in a week, and is currently up for Album of the Year at the Grammys.

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With the vinyl record sales surge amid the pandemic, Red (Taylor's Version) shattered the US record for the largest vinyl sales week since MRC Data began tracking sales in 1991 with 114k sold, surpassing the last record that was also set by Swift with "evermore" and Adele's "30".

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Among Taylor Swift’s highest honors in 2021 are three of the biggest awards in the music industry and one of the most prestigious songwriting achievements.

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Taylor Swift has racked 57 awards so far in 2021, making her the most awarded female musician of the year.

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Widely regarded as Taylor Swift's magnum opus, “RED” marked the start of her transition to pop music whilist remained as one of the most influential albums of the 2010s. It was recently re-relased as Red Taylor’s Version , following Swift's battle to own her music.