In 2008, a teenage Taylor Swift had yet to win a Grammy when she told an interviewer, “The Grammys are the biggest thing. The Grammys are what you want, they’re what you hope for, they’re what you dream about when you’re a little kid.”
Little did she know that she would go on to become the biggest star in the world, sell millions of albums, fill stadiums around the world, and nab a record four Album of the Year trophies at the Grammy Awards.
Over the years, Swift has been a part of some of the Grammys’ most memorable live performances, acceptance speeches, and even award presentations (she was the presenter who announced that Beyonce had won Best Country Album.)
As of 2026, Swift has won 14 career Grammys from 58 total nominations. That ranks her among the most-nominated artists in history. She would likely have more if the Grammys had a Best Pop Song category for songwriters, but sadly, they do not.
Let’s run down Taylor’s entire Grammy history to date, from her emergence as a teen country star in 2006 to the present day.
Taylor Swift Grammy History Year By Year
2008
Wins/Nominations: 0/1
Nominations: Best New Artist
Wins: None
Attended Ceremony?: Yes
Award Presented: Presented Best Rap/Sung Collaboration to Rihanna and Jay-Z for “Umbrella”
Swift released her self-titled debut album at age in October 2006. She just missed the eligibility cutoff for the 2007 Grammys, so her first album was eligible at the 2008 Grammys instead.
By that time, Swift has already scored three Top 40 hits on country radio and the Billboard Hot 100: “Tim McGraw,” “Teardrops On My Guitar,” and “Our Song.”
She was actually invited to appear as a presenter on the 2008 nominations announcement press conference, in December 2007. There, Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters read Swift’s name as a Best New Artist nominee, and she could not contain her excitement, as she stepped up to hug Grohl, bandmate Taylor Hawkins, and George Lopez, drawing happy laughter from the assembled media as she celebrated her first-ever nomination.
She attended the annual Clive Davis pre-Grammy party, then went on Ellen and discussed how starstruck she was sitting near David Spade, Pete Wentz, and Jimmy Kimmel. She sounded just like the excited teenager she was.
When the 2008 Grammys rolled around, Swift made the most of the experience, walking the red carpet and doing multiple interviews. She told CBS, “I’m not going to prom this year. I decided to go to the Grammys instead.”
At the ceremony, Swift was up for Best New Artist against Amy Winehouse, Feist, Paramore, and Ledisi (that’s a pretty strong group!) Winehouse swept most of the big awards, and she won this one as well, so Taylor went home emptyhanded.
But she did get to present an award on the broadcast. She had the privilege of announcing Rihanna’s first Grammy win, as RiRi and Jay-Z captured Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “Umbrella.”
2009
Wins/Nominations: 0/0
Nominations: None
Attended Ceremony?: Yes
Performance: “Fifteen” with Miley Cyrus
Award Presented: Presented Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss for “Rich Woman”
Swift didn’t release a new album in 2008, but she was eligible to be nominated for “Love Story,” the lead single from her soon-to-be-released second album.
“Love Story” would go on to become a smash crossover pop-country hit, but it was released just two weeks before the end of the eligibility period, and hadn’t yet hit its peak when voting for the nominations took place. Perhaps for that reason, “Love Story” did not earn a Grammy nomination.
In December 2008, for the first time, the Grammys decided to turn their nominations announcement into a prime time special. Swift had the honor of co-hosting, alongside LL Cool J.
As the night went on and the 2009 nominations were revealed, it became clear that Swift would be shut out of nominations for the Grammys that year.
Still, she got to perform on the nominations announcement special, singing a medley of Brenda Lee’s “I’m Sorry” and Swift’s own “White Horse.” It wasn’t Swift’s best vocal performance, but at least it gave her plenty of tv time in front of Grammy voters, which may have helped her in subsequent years.
Despite not being nominated at the 2009 Grammys, Swift attended the ceremony and got to perform her new song “Fifteen” with fellow teenager Miley Cyrus.
It was a stripped-down performance, with the singers on stools in the middle of the arena and Swift’s guitar providing the only instrumentation.
Following the performance, the pair presented the Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals (a now-defunct award) to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss for “Rich Woman.”
2010
Wins/Nominations: 4/8
Nominations: Album of the Year (Fearless), Record of the Year (“You Belong With Me”), Song of the Year (“You Belong With Me” with Liz Rose), Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (“You Belong With Me”), Best Country Album (Fearless), Best Country Song (“White Horse” with Liz Rose), Best Female Country Vocal Performance (“White Horse”), Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals (“Breathe” with Colbie Caillat)
Wins: Album of the Year (Fearless), Best Country Album (Fearless), Best Country Song (“White Horse” with Liz Rose), Best Female Country Vocal Performance (“White Horse”)
Attended Ceremony?: Yes
Performance: “Today Was a Fairytale,” “Rhiannon” with Stevie Nicks, “You Belong With Me” with Stevie Nicks
The 2010 Grammys are where Taylor Swift emerged as a dominant Grammy force. She earned 8 nominations, second-most behind Beyonce’s 10.
Swift said, “The Grammy nominations… getting that phone call and seeing that on tv when they announced that, it was one of those things that I’m never gonna forget.”
Several of Swift’s nominations came during the untelevised pre-show in the afternoon. Many big stars skip the pre-show, but since Swift had never won a Grammy before, she eagerly showed up, hoping to win something.
It didn’t take long before Colbie Caillat announced that “White Horse” had won Best Female Country Vocal Performance, beating Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, and Lee Ann Womack. Swift gave her “I’m shocked!” face that we would come to see many times over the years.
“This is my first Grammy, you guys!,” she exclaimed, before thanking her producer Nathan Chapman and everyone who voted for her.
Swift would win a second award on the pre-telecast, capturing Best Country Song for “White Horse,” with her co-writer, Liz Rose.
On the main broadcast, Swift was awarded Best Country Album, allowing her to make a speech on the Grammy broadcast for the first time.
She said, “I just keep thinking back to when you’re in second grade and you sing at your talent show for the first time, and people joke, ‘Maybe we’ll see you at the Grammys someday,’ but that seems like an impossible dream. I just feel like I’m standing here accepting an impossible dream right now.”
Later came the big award, when she beat out everyone to win Album of the Year, becoming the youngest winner of that award at age 20. (Billie Eilish would later break that record at age 18.)
“All of us, when we are 80 years old, and we are telling the same stories over and over again to our grandkids, and they’re so annoyed with us — this is the story we’re gonna be telling over and over again, in 2010, that we got to win Album Of The Year at the Grammys.”
Swift also gave a memorable performance. This was during the era when the Grammys were allowing performers to have up to 6 minutes for their performances, giving them more time to include a medley of hits instead of just one song.
Swift used that time to sing “Today Was a Fairytale,” then brought out Stevie Nicks to sing the Fleetwood Mac classic “Rhiannon.” They finished with a rollicking, banjo-heavy version of “You Belong With Me,” joined by singer-songwriter Butch Walker.
In the Time 100 issue, Nicks wrote about Swift, “This girl writes the songs that make the whole world sing, like Neil Diamond or Elton John… Taylor is writing for the universal woman and for the man who wants to know her. The female rock-‘n’-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it’s women like her who are going to save the music business.”
While Swift was celebrated for her victories, she also received some valid criticism for sounding out of tune during her duet with Nicks. Taylor admitted that she was off-key, telling Rolling Stone, “I had a bad night. It’s one of those things where you’ve rehearsed over and over and when the camera turns on, the nerves kick in and you just can’t think straight.”
That criticism would help Swift triumph again in 2012…
2011
Wins/Nominations: 0/0
Nominations: None
Attended Ceremony?: No
This was one of the rare years where Taylor wasn’t nominated for a Grammy. The only single she would have been eligible for was “Today Was a Fairytale,” which was released in January 2010 on the Valentine’s Day soundtrack.
2012
Wins/Nominations: 2/3
Nominations: Best Country Album (Speak Now), Best Country Song (“Mean”), Best Country Solo Performance (“Mean”)
Wins: Best Country Song (“Mean”), Best Country Solo Performance (“Mean”)
Attended Ceremony?: Yes
Performance: “Mean”
In 2012, Swift was nominated for Best Country Album for Speak Now, which she wrote entirely on her own, without co-writers. Two other nominations came for “Mean,” a song she wrote in the aftermath of her 2010 Grammy performance with Stevie Nicks.
While many called out Swift for being off-key during that performance, one critic, Bob Lefsetz, was especially cruel, writing, “In one fell swoop, Taylor Swift consigned herself to the dustbin of teen phenoms. Taylor’s too young and dumb to understand the mistake she made. And those surrounding her are addicted to cash and are afraid to tell her no. But last night Taylor Swift SHOULD have auto-tuned. To save her career.”
That scathing review inspired Swift to write “Mean,” which got nominated and won twice. Both awards were presented during the pre-telecast, and Swift was there to accept. She said, “There’s really no feeling quite like writing a song about someone who’s really mean to you and someone who completely hates you, and makes your life miserable, and then winning a Grammy for it.”
The best part of Swift’s night of revenge was getting to perform “Mean.” On a large set that carrried a Hee-Haw vibe, Tay played the banjo and changed the lyric slightly for the occasion, singing, “Someday I’ll be singing this at the Grammys / And all you’re ever gonna be is mean.”
The Grammy audience was clearly on her side, giving her a standing ovation after the song.
2013
Wins/Nominations: 1/3
Nominations: Record of the Year (“We Are Never Getting Back Together”), Best Country Duo/Group Performance (“Safe & Sound” with the Civil Wars), Best Song Written for Visual Media (“Safe & Sound” with the Civil Wars)
Wins: Best Song Written for Visual Media (“Safe & Sound” with the Civil Wars)
Attended Ceremony?: Yes
Performance: “We Are Never Getting Back Together”
In December 2012, Swift once again co-hosted the 2013 Grammy nominations announcement show with LL Cool J. That’s where she learned that she was up for four awards, including Record of the Year.
Duting the pre-telecast, Swift won another Grammy, as her gorgeous collab “Safe & Sound” with the Civil Wars won Best Song Written for Visual Media. The track from The Hunger Games was awarded to songwriters Swift, John Paul White, Joy Williams, and T Bone Burnett.
White joked, “I think it’s appropriate that Taylor thanks us, because we’ve been carrying her for a while, and it’s getting a little tiring.”
Swift was given the honor of kicking off the 2013 Grammy broadcast with “We Are Never Getting Back Together.” She told an interviewer, “We’re opening the show, so what that essentially means is you get to perform, and you get to watch the show stress-free.”
She commanded the stage, strutting around with a confidence that we hadn’t seen before, and delivered a memorable performance featuring a circus carnival theme.
She lost Record of the Year to Gotye’s quirky rock song “Somebody That I Used to Know.”
During the show, Swift was repeatedly shown dancing in the audience, something would become somewhat of a cliche over the years.
2014
Wins/Nominations: 0/4
Nominations: Album of the Year (Red), Best Country Album (Red), Best Country Song (“Begin Again”), Best Country Duo/Group Performance (“Highway Don’t Care” with Tim McGraw & Keith Urban)
Wins: None
Attended Ceremony?: Yes
Performance: “All Too Well”
Swift had four nods in 2014 but was shut out. Best Country Album was presented live on the Grammy broadcast, but Red lost to Kacey Musgraves’ brilliant debut album Same Trailer Different Park.
Red may have lost some votes from folks who no longer viewed Swift as a “country” artist. It’s true that by this time, most of the songs on her albums were pop music.
Album of the Year was a moment where Taylor famously thought she had it won for a moment. She and her team got briefly faked out when they heard Alicia Keys start to read the winner, since it started with an R, but Keys announced Random Access Memories by Daft Punk, rather than Red.
The highlight for Swift tonight was getting to perform “All Too Well,” one of the most powerful and enduring songs in her catalog. It was an emotional performance, as Swift began quietly on piano, before the song eventually built to an explosion at its peak.
Anyone who still hadn’t been convinced that Swift was a great songwriter had to be won over by the story of “All Too Well.”
2015
Wins/Nominations: 0/3
Nominations: Record of the Year (“Shake it Off”), Song of the Year (“Shake it Off” with Max Martin & Shellback), Best Pop Solo Performance (“Shake it Off”)
Wins: None
Attended Ceremony?: Yes
Award Presented: Presented Best New Artist to Sam Smith
Swift’s first entirely pop album, 1989, came out after the deadline for the 2015 Grammys, so it wasn’t eligible until 2016. That meant that in 2015, Swift’s only eligible track for the Grammys was its first single, “Shake it Off,” which managed to snag three nominations.
She lost both Record of the Year and Song of the Year to Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me,” and lost Best Pop Solo Performance to Pharrell’s “Happy.”
Taylor attended the 2015 Grammys but decided not to perform. Instead, she presented Best New Artist, which also went to Sam Smith.
She was also spotted in the audience taking photos with Jay-Z and Kanye West. This was during the time when Swift and Kanye had reconciled after his VMA stage-crashing incident, and before their feud reignited in 2016.
2016
Wins/Nominations: 3/7
Nominations: Album of the Year (1989), Record of the Year (“Blank Space”), Song of the Year (“Blank Space” with Max Martin & Shellback), Best Pop Vocal Album (1989), Best Pop Solo Performance (“Blank Space”), Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (“Bad Blood” with Kendrick Lamar), Best Music Video (“Bad Blood” with Kendrick Lamar)
Wins: Album of the Year (1989), Best Pop Vocal Album (1989), Best Music Video (“Bad Blood” with Kendrick Lamar)
Attended Ceremony?: Yes
Performance: “Out of the Woods”
The 2016 show saw Swift collecting 7 nominations, second-most behind Kendrick Lamar’s 11. She ultimately won three Grammys, including a second Album of the Year crown.
Taylor won two of her three Grammys during the untelevised pre-show. When she won Best Pop Vocal Album, producer Jack Antonoff took the stage to give a speech, and he called Swift on his cell. She asked, “Is James Taylor there? Can somebody who knows James Taylor tell him I love him?”
Swift kicked off the Grammy broadcast with a performance of “Out of the Woods,” an Antonoff-produced track from 1989. She walked through the crowd and over to a secondary stage to finish off the performance.
Finally, at the end of the night, 1989 was rewarded with Album of the Year. “I wanna thank the fans for the last 10 years,” she said in her speech.
She also spoke to the young women watching, giving advice that many believe was a swipe at Kanye, with whom she was again feuding: “There are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame. But if you just focus on the work, and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you’re going, you’ll look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world.”
2017
Wins/Nominations: 0/0
Nominations: None
Attended Ceremony?: No
Another rare off-year for Taylor. She didn’t release a new album in 2016, and instead kept touring and issuing singles from 1989. She was not eligible for anything at the 2017 Grammys, except perhaps for Best Music Video for “Out of the Woods” and “New Romantics,” but they did not earn any nominations.
2018
Wins/Nominations: 0/2
Nominations: Best Country Song (“Better Man”), Best Song Written for Visual Media (“I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” with Jack Antonoff and Sam Dew)
Wins: None
Attended Ceremony?: No
In 2018, the lead single from Reputation, “Look What You Made Me Do,” was eligible for several Grammy categories, but failed to secure any nominations.
Swift’s only noms that year were for her Zayn Malik collab “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever,” and for writing the track “Better Man” for Little Big Town. She did not win, and did not attend the Grammys that year.
2019
Wins/Nominations: 0/1
Nominations: Best Pop Vocal Album (Reputation)
Wins: None
Attended Ceremony?: No
As seen in the documentary Miss Americana, Taylor was distraught that she was shut out of the major categories for the 2019 Grammys. It was almost depressing to see such an accomplished star tying so much of her self-worth to her number of Grammy nominations. “I just need to make a better record,” she said resignedly.
Swift was only up for a single award, for Best Pop Vocal Album for Reputation. It lost to Ariana Grande’s Sweetener.
She did not attend the Grammys, as she was in London filming Cats.
2020
Wins/Nominations: 0/3
Nominations: Song of the Year (“Lover”), Best Pop Vocal Album (Lover), Best Pop Solo Performance (“You Need to Calm Down”)
Wins: None
Attended Ceremony?: No
Swift’s Lover album was her best work in years, and it was rewarded with three Grammy nods, including Song of the Year for the title track.
Swift posted an Instagram story when she heard about the nominations. She wrote, “Lover is nominated for Song of the Year at the Grammys! Wrote this one alone in a quiet moment and seeing it honored in the Song of the Year category by my peers means so much, wow.”
“Lover” lost Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album to Billie Eilish, and lost Best Pop Solo Performance to Lizzo.
Swift did not attend the show, though Variety reported she had been in secret talks to perform, before bowing out at the last minute. It was rumored that she was considering singing her popular album track “The Man.”
2021
Wins/Nominations: 1/6
Nominations: Album of the Year (Folklore), Song of the Year (“Cardigan” with Aaron Dessner), Best Pop Vocal Album (Folklore), Best Pop Solo Performance (“Cardigan”), Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (“Exile” with Bon Iver), Best Song Written for Visual Media (“Beautiful Ghosts”)
Wins: Album of the Year (Folklore)
Attended Ceremony?: Yes
Performance: “Cardigan” / “August” / “Willow”
The 2021 Grammy Awards were a comeback of sorts for Swift at the Grammys. Her quarantine-inspired album Folklore, a folky, mostly acoustic record made with Jack Antonoff and The National’s Aaron Dessner, earned Swift some of the best critical praise of her career and garnered five nominations, with a sixth coming for “Beautiful Ghosts” from the Cats movie.
Swift performed on the show for the first time since 2016, and she put together a medley of songs from Folklore and Evermore (which had been released later in the year but wouldn’t be Grammy-eligible until 2022.)
This was probably Swift’s best Grammy performance to date. She created a scene of a cabin deep in the woods, and her vocals were outstanding as she ran through “Cardigan,” “August,” and “Willow” with Antonoff and Dessner.
This was only the second time Swift had been in a room together with both Dessner and Antonoff, since most of their work on the album had been done remotely.
Held during the covid era, the 2021 Grammys were a different experience, as the artists sat at socially distanced tables wearing masks. It was also unusual because no one artists dominated. Major awards were split among many different acts, including Billie Eilish, beyonce, Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande, and Harry Styles.
When Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia beat Folklore for Best Pop Vocal Album, it looked as though Swift would go home emptyhanded. Swifties were freaking out in real time on social media, expressing their disgust and calling for a boycott of the Grammys.
And then came the final award of the night.
Swift was genuinely shocked as her name was called and Folklore took the Grammy. “Mostly, we just wanna thank the fans,” she said. “You guys met us in this imaginary world that we created, and we can’t tell you how honored we are forever by this.”
The win made Swift the first woman ever to win Album of the Year three times, joining three-time winners Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon, and Stevie Wonder.
She gushed about the “marvelous time” later on Twitter:
a marvelous time 🥲 pic.twitter.com/V6e3NHVFml
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) March 17, 2021
2022
Wins/Nominations: 0/1
Nominations: Album of the Year (Evermore)
Wins: None
Attended Ceremony?: No
In 2022, the Grammys expanded the major categories from 8 to a whopping 10 nominees. Swift received a single nod, with Evermore nominated for Album of the Year.
However, this nomination came with some controversy. Thanks to some excellent reporting by the New York Times, it was learned that the Recording Academy only decided to expand the major categories from 8 to 10 nominees one day before the nominees were revealed.
Further, the NYT learned that Swift (and fellow nominee Kanye West) were the two Album of the Year nominees who were not among the original eight. Those two finished #9 and #10 in the original voting, and they benefited when the category was expanded.
This led to a lot of conspiracy theories: Did the Recording Academy expand the number of nominees at the last minute, specifically so that Taylor could receive an Album of the Year nod, and save the Academy from the embarrassment of not nominating her at all?
Initially, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said he was unaware which artists would benefit from the change. But later, he revealed to Billboard that he knew exactly which artists would be added in the 9th and 10th slots in each category when the vote to expand took place.
In any case, Swift was not considered a serious contender to win in 2022, and did not attend the ceremony. Jon Batiste’s We Are pulled off an upset to win Album of the Year.
Taylor did post a lovely clip of herself and Dessner singing “Champagne Problems” after hearing about the nomination. She added, “SO stoked evermore has been honored like this. Congrats to all our fellow nominees!!”
2023
Wins/Nominations: 1/4
Nominations: Song of the Year (“All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” with Liz Rose), Best Country Song (“I Bet You Think About Me” with Lori McKenna), Best Music Video (“All Too Well (10 Minute Version)”), Best Song Written for Visual Media (“Carolina”)
Wins: Best Music Video (“All Too Well (10 Minute Version)”)
Attended Ceremony?: Yes
Swift didn’t have a full album eligible for the 2023 Grammys, but she still managed to pick up four nominations. That’s because her re-recorded album Red (Taylor’s Version). had a few new tracks that were Grammy-eligible.
Most notably, the 10-minute version of “All Too Well” scored nominations for Song of the Year and Best Music Video. Taylor had performed the original version on the Grammys in 2014, but the new, longer rendition was remarkable in its ability to tell a story and take the listener through waves of emotions.
Swift would win the Grammy for Best Music Video. It was presented on the non-televised pre-show. Swift wasn’t at the pre-show, but her producer Saul Germaine was there to give an acceptance speech.
She was also nominated with Lori McKenna for Best Country Song for writing “I Bet You Think About Me,” which she recorded with Chris Stapleton.
Swift decided to attend the show this year. For the first time, she was not either a performer or an award presenter. She chose to walk the red carpet and simply watch the show from the audience.
2024
Wins/Nominations: 2/6
Nominations: Album of the Year (Midnights), Record of the Year (“Anti-Hero”), Song of the Year (“Anti-Hero” with Jack Antonoff), Best Pop Vocal Album (Midnights), Best Pop Solo Performance (“Anti-Hero”), Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (“Karma” with Ice Spice)
Wins: Album of the Year (Midnights), Best Pop Vocal Album (Midnights)
Attended Ceremony?: Yes
Taylor got six noms for Midnights in 2024 and again decided to attend the ceremony without performing or presenting. She got to win two awards on the broadcast. First came Best Pop Vocal Album, presented by Bono.
This marked only the second time she had taken that award. In her speech, she memorably surprised fans by announcing her upcoming album The Tortured Poets Department.
Despite losing Record of the Year to Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” and Song of the Year to Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?,” Swift later made history by capturing Album of the Year for the fourth time, becoming the first person ever to do that.
Swift said, “I would love to tell you that this is the best moment of my life, but I feel this happy when I finish a song, or when I crack to code to a bridge I love, or when I’m shot listing a music video, or when I’m rehearsing with my dancers or my band, or getting ready to go to Tokyo to play a show. For me the award is the work.”
2025
Wins/Nominations: 0/6
Nominations: Album of the Year (The Tortured Poets Department), Record of the Year (“Fortnight” with Post Malone), Song of the Year (“Fortnight” with Post Malone and Jack Antonoff), Best Pop Vocal Album (The Tortured Poets Department), Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (“Us” with Gracie Abrams), Best Music Video (“Fortnight” with Post Malone)
Wins: None
Attended Ceremony?: Yes
Award Presented: Presented Best Country Album to Beyonce
There’s nothing like the free publicity that comes with promoting an album at the Grammys. One year after announcing The Tortured Poets Department on the Grammy broadcast, Swift arrived at the 2025 Grammys with six nominations for that album.
For the first time since 2009, Swift served as an award presenter on the show. She presented Best Country Album, which in a historic decision went to Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter.
Swift did not win anything this year, as Kendrick Lamar swept most of the big categories. But Taylor was in good spirits all night, enjoying the show and celebrating her friends’ wins.
2026
Wins/Nominations: 0/0
Nominations: None
Attended Ceremony?: No
Taylor’s latest album The Life of a Showgirl came out after the 2026 Grammy deadline, so it won’t be eligible until 2027. That means she’s not nominated this year, for the first time since 2017.
Through 2026, Taylor Swift has won 14 Grammy Awards out of 58 nominations, making her one of the most-nominated artists ever. We rank her as one of the few artists who has a chance to catch Beyonce’s all-time Grammy record.
She’s well on her way to becoming a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer!
Taylor Swift Grammy Nominations By Year
Bold = awards that Swift won. Brackets [ ] show the actual winner that Swift lost to.
2008: Best New Artist [Amy Winehouse]
2010: Album of the Year, Fearless
2010: Record of the Year, “You Belong With Me” [Kings of Leon, “Use Somebody”]
2010: Song of the Year, “You Belong With Me” with Liz Rose [Beyonce, “Single Ladies”]
2010: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, “You Belong With Me” [Beyonce, “Halo”]
2010: Best Country Album, Fearless
2010: Best Country Song, “White Horse” with Liz Rose
2010: Best Female Country Vocal Performance, “White Horse”
2010: Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, “Breathe” with Colbie Caillat [Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat, “Lucky”]
2012: Best Country Album, Speak Now [Lady Antebellum, Own the Night]
2012: Best Country Song, “Mean”
2012: Best Country Solo Performance, “Mean”
2013: Record of the Year, “We Are Never Getting Back Together” [Gotye & Kimbra, “Somebody That I Used to Know”]
2013: Best Country Duo/Group Performance, “Safe & Sound” with the Civil Wars [Little Big Town, “Pontoon”]
2013: Best Song Written for Visual Media, “Safe & Sound” with the Civil Wars
2014: Album of the Year, Red [Daft Punk, Random Access Memories]
2014: Best Country Album, Red [Kacey Musgraves, Same Trailer Different Park]
2014: Best Country Song, “Begin Again” [Kacey Musgraves, “Merry Go Round”]
2014: Best Country Duo/Group Performance, “Highway Don’t Care” with Tim McGraw & Keith Urban [The Civil Wars, “From This Valley”]
2015: Record of the Year, “Shake it Off” [Sam Smith, “Stay With Me”]
2015: Song of the Year, “Shake it Off” with Max Martin & Shellback [Sam Smith, “Stay With Me”]
2015: Best Pop Solo Performance, “Shake it Off” [Pharrell Williams, “Happy”]
2016: Album of the Year, 1989
2016: Record of the Year, “Blank Space” [Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars, “Uptown Funk”]
2016: Song of the Year, “Blank Space” with Max Martin & Shellback [Ed Sheeran, “Thinking Out Loud”]
2016: Best Pop Vocal Album, 1989
2016: Best Pop Solo Performance, “Blank Space” [Ed Sheeran, “Thinking Out Loud”]
2016: Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, “Bad Blood” with Kendrick Lamar [Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars, “Uptown Funk”]
2016: Best Music Video, “Bad Blood” with Kendrick Lamar
2018: Best Country Song, “Better Man” [Chris Stapleton, “Broken Halos”]
2018: Best Song Written for Visual Media, “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” with Jack Antonoff and Sam Dew [Lin-Manuel Miranda, “How Far I’ll Go”]
2019: Best Pop Vocal Album, Reputation [Ariana Grande, Sweetener]
2020: Song of the Year, “Lover” [Billie Eilish, “Bad Guy”]
2020: Best Pop Vocal Album, Lover [Billie Eilish, When We Fall Asleep Where Do We Go]
2020: Best Pop Solo Performance, “You Need to Calm Down” [Lizzo, “Truth Hurts”]
2021: Album of the Year, Folklore
2021: Song of the Year, “Cardigan” with Aaron Dessner [H.E.R., “I Can’t Breathe”]
2021: Best Pop Vocal Album, Folklore [Dua Lipa, Future Nostalgia]
2021: Best Pop Solo Performance, “Cardigan” [Harry Styles, “Watermelon Sugar”]
2021: Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, “Exile” with Bon Iver [Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande, “Rain on Me”]
2021: Best Song Written for Visual Media, “Beautiful Ghosts” [Billie Eilish & Finneas, “No Time to Die”]
2022: Album of the Year, Evermore [Jon Batiste, We Are]
2023: Song of the Year, “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” with Liz Rose [Bonnie Raitt, “Just Like That”]
2023: Best Country Song, “I Bet You Think About Me” with Lori McKenna [Matt Rogers & Ben Stennis, “Til You Can’t”]
2023: Best Music Video, “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)”
2023: Best Song Written for Visual Media, “Carolina” [Lin-Manuel Miranda, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”]
2024: Album of the Year, Midnights
2024: Record of the Year, “Anti-Hero” [Miley Cyrus, “Flowers”]
2024: Song of the Year, “Anti-Hero” with Jack Antonoff [Billie Eilish & Finneas, “What Was I Made For”]
2024: Best Pop Vocal Album, Midnights
2024: Best Pop Solo Performance, “Anti-Hero” [Miley Cyrus, “Flowers”]
2024: Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, “Karma” with Ice Spice [SZA & Phoebe Bridgers, “Ghost in the Machine”]
2025: Album of the Year, The Tortured Poets Department [Beyonce, Cowboy Carter]
2025: Record of the Year, “Fortnight” with Post Malone [Kendrick Lamar, “Not Like Us”]
2025: Song of the Year, “Fortnight” with Post Malone and Jack Antonoff [Kendrick Lamar, “Not Like Us”]
2025: Best Pop Vocal Album, The Tortured Poets Department [Sabrina Carpenter, Short n Sweet]
2025: Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, “Us” with Gracie Abrams [Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile”]
2025: Best Music Video, “Fortnight” with Post Malone [Kendrick Lamar, “Not Like Us”]
Total Wins: 14
Total Nominations: 58
Taylor Swift Grammy Nominations and Wins By Category
Wins/Total Nominations in Each Category:
Album of the Year: 4/7
Record of the Year: 0/6
Song of the Year: 0/8
Best New Artist: 0/1
Best Pop Vocal Album: 2/6
Best Pop Solo Performance: 0/6
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: 0/5
Best Country Album: 1/3
Best Country Song: 2/5
Best Country Solo Performance: 2/2
Best Country Duo/Group Performance: 0/2
Best Music Video: 2/3
Best Song Written for Visual Media: 1/4
List of Taylor Swift Grammy Performances
Performances on the Actual Grammy Awards:
2009: “Fifteen” with Miley Cyrus
2010: “Today Was a Fairytale,” “Rhiannon” with Stevie Nicks, “You Belong With Me” with Stevie Nicks
2012: “Mean”
2013: “We Are Never Getting Back Together” (show opener)
2014: “All Too Well”
2016: “Out of the Woods” (show opener)
2021: “Cardigan,” “August,” “Willow”
Performances on the Grammy Nominations Announcement Special:
Dec 2008: “I’m Sorry” / “White Horse”
In case you’re wondering, with seven performances on the Grammys, Swift is still nowhere close to the record for most Grammy performances in history.
What is your favorite Taylor Swift Grammy moment?
Last Updated on July 8, 2026