One way or the other, after near twenty years of pop dominance, there are nonetheless important Grammy milestones left for Taylor Swift to realize.
Regardless of incomes a whopping 52 nominations (earlier than including six this 12 months) and scoring 14 wins up to now, she has struck out relating to two of the ceremony’s greatest classes: document and track of the 12 months. On Sunday evening, Swift will get her newest likelihood in each of these competitions with “Fortnight,” the brooding electro-pop monitor that includes Publish Malone that led off her 2024 launch “The Tortured Poets Division.” This can be her sixth time within the operating for document of the 12 months and eighth for track.
For document of the 12 months, which honors performers and producers, she’s nominated alongside Publish Malone in addition to Jack Antonoff, who co-produced together with her. A track of the 12 months win for “Fortnight” would additionally honor the trio, who share writing credit score.
Swift’s historical past with the classes begins in 2010, when “You Belong With Me,” her multiplatinum hit from “Fearless,” earned nods in each competitions. She additionally picked up document of the 12 months nominations for “We Are By no means Ever Getting Again Collectively” (2013), “Shake It Off” (2015), “Clean House” (2016) and “Anti-Hero” (2024). Her track of the 12 months nods got here for “Shake It Off” (2015), “Clean House” (2016), “Lover” (2020), “Cardigan” (2021), the 10-minute model of “All Too Effectively” (2023) and “Anti-Hero” (2024).
Swift has been a contender within the so-called “large 4” Grammy classes since 2008, when she earned a greatest new artist nomination — her first-ever Grammy nod — however misplaced to Amy Winehouse. She holds the document because the performer with probably the most wins in album of the 12 months, having taken house the trophy 4 instances — most not too long ago in 2024 for “Midnights.” (She may add a fifth this 12 months, with “The Tortured Poets Division.”) Her different 10 Grammy wins have are available a wide range of classes, together with two apiece for greatest pop vocal album, greatest music video and greatest nation track.