Taylor Swift’s greatest achievements and why she’s the biggest artist of this century and one of the most successful of all times: [a thread]

She was the first female ever to win Album of the year twice at the Grammys. She also joined a selected group: only 6 artist managed to win the most important award twice.

Just to put this into perspective, absolute legends, like Michael Jackson or The Beatles, couldn’t do it.

The reputation stadium tour was the highest grossing tour of all time in the US. It generated $266 millions and sold over 2 million tickets.

According to Billboard, she’s the 8th most successful artist of all time. Taylor is also the best one to debut this century, and the youngest on the top 10.

Taylor holds the most awarded albums in history in 2 different genres: Fearless in country and 1989 in pop.

Taylor is the female with the most weeks spent at #1 on the Billboard 200 ever. She’s also the female with the most entries on the Billboard hot 100.

She has been crowned as the best artist of the 2010’s. Taylor is also the first female ever to be named the artist of the decade.

Taylor is the first and only artist to debut with +500K with 6 different albums in the US. 4 of them sold +1M, which is another record as well.

She’s also the only one to debut with +1M sales worldwide with 6 different records.

The BMI awards gave her the Taylor Swift award. She’s the only artist alongside with Michael Jackson to receive an award with their own name.

Taylor is the only female ever to replace herself on the top of the Billboard hot 100.

Taylor is the artist with the most AMAs wins ever. She’s also the most awarded female at the Billboard Music Awards. 2 of the 3 most important music ceremonies.

Taylor is the youngest artist ever to win the most important award at the CMA’s: entertainer of the year. She’s also one of the 2 females to win the award back-to-back

Taylor is the only artist to win both the Grammy Award for Best Country Album and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album