Somehow, after close to two decades of pop dominance, there are still significant Grammy milestones left for Taylor Swift to achieve.
Despite earning a whopping 52 nominations (before adding six this year) and scoring 14 wins to date, she has struck out when it comes to two of the ceremony’s biggest categories: record and song of the year. On Sunday night, Swift will get her latest chance in both of those competitions with “Fortnight,” the brooding electro-pop track featuring Post Malone that led off her 2024 release “The Tortured Poets Department.” This will be her sixth time in the running for record of the year and eighth for song.
For record of the year, which honors performers and producers, she’s nominated alongside Post Malone as well as Jack Antonoff, who co-produced with her. A song of the year win for “Fortnight” would also honor the trio, who share writing credit.
Swift’s history with the categories starts in 2010, when “You Belong With Me,” her multiplatinum hit from “Fearless,” earned nods in both competitions. She also picked up record of the year nominations for “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” (2013), “Shake It Off” (2015), “Blank Space” (2016) and “Anti-Hero” (2024). Her song of the year nods came for “Shake It Off” (2015), “Blank Space” (2016), “Lover” (2020), “Cardigan” (2021), the 10-minute version of “All Too Well” (2023) and “Anti-Hero” (2024).
Swift has been a contender in the so-called “big four” Grammy categories since 2008, when she earned a best new artist nomination — her first-ever Grammy nod — but lost to Amy Winehouse. She holds the record as the performer with the most wins in album of the year, having taken home the trophy four times — most recently in 2024 for “Midnights.” (She could add a fifth this year, with “The Tortured Poets Department.”) Her other 10 Grammy wins have come in a variety of categories, including two apiece for best pop vocal album, best music video and best country song.
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