On Swift’s second album she still kept things country, but this time the pop edge that defined later releases was more evident.

Next up for the 1989 era was “Bad Blood,” a scathing song that’s allegedly about Swift’s feud with Katy Perry. Because albums often drop in sales after their initial release, Swift did not expect her album to remain long on the chart: "I would be incredibly lucky to see this album certified Gold. Your braids like a pattern/Love you to the moon and to Saturn,” she sings on “seven,” a song about two friends planning a getaway. Filled with rootin’ tootin’ tunes like ‘Tim McGraw’, ‘Our Song’ and ‘Teardrops on My Guitar’ (largely considered Swift’s breakout song) that stormed the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, it earned a teenage Taylor support slots on tour with Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts and Faith Hill. Her self-titled debut album (2006) spent 157 weeks on the Billboard 200 by December 2009 and registered more weeks on the chart than any other album in the 2000s decade.Surprise-releasing a career-defining album in the midst of a paralyzing global pandemic is an admirable flex; doing it again barely five months later is a display of confidence and concentration so audacious that you have every right to feel personally chastised. She came out of the gate with “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” sending a message that she was going to be exploring pop music and also that they were never getting back together. In the United States, the new edition contains an enhanced content, featuring the music videos of "Tim McGraw" and "Teardrops on My Guitar". With the latter, she also shifted gears from her typical highly produced music video, and released a live acoustic video for the song. Folklore made Swift the first musician to have seven albums each selling at least 500,000 copies within the first week of release in the United States.

Next, she released “End Game” which featured Ed Sheeran and Future, and followed it up with “New Year’s Day,”“Gorgeous,”“Delicate,” and “Getaway Car,” which all have her typical themes of love (with some added lust) and loss. Lover was the global best-selling album by a solo artist of 2019 [18] and was Swift's first to reach number one in Spain [19] and Sweden. Red’ is filled with top notch tunes: the brilliantly snarky ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ (Swift’s first ever Billboard 100 Number One) and fizzing ’22’ are stone-cold smashers.

Having sold over 200 million records worldwide, Taylor Swift is one of the best-selling musicians of all time, released 9 original studio albums, 2 re-recorded studio albums, 5 extended plays (EP), 3 live albums, and 14 miscellaneous compilations.