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the library of congress has selected taylor swift’s cover of drops of jupiter to be added to the national recording registry for preservation

This is still INSANE to me..how tf did she even pull this 😭😭

If you think about it, 1989 is objectively the most impactful album of this century. -most awarded pop era (which includes an AOTY and an Emmy) of all time -named the album of the century by The Times -widely regarded as the “POP BIBLE” -made Apple Music change their artist royalty policies within 24 hours -brought back 80s Synth pop to the mainstream pop scene -helped Max Martin, the biggest producer of all time, win his first grammy 2 decades into his career and also it was the first his work was praised by the critics -launched Jack Antonoff's career as a mainstream producer -Spotify CEO literally took 20 trips to Nashville to convince Taylor to bring 1989 and the rest of her discography back on Spotify And now it's being selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being culturally, historically and aesthetically significant

The Library of Congress has selected Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ to be added to the National Recording Registry for preservation. The registry chooses recordings based on their “cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage.”

✍️| On her 20 year of career, Songwriter extraordinaire Taylor Swift has received multiple major recognitions, all handed by experts: • Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee • The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters • BMI’s 2026 Songwriter Of The Year

Best selling soloists of all time, based on album units (via chartmasters):

Taylor Swift is crowned BMI’s Songwriter of the Year for the third year in a row.

Congratulations to @TaylorSwift13 on being named Songwriter of the Year at our 2026 #BMIPopAwards for songs like “But Daddy I Love HIm,” “Florida!!!,” “So Long, London,” and more. Your music resonated powerfully with listeners nationwide throughout the entire year. Taylor, Your Music Moves Us! 💥🎶 awards.bmi.com/show/pop-2026

🏆| Taylor has been named as the BMI Songwriter of the Year at the 2026 #BMIPopAwards for songs like “But Daddy I Love HIm,” “Florida!!!,” “So Long, London,” and more. awards.bmi.com/show/pop-2026

Universal Music is selling $1.4 billion in Spotify shares. It paid nothing for them. Spotify handed the shares over in 2008 just for letting Spotify play music, and the deal was set up so almost none of that money would ever reach the artists who made the music. Taylor Swift's 2018 contract changed that. Back in 2008, Spotify was a small Swedish startup that needed songs to play. The big record labels had the songs. They had no reason to hand them over cheap, so the two sides cut a deal. Spotify gave them shares. The labels gave Spotify the right to play their music. Universal walked away with 5%. That stake later grew to 7% when Universal bought EMI and rolled EMI's 2% into its own. Then it drifted back to 3% as Spotify took on more investors and shrank everyone's slice. At today's prices, 3% of Spotify is worth about $2.7 billion. Universal sat on those shares for 18 years and never sold a single one. Until yesterday. Most artists never see royalty money. When a label signs you, it pays you an advance to live on while you make the album. It also covers your studio time, your music videos, your marketing, your tour. All of those costs go on a tab. The label keeps every dollar your music earns until you clear that tab. Berklee, the music school in Boston, says as many as 96% of major-label artists never earn enough to clear it. They stay in the red their entire careers. Sony moved first in 2018. It sold half its Spotify shares for $768 million and paid $250 million directly to its artists in cash, no matter how much each one still owed. Warner followed a few months later. It sold all of its Spotify shares for $504 million and said $126 million would go to its artists too. Warner played it differently. Most of that money went to pay down what those artists already owed, instead of putting fresh cash in their pockets. Taylor Swift was negotiating her own deal with Universal that same year. She refused to sign unless Universal put the Sony version of the rule in her contract. Cash to artists, no matter what they owed. She wrote at the time that the clause "meant more to me than any other deal point." Universal had said publicly in March 2018 it would share Spotify money with artists. But it had not put the cash-not-credit rule in writing. Swift's contract, signed eight months later, did. Universal is finally selling. Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash are about to land in artists' bank accounts, including artists who have spent years or decades in the red and would otherwise get nothing from a sale like this. Most of those artists have never met Taylor Swift. All of them benefit from a single line she insisted on eight years ago.

Taylor's last interview was an open challenge to the industry and her peers. She basically said: here is my songwriting formula, do it if you can.

💬| The New York Times on Taylor’s career and longevity: ''Pop stars aren't expected to last this long or achieve this much. All of the Beatles' creative output happened, essentially, in eight years. But Swift's longevity—12 studio albums and hundreds of songs over two decades—has given us an unprecedented combination of musical authorship and commercial success.''

💬| Stevie Nicks praises Taylor Swift’s songwriting, specifically referencing “You’re On Your Own Kid” via @nytimes: “I feel like that song of hers is generational. I think it’s as if all her relationships are written into one single song, a little of this, a little of that, and handed to me. Over time, I’ve been putting my own great loves into her story, and it makes me cry for both of us, for what we lost, for what we learned, and for how we survived. That’s how a great songwriter reaches people’s hearts and connects with them. All that beauty, tragedy, and life lessons led her down this path of unstoppable creativity; she just doesn’t stop, and that’s what turned her into this beautiful young woman who makes magic with everything she touches.”

🚨| Taylor Swift talking about her songwriting for The New York Times

In 2014, Taylor Swift removed her music from Spotify over low pay, staying off for 3 years until 2017, she said “I’m not willing to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that doesn’t fairly compensate artists.” Fast forward to 2026, she’s its most-streamed artist ever.

Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist in Spotify history.

Taylor Swift is Spotify’s most-streamed artist of all time.

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Anne Hathaway talks about attending The Eras Tour in Germany while she was filming 'Mother Mary' and that Taylor Swift sent her a note: "She did three nights in Gelsenkirchen, and I got tickets. And, so like, me and my family, we went and it was amazing. She came out on stage and it was just like the whole place exploded. And she just like makes the audience feel so loved. And she made me feel so loved. And I'm like 'Oh my God, Annie, you're so cute. You think Taylor Swift's waving at you right now. I'm like, you're so adorable!' And then, somebody tapped me on the shoulder and they said 'Taylor wants you to have this.' And I went 'What is happening?' And I opened it. It was a note where Taylor said, , 'I'm so happy you're here. I'm going to be enthusiastically waving at you.' And I was like, 'Oh my Dod, she's so magical! She did! She did the thing!'"

Director David Lowery reveals that Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ Tour inspired Anne Hathaway’s concert scenes in A24’s ‘MOTHER MARY’: “Her Reputation concert film is one of the best concert films ever. It's truly phenomenal. And for our concert sequences we looked at that repeatedly. You would not believe the amount of time we were talking about Taylor. […] We were literally using Reputation as a guide. I can go on about Reputation all day.” (empireonline.com/movies/news/da…)