The Grammy Awards, or GRAMMYs, are a yearly awards ceremony for achievements in the music industry. So far, Taylor Swift has received 31 nominations and won ten awards. For the upcoming 2021 Grammy Awards, she is nominated six times.
Trivia[]
- Taylor was the youngest winner of the Album of the Year award at age 20, until Billie Eilish won the award at age 18 in 2020.
Attendance, Awards and Performancers by Year[]
2008[]
Taylor at the 2008 Grammy Awards
Taylor was nominated for a Grammy Award this year for the first time. It was also the first time she attended the awards. She was nominated in the Best New Artist category.
| Year | Recipient / Nominee | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Taylor Swift | Best New Artist | Nominated |
2009[]
Taylor at the 2009 Grammy Awards
In 2009, Taylor wasn't nominated for any awards. However, she did attend and also performed at both the Grammy Nominations Concert and the Grammys itself.
At the Nominations Concert, she performed a cover of I'm Sorry by Brenda Lee and her own single White Horse, that got nominated the next year.
At the ceremony itself, she performed her song Fifteen with Miley Cyrus.
2010[]
Taylor at the 2010 Grammy Awards
In 2010, Taylor was nominated for eight Grammys and won half of them. The first award she received was Best Female Country Vocal Performance for White Horse, which was also her first Grammy Award ever. White Horse also won Best Country Song. Her 2008 album Fearless won both Best Country Album and Album of the Year.
Taylor also performed Today Was a Fairytale solo and Rhiannon (by Fleetwood Mac) and You Belong with Me with Stevie Nicks. There was a technical issue and Taylor couldn't hear herself correctly, resulting in Taylor singing off-key. She received alot of critism for the performance, which she then wrote Mean about. This song would continue to win two Grammys two years later.
| Year | Recipient / Nominee | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Fearless | Album of the Year | Won |
| Best Country Album | Won | ||
| White Horse | Best Female Country Vocal Performance | Won | |
| Best Country Song | Won | ||
| You Belong with Me | Record of the Year | Nominated | |
| Song of the Year | Nominated | ||
| Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | Nominated | ||
| Breathe (ft. Colbie Caillat) | Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals | Nominated |
2012[]
Taylor at the 2012 Grammy Awards
At the 2012 Grammys, Speak Now was nominated for Best Country Album and Mean received two Grammys for Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song.
Taylor also performed Mean at the ceremony.
| Year | Recipient / Nominee | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Speak Now | Best Country Album | Nominated |
| Mean | Best Country Solo Performance | Won | |
| Best Country Song | Won |
2013[]
Taylor at the 2013 Grammy Awards
At the 2013 Grammys, Taylor performed We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. The song was also nominated for Record of the Year. Out of her three nominations that night, she won Best Song Written for Visual Media for Safe & Sound.
| Year | Recipient / Nominee | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | Record of the Year | Nominated |
| Safe & Sound (ft. The Civil Wars) | Best Country Duo/Group Performance | Nominated | |
| Best Song Written for Visual Media | Won |
2014[]
Taylor at the 2014 Grammy Awards
Taylor was nominated for four awards at the 2014 Grammys. She didn't receive any awards that night.
Taylor did perform her song All Too Well besides not being a single, because it was requested by fans as it's very popular among them.
| Year | Recipient / Nominee | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Red | Album of the Year | Nominated |
| Best Country Album | Nominated | ||
| Begin Again | Best Country Song | Nominated | |
| Highway Don't Care (with Tim McGraw and Keith Urban) | Best Country Duo/Group Performance | Nominated |
2015[]
Taylor at the 2015 Grammy Awards
At the 2015 Grammy Awards, Taylor was nominated for three awards with Shake It Off.
| Year | Recipient / Nominee | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Shake It Off | Record of the Year | Nominated |
| Song of the Year | Nominated | ||
| Best Pop Solo Performance | Nominated |
2016[]
Taylor at the 2016 Grammy Awards
This year, Taylor was nominated in five categories and won two of them. She won Best Music Video for Bad Blood and Album of the Year for 1989. This was the second time she won the Album of the Year award.
Taylor performed Out of the Woods.
| Year | Recipient / Nominee | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1989 | Album of the Year | Won |
| Best Pop Vocal Album | Nominated | ||
| Blank Space | Record of the Year | Nominated | |
| Song of the Year | Nominated | ||
| Best Pop Solo Performance | Nominated | ||
| Bad Blood (ft. Kendrick Lamar) | Best Pop Duo/Group Performance | Nominated | |
| Best Music Video | Won |
2017[]
Taylor didn't receive any nominations and didn't attend the award show for the first time in six years.
2018[]
For the 2018 Grammy awards, Taylor received two nominations. She didn't attend the awards.
| Year | Recipient / Nominee | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Better Man (by Little Big Town) | Best Country Song | Nominated |
| I Don't Wanna Live Forever (with Zayn) | Best Song Written for Visual Media | Nominated |
2019[]
Taylor received one nomination for the 2019 Grammy Awards. She did not attend the ceremony. In her documentary Miss Americana, footage shows Taylor being saddened by not being nominated in the bigger categories and saying she needs to make a better record.
| Year | Recipient / Nominee | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | reputation | Best Pop Vocal Album | Nominated |
2020[]
Taylor received three nominations for the 2020 Grammy Awards. She did not attend the ceremony.
| Year | Recipient / Nominee | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Lover | Best Pop Vocal Album | Nominated |
| Lover | Song of the Year | Nominated | |
| You Need to Calm Down | Best Pop Solo Performance | Nominated |
2021[]
Taylor at the 2021 Grammy Awards
Taylor received six nominations for the 2021 Grammy Awards. Taylor performed cardigan, august and willow with Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff, who she wrote and produced folklore and evermore with. Prior to the show, the three of them quarantined together so they could perform safely (due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Taylor won one award, which was the Album of the Year award. This makes Taylor the first and only female artist to win the award three times, the other two being for Fearless and 1989.
| Year | Recipient / Nominee | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | folklore | Best Pop Vocal Album | Nominated |
| Album of the Year | Won | ||
| cardigan | Song of the Year | Nominated | |
| Best Solo Performance | Nominated | ||
| exile ft. Bon Iver | Best Pop Duo/Group Performance | Nominated | |
| Beautiful Ghosts | Best Song Written for Visual Media | Nominated |
Videos[]
