Everything to know about Taylor Swift’s Grammys wins, including how many awards she has and more.
With an illustrious career that has spanned more than 15 years, Taylor Swift has been honored with a number of awards. That includes, of course, 11 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, which she’s won three times. At the upcoming 2022 ceremony on April 3, Taylor is nominated for Album of the Year yet again for her Dec.2020 record, Evermore. If she wins, she will become the first artist to take home Album of the Year four times, although that feat has also been accomplished by three engineers in the past. Either way, with more than 40 nominations in 14 years, Taylor has been highly recognized by the Recording Academy, and has quite a history with the show. In the future, Taylor may actually also get a chance to win Grammys for some of the SAME songs and albums that she’s already won for in the past. She’s currently in the process of re-recording her first six albums in order to own the rights to the songs, and the Recording Academy confirmed that she could win Grammys for the re-recorded versions — even if she’d already won an award (aside from songwriting awards) for those albums or songs in the past! “Current eligibility guidelines would allow for the new performances and albums to be eligible if they were recorded within the last five years,” the Recording Academy told Billboard. “However, none of the older songs would be eligible for songwriting awards.” So far, Taylor has announced that her re-recorded version of her 2008 record, Fearless, is coming out on April 9, and will feature six brand new songs that didn’t make the album the first time around. Those songs will also be eligible in 2022, as long as they were recorded in the last five years and were never previously released in any form. Taylor’s re-record of Fearless was eligible at the 2022 Grammys, but she did not score any nominations. Her second-released re-record was Red in Nov.2021, but that won’t be eligible until the show in 2023. With the 2022 Grammys just days away, look back at Taylor’s history with the show here! Although Taylor was nominated for her first Grammy Award (Best New Artist) in 2009, she didn’t take home her first trophy at the show until the 2010 Grammys, where she actually won four awards. Her wins included the most coveted award of the night Album of the Year. Taylor, who was just 20 years old at the time, won for her second studio album, Fearless, which was released in the fall of 2008. She beat some of the biggest names in music — Beyonce, Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas and Dave Matthews Band — to take home the coveted honor. “Oh wow, thank you so much,” Taylor said, while accepting the trophy. “I just hope that you know how much this means to me and to my producer and all the musicians you see on this stage, that we get to take this back to Nashville. Our families are freaking out in their living rooms. My dad and my little brother are losing their mind in the living room right now. This is for my dad, thank you for all those times you said I could do whatever I wanted in life. And my mom, you’re my best friend. This is the story, all of us, when we’re 80 years old, and we’re telling the same story over and over again to our grandkids, and they’re so annoyed with us, this is the story we’re going to be telling over and over again. In 2010, how we got to win Album of the Year at the Grammys. Thank you!” Fearless also won for Best Country Album in 2010, beating Zac Brown Band, George Strait, Keith Urban and Lee Ann Womack. At the time, Taylor was fully making country music, although she has since transitioned to become a full pop star. Taylor also accepted Best Country Album onstage at the Grammys, and was equally floored to have won such an incredible honor. “This is my first time walking up those stairs to accept a Grammy on national television,” she gushed. “Thank you so much. I want to thank my record label for letting me write every song on my album. I just keep thinking back to when you’re in 2nd grade and you sing at your talent show for your first time and people joke around and say maybe we’ll see you at the Grammys someday, and that just seems like an impossible dream. I just feel like I’m standing here accepting an impossible dream right now and I thank you so much for that.
