Pop icon Taylor Swift has added another feather to her hat. On Thursday, she was inducted into the prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame at the age of 36, making her the youngest woman ever to be part of the elite club.
She broke the long-held record of Carole Bayer Sager, who was 43 when she joined the Hall of Fame in 1987. Other icons like Mariah Carey and Dolly Parton were in their 50s when they entered.
Taylor Swift has firmly established herself as the pre-eminent musical star of her generation, with 12 albums spanning country, pop, and folk, and 14 Grammy Awards, including a record four Album of the Year trophies.
She is also the female artist with the most songs ever to reach the top 10 list compiled by Billboard, and her most recent tour, The Eras Tour, brought in a record sum of around $2 billion in revenue.
Taylor Swift's induction was recognised for her ‘ability to shapeshift as a songwriter, to inhabit different sonic landscapes and write as credibly in the world of one genre as she does another is part of her superpower as a songwriter’.
