Top 5 Most Streamed Taylor Swift Songs, Ranked

Taylor Swift is a name that no longer needs an introduction, thanks to her status as a global pop star. She began her journey as an artist at a young age and was majorly influenced by her grandmother Marjorie Finlay, an opera singer. Over the years, she has cited many artists such as Shania Twain and Faith Hill for influencing her music.

Swift also began earning success early on in her career as her debut self-titled album peaked at number five on the US Billboard 200 and stayed on the chart for 157 weeks. Although she started out as a country pop singer, it did not take long for her to transition to mainstream pop music.

Almost two decades and 11 original studio albums later, she is now one of the leading figures in the music industry, or as they say, the music industry itself. Most of her songs have millions of streams. Even so, some rank higher than the rest on the global streaming platform, Spotify.

Lover

This song is the title track from her seventh studio album. Lover is also her first studio album after she signed with Universal Music Group post her highly publicized feud with Big Machine Records over the ownership of the masters of her albums.

Often speculated to be an ode to her relationship with then-boyfriend Joe Alwyn, the timeless love song was released in 2019. It has over 1.5 billion streams on Spotify. Swift produced the song with long-time collaborator Jack Antonoff.

Anti-Hero

Anti-hero is the lead single from her tenth studio album Midnights and has over 1.6 billion streams. It is also produced by the hitmaker herself and Antonoff. Largely inspired by Swift’s insecurities, it has themes of self-loathing and chronicles fame’s effect on the singer’s well-being. It was nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Solo Performance at the Grammys.

The music video for this song saw the Wildest Dreams singer deal with her deepest insecurities, fears, and also her eating disorder. It was criticized upon its initial release due to the visual of a scale reading “FAT” striking a nerve with body-positivity activists (via Rolling Stone). The scene was completely cut off from the video later.

I Don’t Wanna Live Forever

I Don’t Wanna Live Forever is from the soundtrack for Fifty Shades Darker, the second movie of the Fifty Shades film trilogy, based on E. L. James’ novel series of the same name. Released in 2016 ahead of the film’s release the following year, it has approximately 1.7 billion streams.

The song is a collaboration between Swift and former British boyband, One Direction, member Zayn Malik. It is a song about the intense emotions experienced during a tumultuous romantic relationship. The lyrics convey feelings of longing, heartbreak, and desperation over a broken relationship and the difficulty of moving on.

Blank Space

Swift has been widely known for talking back to the media through her songs. Blank Space was one of the first examples of her doing the same as she portrayed herself as a “serial dater”, an image painted by the media which claimed that she was heartlessly jumping from one boyfriend to the next. It received Grammy nominations for Song of the Year and Record of the Year.

The song is a single from her album 1989, titled after her birth year. It is the songstress’ second most-streamed song with over 1.9 billion streams. It also marked a huge achievement in her career as she became the first female artist to knock off her own song from the number-one spot, replacing Shake It Off.

Cruel Summer

Cruel Summer is yet another song from her album Lover. Although it is the most streamed song in her discography, with approximately 2.4 billion streams, it notably does not have a music video, unlike the other songs mentioned in this list. Another interesting fact about this song is that it was originally released in 2019, but did not instantly get famous.

During one of her Eras Tour concerts (via Billboard), Swift admitted that the global pandemic became a hindrance in the promotion of this song as the summer ballad of 2020. Her current record label, Republic Records, promoted it to pop radio stations in 2023, and it quickly became the song of the summer.

Besides these, Shake It Off, cardigan, Style, august, and Don’t Blame Me are some of her most streamed songs. Her most recent studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, has also produced some hits, but they are nowhere close to the aforementioned songs as of this writing.

All of the songs are available for streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.