The year in Taylor Swift, from The Eras Tour to 1989 (Taylor’s Version) to Travis Kelce

Taylor Swift was pop culture’s undisputed champion of 2023. Here’s a look back at her latest record-shattering era

Highlights from Taylor Swift’s record-breaking 2023. Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood; John Medina; TAS Rights Management; Noam Galai; David Eulitt; Buda Mendes/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Nobody had a year like Taylor Swift did in 2023. In fact, it’s probably fair to say no one has ever had a year like Taylor Swift did in 2023. If you thought she was inescapably famous before, her complete cultural saturation this year proved that there were yet more personal and professional peaks for her to reach.

From her tabloid-famous romances to the blockbuster success of her re-recordings to the incredible economic impact of The Eras Tour, there wasn’t a facet of pop culture that Swift’s influence didn’t reach. Click on to look back at her record-breaking, chart-dominating, award-winning 2023. Long may she reign.

Taylor Swift’s 2023 started off with a broken record, heralding what was to come for the rest of the year. On January 17, she surpassed her personal best of seven weeks at the top of the Billboard charts (for “Blank Space”) with “,” which spent a total of .

That same month, she released the co-starring transgender model Laith Ashley. (In the spirit of the nonsensical amount of records Swift would break this year, note that “Lavender Haze” became her on the Adult Pop Airplay Chart, tying Maroon 5 for the most top 10s of any artist in that category.)

Elsewhere, the held a hearing to investigate the potential alleged monopoly over at Ticketmaster, prompted by the of 2022. The Judiciary Committee hearing was an excuse for government officials to make as many Swiftie references as possible.

“To have a strong capitalist system, you have to have competition,” Senator Amy Klobuchar said in her opening statement. “You can’t have too much consolidation—something that, unfortunately for this country, as an ode to Taylor Swift, I will say, we know ‘all too well.’”

February was a relatively quiet month for Taylor Swift, meaning that the only notable event was casually for “All Too Well: The Short Film” in the Best Music Video category. The ceremony, in which her 10-year old track “All Too Well” (well, the 10-minute “(Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault”) was nominated for Song of the Year, was Swift’s only public appearance that month.

Behind the scenes, though, she was preparing for the blockbuster Eras Tour: “Every day I would run on the treadmill, singing the entire set list out loud. Fast for fast songs, and a jog or a fast walk for slow songs,” she later told magazine. “Then I had three months of dance training, because I wanted to get it in my bones. I wanted to be so over-rehearsed that I could be silly with the fans, and not lose my train of thought.”