{"id":2244603,"date":"2026-01-21T21:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2244603"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:11:26","slug":"taylor-swift-named-to-songwriters-hall-of-fame-second-youngest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/taylor-swift-named-to-songwriters-hall-of-fame-second-youngest-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Named to Songwriters Hall of Fame, Second-Youngest Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LOS ANGELES, Jan 21 – Taylor \u200cSwift, \u200b36, will become the \u200csecond-youngest songwriter ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, \u200bjoining the ranks of Stevie Wonder, who was 33 when he was inducted \u200din 1983, the organization announced \u200bon Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The honor places the pop superstar, winner of 14 Grammys, among \u200bthe \u2060most celebrated songwriters across generations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Swift will be inducted alongside Alanis Morissette, Kenny Loggins and Kiss bandmates Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, with the ceremony set for June 11 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City, the \u200corganization announced on CBS Mornings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“They’ve literally written the soundtrack to our lives. \u200bThe songs \u200cwe dance to, cry \u200dto \u2060and rock out to,” culture correspondent Anthony Mason said on CBS Mornings before announcing the inductees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Established in 1969, the Songwriters Hall of Fame requires that inducted songwriters have a notable catalog of songs to qualify for induction 20 years after the first commercial release of a song.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The “Bad Blood” singer has won four Grammy album \u200bof the year awards. Her latest release, “The Life of a Showgirl,” sold more copies than any other album in the modern era during its first week of release, according to Billboard, which cited data from Luminate, a firm that tracks music sales.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In May 2025, Swift announced that she bought her music rights, officially reclaiming ownership of all her master recordings, including her first six albums.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Later that year, Swift’s record-breaking Eras tour spawned a concert film and a six-part documentary \u200bseries that chronicles the success of the tour on Disney+.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Her 2024 “The Tortured Poets Department” album, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, sold the equivalent of 8 million albums in \u200bthe United States, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(Reporting by Danielle Broadway and Sarah Mills; Editing by Howard Goller)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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LOS ANGELES, Jan 21 – Taylor \u200cSwift, \u200b36, will become the \u200csecond-youngest songwriter ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, \u200bjoining the ranks of Stevie Wonder, who was 33 when he was inducted \u200din 1983, the organization announced \u200bon Wednesday. The honor places the pop superstar, winner of 14 Grammys, among \u200bthe \u2060most celebrated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2244604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[21751,421173,21800,413487,22683,25432],"class_list":["post-2244603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-celebrities","tag-collections-top-news","tag-music","tag-reuters","tag-top-news","tag-united-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Taylor-Swift-Named-to-Songwriters-Hall-of-Fame-Second-Youngest-Ever.c.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244605,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244603\/revisions\/2244605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}