Feeling 2022? All the records Taylor Swift broke last year and what to expect in 2023

Taylor Swift and her millions of fans have proven once again that they are a force to be reckoned with in 2022.

From a record breaking album release with her tenth album ‘Midnights’ to exciting rumours of what’s next for the Taylor Version’s re-releases, to Swift’s announcement of her directorial feature film debut.

Swift has been breaking records, and making waves in the music industry until the very last moment of the year with an announcement coming out just this week that Midnights, which was released in October, helped vinyl sales past the sale of CD’s for the first time since the 1980’s.

The singer’s fans, also known as ‘Swifties’, have made her tenth album the UK’s biggest selling-vinyl record of the century, and with that have pushed annual revenue made by the sale of vinyl album sales above CD sales for the first time since 1987.

Fans had been desperate for new music after Swift spent 2021 re-releasing her second and fourth albums, Fearless and Red respectively, which of course included never before heard songs from the songwriter. Swift announced ‘Midnights’ while picking up an award at the VMA’s, and when the album dropped it soared to the top of charts globally, and even crashed Spotify.

So, what records did Taylor Swift broken in 2022? Here are thirteen times the singer-songwriter broke records in 2022:

1) After the release of ‘Midnights’ Taylor Swift became the only artist in history to claim all top ten entries on the Billboard Hot 100 in a single week

2) Swift sold the most vinyls in the UK than any other artist

3) Midnights also broke the modern-era record in the US for vinyl sales in a single week, selling 575,000 vinyl LPs.

4) She became the most streamed artist in a day on Spotify after crashing the site

5) Before Midnight's release day had ended, Swift snagged the record for the most-streamed album in a single day.

6) The success of Midnight’s meant that Swift broke the record for the most first-day streams in Spotify history. According to Guinness World Records, the original and 3 a.m. versions of the album acquired 184,695,609 streams total.

7) She also broke Amazon Music's record for the most first-day streams of an album and the most Alexa requests ever.

8) Of course, Swift also broke the Apple Music record too and made Midnights their biggest pop album of all time for day one streams.

9) According to Billboard, Taylor is also the first artist to spend a full year as #1 on the Billboard Artist 100 list.

10) With her new album comes a brand new tour, The Eras Tour broke the Ticketmaster record for the most tickets ever sold for an artist in a single day, selling over 2 million tickets.

11) Swift also broke her own record at the American Music Awards this year as the most decorated AMA winning artist of all time, with 40 total wins.

12) After winning Video of the Year for "All Too Well: The Short Film" at the MTV Video Music Awards this year, she set the record as the first artist to win the category for a video they directed and the first artist to win the category three times.

13) Taylor snagged her sixth Song of the Year Grammy nomination this year for "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)." She's never won the category, but she is the female artist who has been nominated for it the most times. She is tied for most nominations in the category with Paul McCartney and Lionel Richie.

It’s hard to keep up with Swift who has been on a roll - releasing two albums in 2020 and 2021, and Midnights this year.

And there's no signs of the superstar slowing down yet. She is nominated for four Grammy awards - Best Song, Best Music Video, best Song Written for Visual Media, and Best Country Song - many of which she is arguable a favourite for.

She is also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song off the back off 'Carolina' for film 'Where the Crawdads Sing'.

Finally, the musician is set to go on her hugely anticipated Eras Tour across the US. Shows are set to begin in March and the artist will be performing right until the end of May at various stadiums across the US.

It seems that Swift is not done for the year yet either. It’s rumoured that more is on the way during the biggest midnight of the year. Fans are convinced that the highly anticipated music video for ‘Lavender Haze’ , the opening track on ‘Midnights’ will drop on New Year’s Eve.