Her self-titled debut album in 2006 peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 and spent the most weeks on the chart in the 2000s.

Taylor was named after her aunt Alison.

During the show, Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift's speech for winning the award for Best Female Video ("You Belong with Me"), which spawned the "I'mma let you finish" internet meme.

Jake Gyllenhaal reportedly spent $160,000 to have Taylor flown over on a private jet for a date. He later broke up with her through a text message.

"Shake It Off" won Favorite Song at the 2015 People's Choice Awards, and also received nominations for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance at the 2015 Grammy Awards.

Before Taylor made it to Nashville, she lived somewhere else: A farm. OK, so maybe not like the kind of farm that word conjures up for most of us, with cows and chickens and Old MacDonald and stuff, but a Pennsylvania Christmas tree farm is pretty close.

Taylor and Taylor met on the set of Valentine's Day. They dated briefly, and the relationship reportedly inspired the song "Back To December".

Taylor's 2012 hit "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" earned her a Guinness World Record when it climbed to No. 1 on the iTunes singles sales chart just 50 minutes after it was released.

Taylor not only served as spokesperson for the National Hockey League's Nashville Predators, but once distracted opposing player Patrick Kane, allowing the Predators to score a goal.

Swift wrote "Tim McGraw" during her freshman year of high school, knowing that she and her senior boyfriend, Brandon Borello, would break up at the end of the year when he left for college.