Taylor Swift’s best songs ranked: from Cruel Summer to All Too Well
Taylor Swift has been at the top of her game for a long time: first, at 16, she arrived as a ready-made country star with records glistening like chrome bumpers on Ford pickup trucks, full of Nashville accents and wailing Telecasters.
Slowly, over the 18 years that have followed, the banjos have been packed away, and she has transformed into one of the world's biggest pop acts.
In an era of megastars – Adele, Beyoncé and Ed Sheeran – she has still somehow managed to break sales records and dominate the news cycle. She has built her empire the old fashioned way, on songs and shows, demonstrated her business knack through canny endorsements and has ended up as one of the most successful artists of all time (The Eras Tour is the highest grossing tour in history).
On May 9 Swift kicked off the European leg of the Eras Tour in Paris, and she’ll be arriving in the UK on June 7, playing in Edinburgh. She’ll be stopping off in Liverpool, then Cardiff, before taking the stage in London on June 21.
Now that she’s officially in Europe, with her UK shows just days away, here’s our pick of her best songs, ranked.
15. I Knew You Were Trouble (2012)
2012 album Red took Swift's popularity to new levels and the universal appeal of I Knew You Were Trouble
