Taylor Swift 1989 surpasses 10 billion Spotify streams, sets historic record

Swift’s 2014 pop breakthrough becomes her fifth album crossing 10 billion Spotify streams

Taylor Swift has reached another major streaming milestone, with her 2014 album 1989 officially exceeding 10 billion streams on Spotify, according to InMusic. The achievement makes Swift the first artist in Spotify history to have five separate albums cross the 10-billion-stream mark.

With 1989 joining Lover, Midnights, folklore, and reputation in the elite streaming category, Swift continues to extend her lead as one of the platform’s most consistently streamed artists across multiple eras. InMusic reports that Lover currently leads her catalog with nearly 14 billion streams, followed by Midnights and folklore, both above 11 billion.

No other artist has matched the same level of sustained album performance. While The Weeknd has three albums surpassing 10 billion streams, Billie Eilish and Dua Lipa are the only other female artists with more than one project reaching the milestone.

Originally released in October 2014, 1989 marked a defining moment in Swift’s career, representing a full transition from country music into mainstream pop. Named after her birth year, the album featured production from Max Martin, Shellback, Jack Antonoff, Ryan Tedder, Imogen Heap, and Nathan Chapman, drawing inspiration from 1980s pop sounds.

The album produced multiple Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 singles, including “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space,” and “Bad Blood,” and remained atop the Billboard 200 for 11 weeks. It also became the best-selling album in the United States that year and later won Album of the Year at the 2016 Grammy Awards, cementing its long-term cultural and commercial impact.