List of songs by Taylor Swift

The American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has written or co-written every song in her eleven-album discography, with the exception of several cover versions and guest features. She has also written standalone singles, songs for film soundtracks, and songs recorded by other artists.

Swift signed a publishing contract with Sony/ATV Tree Music Publishing to become a professional songwriter in 2005.^[1] She signed with Big Machine Records in 2005, and the label released her first six studio albums until the contract expired in 2018.^[2][3] Her early-career songwriting outputs featured collaborations with Liz Rose, who co-wrote with Swift for the albums Taylor Swift (2006), Fearless (2008), and Red (2012).^[4] She was the sole writer of the majority of Fearless and Red,^[5][6] and she wrote her third studio album, Speak Now, solely herself.^[7] Promoted to country radio, these four albums incorporate mainstream pop and rock elements, with Red featuring influences of electronic and hip hop.^[8] She recalibrated her artistry from country to pop with her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014), which includes writing collaborations with Jack Antonoff, Max Martin, and Shellback.^[9] The three writers-producers worked with Swift again on her sixth studio album, Reputation (2017).^[10]

Swift signed a new contract with Republic Records in 2018^[11] and has worked with Antonoff on every album she released thereafter.^[12] Her first album under Republic, Lover (2019), is a pop album that features collaborations with Joel Little, Louis Bell, and Frank Dukes.^[13] In 2020, Swift signed a new publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group^[11] and released two albums, Folklore and Evermore, which incorporates indie folk.^[14] Folklore and Evermore contains collaborations with Aaron Dessner, who became a frequent collaborator with Swift in the subsequent albums, Midnights (2022) and The Tortured Poets Department (2024),^[15] which both have a synth-pop sound.^[16] Swift's former boyfriend, the actor Joe Alwyn, co-wrote several songs with her for Folklore, Evermore, and Midnights.^[17]

Swift's departure from Big Machine resulted in a public dispute over the ownership of her first six albums in 2019, and she re-recorded them to claim ownership to their master recordings.^[2] She has released four re-recorded albums—Fearless (Taylor's Version), Red (Taylor's Version), Speak Now (Taylor's Version), and 1989 (Taylor's Version)—from 2021 to 2023;^[2] each of them includes "From the Vault" unreleased songs Swift had written but excluded from the original releases.^[18]