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It won't beryllium the Grammys without her. Maybe they'll get her to present.
Taylor Swift performs successful Kansas City connected May 11, 2007. Jason Squires/WireImage
Taylor Swift isn’t vying for a Grammy information successful immoderate class this year. The reason, of course, is that Swift didn’t merchandise an album, azygous oregon video successful the eligibility play for the 68th yearly Grammy Awards – Aug. 31, 2024 to Aug. 30, 2025. Her caller album, The Life of a Showgirl, and its pb single, “The Fate of Ophelia,” were some released connected Oct. 3, much than a period aft the cut-off for the 2026 awards.
This marks the archetypal clip Swift hasn’t been vying for a Grammy she was 17. For the Grammy ceremonial successful February 2007, Swift was eligible for champion state opus and champion pistillate state vocal show for her archetypal deed single, “Tim McGraw,” but she wasn’t entered successful either category. (She whitethorn person inactive been excessively engaged with her precocious schoolhouse studies to person mastered the good points of Grammy introduction deadlines.)
Swift has been a nominee successful each but 3 years since then. She wasn’t nominated astatine the ceremonies held successful 2009, 2011 and 2017, but she had been entered successful 2 oregon much categories astatine each of those shows.
Swift’s debut album, Taylor Swift, wasn’t nominated for champion state medium astatine the 2008 ceremonial (though it was entered; the grant went to Vince Gill for These Days), but each 1 of her regular workplace albums since past has been nominated for a genre medium grant (best state medium oregon champion popular vocal album) and/or medium of the year.
Twice, she was nominated for grounds of the twelvemonth with the lead-off azygous from an upcoming workplace medium – “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” from Red and “Shake It Off” from 1989.
Starting with “Cardigan” from Folklore successful 2020, Swift hasn’t released a lead-off azygous successful beforehand of her workplace albums. The pb singles from Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, The Tortured Poets Department and The Life of a Showgirl were released connected the aforesaid time arsenic the album, oregon adjacent a fewer days aft it (in the lawsuit of “Cardigan”).
Swift has won 14 Grammys, and is, famously, the lone creator successful Grammy past to triumph medium of the twelvemonth 4 times.
But Swift didn’t triumph the archetypal clip she was nominated for a Grammy. She mislaid champion caller creator successful 2008 to the talented but troubled Amy Winehouse. Swift did marque it to the signifier that twelvemonth – arsenic a presenter. She and Colombian vocalist Juanes co-presented the Grammy for champion rap/sung collaboration, which went to Rihanna and Jay-Z for “Umbrella.” Relive that infinitesimal here: