The Recording Academy prides itself on having shaped the Grammy Awards into the most coveted award in music through a peer-based voting process. An artist’s track record with the show can be career-defining, even history-making. People from all sectors of the industry influence who gets nominated and who takes home the gold. But for Taylor Swift, the most influential voices in the Grammy Awards race aren’t the songwriters, producers, or engineers who fill out ballots — it’s the Swifties who make her presence in music inescapable.
Last week, Swift earned six nominations at the 2025 Grammy Awards for her latest studio album The Tortured Poets Department. She’s nominated for both Song and Record of the Year for “Fortnight” and the album itself is up for Album of the Year. The slate of nominations made Swift the first women in Grammys history to be nominated for…
