Taylor Swift milestones

Order these Taylor Swift career moments by year. You place all 35 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How to play the Taylor Swift milestones timeline game

Albums, awards, tours, business battles and personal headlines from Taylor Swift's career make up this deck, and each card goes by the year it happened. The line under every milestone adds a detail, such as the hit singles on an album or what made a moment notable. One milestone is placed at the start with its year shown. Read each new card and decide where in her story it belongs. A right answer shows the year; a wrong one shifts the card to its true spot and takes one of three lives.

The deck follows her from a Nashville songwriting showcase through country stardom, the switch to pop, the fight over her masters, the re-recordings and the record-breaking tour. Album releases are the backbone, so if you know the order of her records you can hang everything else around them. The re-recorded albums are a trap, since they share names with the originals but came much later. Award wins usually come the year after the album they honor, and several cards from her busiest stretch fall in the same year.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 35 cards you might be dealt, with 7 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Plays a showcase at the Bluebird Cafe Wins over Big Machine's Scott Borchetta
  • Releases "Tim McGraw" A country single named for a star
  • Releases the album Taylor Swift Self-titled country LP on Big Machine
  • Releases Fearless Love Story and You Belong with Me
  • Named CMA Entertainer of the Year Youngest winner of country's top prize
  • Wins Album of the Year for Fearless White Horse wins two Grammys too
  • Releases Speak Now An album written entirely by herself
  • Releases Red Mixes country with pop and rock
  • Releases 1989 Moves to New York and goes full pop
  • Pulls her catalog from Spotify A stand against free streaming
  • Writes an open letter to Apple Music Wins royalties for trial-period streams
  • Launches the 1989 World Tour Highest-grossing tour of its year
  • Releases Reputation Look What You Made Me Do
  • Launches the Reputation Stadium Tour Stadium shows with giant inflatable snakes
  • Signs with Republic Records Universal deal lets her own her masters
  • Releases Lover You Need to Calm Down and The Man
  • Surprise-drops Folklore Indie-folk record made in lockdown
  • Surprise-drops Evermore Willow and No Body, No Crime
  • Wins Album of the Year for Folklore A pandemic-era Grammy night
  • Releases Fearless (Taylor's Version) A re-recording to reclaim her catalog
  • Releases Midnights Anti-Hero leads an all-Swift top ten
  • Launches the Eras Tour in Glendale A tribute to her whole discography
  • Named Time Person of the Year The magazine's top honor goes to a musician
  • Wins Album of the Year for Midnights Sets the record for wins in the category
  • Buys back her masters A deal with Shamrock Holdings
  • Gets engaged to Travis Kelce Romance with the Chiefs tight end
  • Releases The Life of a Showgirl The Fate of Ophelia and Opalite
  • Marries Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden A private ceremony in New York

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