A prolific talent across country, pop and alternative – with even a little bit of rock and roll at times – Taylor Swift’s pen knows almost no bounds. From No. 1 singles to record-breaking tours, four Grammy wins for album of the year, and more accolades galore, her latest single “The Fate of Ophelia” from The Life of a Showgirl recently tied her longest leader on the Billboard Hot 100, Midnights’ “Anti-Hero,” for the most weeks on top with eight.
It’s important to note that Swift has a hand in writing all of her catalog – despite some accusations to the contrary. And throughout her career, a plethora of co-writers have worked with the pop superstar, including Jack Antonoff, Max Martin, Shellback, Ryan Tedder, Aaron Dessner, Liz Rose, Lana Del Rey, Florence Welch and even Zoe Kravitz, among many others.
But she’s also written a number of songs — 67 to be exact — all on her own. In fact, 10 of her 12 studio albums all have at least one song where she’s the only writer – Reputation and The Life of a Showgirl are the only two that don’t – and her third studio album, Speak Now, is even comprised entirely of works she wrote alone. And that goes for the vault tracks on Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), released in 2023 as well.
From her debut in 2006 to 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department, find every song she has a solo credit on, including one originally recorded by a different band (although it ended up as a vault track release), listed from the oldest original release to newest and accompanied by a standout Swift lyric below.



