Highlights

• Spotify reveals the top streamed Taylor Swift songs, showing fan love for raw, personal, or re-released tracks.
• Swift's songs resonate emotionally, empowering fans to move past pain, driving spike in streams.
• Spotify data reveals consistent popularity of hits like "Love Story," and notes the resurgence of personal songs like "August."

Taylor Swift is LITERALLY one of the most popular musicians on the planet, but that should not come as any shock. What might be unknown, however, is just which of the 119 songs Swift has written are the most popular at any given moment.

Luckily, Spotify allows us to see what the 15 most-streamed Taylor Swift songs are these days. While some songs have been bumped off the list over the years, like Swift's 2021 number-one single "All Too Well (Ten Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)", others that are more personal have taken their place. And while there are classic Swift songs in the top 15, the most popular ones of late are those that are raw and personal from Swift or those that have been re-released so that Swift makes money versus Scooter Braun. Songs that fans can relate to and can use to move past their pain just as Swift did when she was writing the song.

These are the fifteen most popular Taylor Swift songs on Spotify right now.

This list has been updated to reflect the most recent downloads on Spotify in February 2024. Many of Taylor Swift's songs are close to having the same downloaded number. As such, while currently accurate, the list may change at any time.

15 Love Story

Number Of Streams On Spotify: 843,192,342 (Total), 490,573 (Daily)

Love Story is one of the first songs that Swift wrote about a boy that she liked. However, her parents did not like him and wanted him to stay away, hence the Romeo and Juliet references.

Swift admitted that she could relate to Romeo and Juliet at the time the song was written because there was a "need to hide the love" between the two of them. Of course, the ending of the tragedy was not something that Swift could relate to and as such was not depicted in the song.

14 You Need To Calm Down

Number Of Streams On Spotify: 866,185,359 (Total), 681,051 (Daily)

The second single to drop from Lover was You Need To Calm Down. Unlike Swift's other songs that she released in conjunction with a video, she chose to release the song itself first. And in doing so, caused a sensation on YouTube.

You Need To Calm Down is an upbeat pop song that is a "sassy response to internet trolls that drag her and others." It helps to empower listeners and makes them feel upbeat rather than blue at the end of the song. As such, it is no wonder it is one of Swift's most downloaded songs on Spotify.

13 Delicate

Number Of Streams On Spotify: 911,350,608 (Total), 839,891 (Daily)

Though Swift never explicitly said that Delicate was about her now-ex, Joe Alwyn, the lyrics led fans to believe that the song was none other than a love song for her love.

While the song and the video do not necessarily mirror one another, there is no denying that the song is catchy and the video stunning. As such, it is a win-win for Swift and her camp, not to mention the continued downloads years after it was released.

12 Wildest Dreams

Number Of Streams On Spotify: 915,029,407 (Total), 508,361 (Daily)

Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version)" was released in September 2021, and it remains only one of two songs released from the re-recorded album 1989 (Taylor's Version), with This Love (Taylor's Version) being the second.

Swift released her version of this single after the original version of Wildest Dreams started trending on TikTok. She wanted her version to trend instead.

Clearly, her plan worked, and her loyal fans started streaming the new version of Wildest Dreams instead of the original.

11 august

Number Of Streams On Spotify: 960,499,246 (Total), 1,304,759 (Daily)

august began to make a resurgence in popularity during the Summer of 2023. Since that time, it has jumped its way onto the top 15 most streamed songs for Swift. The song gained so much traction that it went from being not on the list at all in September, to becoming the twelfth-most streamed song of the Midnights singer to date.

When Folklore was released in 2020, august quickly became one of the most popular songs on the album. This is likely because the song is about a romance that is burning strong when it starts, but it was always doomed to fail when it comes to the duration of the love the characters had for one another. Fans can relate and continue to love the song, as proven by its numbers streamed on Spotify.

10 Don't Blame Me

Number Of Streams On Spotify: 985,012,100 (Total), 1,501,331 (Daily)

Don't Blame Me compares being in a relationship, the right relationship even, to being obsessed with the other person. The song is not about any particular boyfriend that Swift had. It is just about a generalization of relationships.

Further still, Swift talks about how the media portrays her in a certain light that may not necessarily be true. But because a picture is worth a thousand words, people believe more of what they see rather than what is real.

9 Look What You Made Me Do

Number Of Streams On Spotify: 1,071,652,959 (Total), 894,009 (Daily)

When Look What You Made Me Do made its debut in 2017, it was a sound unlike anything Swift had put out before. The fast beat and electronic sound were infectious. But better still, the meaning behind the song made Swifties download it in droves.

For the first time, Swift slyly addressed the Kanye West and Kim Kardashian drama. Swift called out those who pushed her to write to move past the pain they caused her without naming names.

It was the perfect "Look what you made me do. Look what you made me do.... You made me break records, you made me sell more records than anyone else" moment. And fans lived for it.

8 Style

Number Of Streams On Spotify: 1,132,464,584 (Total), 856,986 (Daily)

Style was not a song that Swift had envisioned doing until she heard the beat while recording at the studio. It was then that Swift knew she had to collaborate on the track and in doing so, a hit was born.

Many believe that the song is about Harry Styles. However, like some of Swift's songs, it does not blame the male half of the relationship for the problems that caused the relationship to end.

Instead, according to Swift, it talks about what happens when the "rules in a relationship are very blurred... it gets very complicated very quickly, and there’s not a case of who was right or who was wrong."

7 cardigan

Number Of Streams On Spotify: 1,146,765,877 (Total), 1,747,800 (Daily)

Fans of Swift's, both young and old, can relate to cardigan. This is because the song is about the first heartbreak that teenage girls experience and how even as the pain from the heartbreak fades, it is always there as a memory.

cardigan is not about anyone in Swift's life. Instead, the song is told by Swift from a narrative standpoint. Something that was different for Swift on her Folklore album but still managed to resound with her fans to the point where it became one of her most downloaded songs to date.

6 Lover

Number Of Streams On Spotify: 1,231,182,449 (Total), 2,818,070 (Daily)

Lover is the title track from Swift's 2019 album Lover. The song was released as the third single from the album and would go on to be nominated for Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards. Not only did Swift sing and write the song, but she also directed the song's music video, which co-starred dancer Christian Owens.

Interestingly, Owens was a backup dancer for Swift on both her 1989 World Tour and her Reputation Stadium Tour. But these days, he is an opening act on the Eras Tour, performing from his debut album.

5 Shake It Off

Number Of Streams On Spotify: 1,320,926,904 (Total), 832,720 (Daily)

Shake It Off was the lead single from Swift's Grammy Award-winning album 1989.

1989 was the album that marked Swift's official transition from country music to pop, and Shake It Off proved to be a hit on the pop music charts. It was named a number-one single by Billboard and a Diamond-certified record by the Recording Industry Association of America. It also earned three nominations at the 2015 Grammy Awards, including a nomination for Song of the Year.

4 Anti-Hero

Number Of Streams On Spotify: 1,397,120,450 (Total), 1,944,900 (Daily)

Everyone has insecurities. Even Swift. But those insecurities had never been addressed so painfully raw as they were in Anti-Hero. And that is likely why the song is in the top five of downloaded Swift songs on Spotify.

"This song is a real guided tour throughout all the things that I tend to hate about myself," Swift explained on Instagram. "We all hate things about ourselves, and it's all of those aspects of the things we dislike and like about ourselves that we have to come to terms with if we're going to be this person."

And it is because of being so open and honest that Anti-Hero became one of Swift's favorite songs.

3 I Don't Wanna Live Forever

Number Of Streams On Spotify: 1,572,180,184 (Total), 980,154 (Daily)

Taking the 3rd spot is I Don't Wanna Live Forever. Swift recorded this song as a duet with Zayn Malik, and it was featured on the soundtrack for the second of the Fifty Shades movies, Fifty Shades Darker.

Malik is the ex-boyfriend of Swift's good friend Gigi Hadid, and the ex-bandmate of Swift's ex-boyfriend, so it makes sense why fans are still so interested in this song more than seven years after it came out.

2 Blank Space

Number Of Streams On Spotify: 1,716,681,740 (Total), 1,176,813 (Daily)

Blank Space was released as the second single from 1989, not long after Shake It Off was released. While Blank Space is tonally very different from Shake It Off, it also shot to the top of the charts.

Just like Shake It Off, Blank Space was also a critical hit. It was nominated for three Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year.

1 Cruel Summer

Number Of Streams On Spotify: 1,734,881,652 (Total), 4,729,326 (Daily)

One of the songs that is not about anyone in particular but instead about romance in general is Cruel Summer. The song instead talks about a relationship that takes place during the summer that is not serious but half of the couple has more feelings than the other. And when the relationship ends at the end of summer, it can be more difficult for one person to handle than the other.

Given that this song was supposed to be a part of the Lover tour that was canceled because of the pandemic, fans were ecstatic to see that it was going to be part of the playlist for The Eras Tour.

Sources: songfacts, popsongprofessor, storyofsong, currently.att.yahoo.com