Even without a new album or tour this year, Swift is still outselling almost everyone else
This week, President Donald Trump once again decided to bring up Taylor Swift, still feeling slighted at her Democratic voting patterns. He made another post on Truth Social, celebrating Sydney Sweeney’s controversial “great jeans” ad for American Eagle as well as the revelation that she’s a registered Republican. In praising Sweeney, he took random shots at Swift, saying that the “woke singer” is “NO LONGER HOT.”
Unfortunately for Trump, his repeated claims that Swift has lost value or momentum due to his one-sided beef with her continues to be far from the truth. According to reps from Luminate, Swift is ranked the highest-streaming female artist in the U.S. so far this year (as of July 31). That’s without releasing any new music in 2025 and based on total On-Demand Audio streams (5.3 billion total). She is still ranked third overall behind Morgan Wallen and Drake, who have released new projects and singles this year.
The biggest Swift news this year was her regaining control of her master recordings, a multiyear battle that had her rerecording four of the six albums she released with Big Machine Records. According to Hits Daily Double, regaining those masters means that she will have a market share “in the neighborhood of two percent.” That alone is worth billions.
Trump’s constant comments about his perception that Swift is somehow less successful only ramped up after she finished Eras Tour in December. With 149 shows under her belt, Swift’s trek became the highest-grossing tour of all time and the first tour to ever rake in over a billion dollars in revenue. And upon releasing her 2024 album, The Tortured Poets Department, she broke her own record of having the most-streamed album in a single day, surpassing her 2022 LP, Midnights. Trump’s only proof that she’s less successful is that she’s not actively working, but even when she’s not doing anything (that we know of, at least), she’s still one of the most commercially successful artists of all time.