American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has released 10 original studio albums, four re-recorded studio albums, five extended plays, and four live albums. She has sold an estimated 114 million album units worldwide and, in terms of pure sales, tallied 37.3 million in the United States and 3.34 million in the United Kingdom. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), her albums have garnered 51 million certified units in the United States. As of July 2023, she is the female artist with the most weeks (63) at number one on the US Billboard 200.
Swift signed a recording contract with Big Machine Records in 2005 and released six albums with the label. Her self-titled debut album (2006) spent 157 weeks on the Billboard 200 by December 2009 and registered more weeks on the chart than any other album in the 2000s decade. Her second, Fearless (2008), was the only album from the 2000s decade to spend one year in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and was certified Diamond by the RIAA. Fearless was Swift's first album to top the charts in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Her next studio albums—Speak Now (2010), Red (2012), 1989 (2014), and Reputation (2017)—all debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and each of them sold over one million copies within the first release week in the United States. All four albums reached number one in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand; and the latter three all reached number one in the United Kingdom.
Swift signed with Universal Music Group label Republic Records in 2018. Her next three studio albums under Republic—Lover (2019), Folklore (2020), and Evermore (2020)—all debuted atop the Billboard 200. Lover was the global best-selling album by a solo artist of 2019 and was Swift's first to reach number one in Spain and Sweden. Folklore made Swift the first musician to have seven albums each selling at least 500,000 copies within the first week of release in the United States. Her tenth original studio album, Midnights (2022), was her fifth to sell over a million US first-week copies. It broke sales and streaming records including the biggest US single-week vinyl sales and the most single-day streams on Spotify. Swift became the first artist to have the best-selling US album of a calendar year six times: 2009 (Fearless), 2014 (1989), 2017 (Reputation), 2019 (Lover), 2020 (Folklore), and 2022 (Midnights).
After a dispute over the ownership of Swift's back catalog, Swift has released four re-recorded albums—Fearless (Taylor's Version) (2021), Red (Taylor's Version) (2021), Speak Now (Taylor's Version) (2023), and 1989 (Taylor's Version) (2023)—all of which reached number one in the English-speaking countries: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Fearless (Taylor's Version) was also the first re-recorded album to top the Billboard 200.