{"id":635076,"date":"2026-06-12T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635076\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:41:09","slug":"taylor-swift-singer-tearfully-thanks-family-as-she-makes-history-joining-songwriters-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635076\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift: Singer tearfully thanks family as she makes history joining Songwriters Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

The honour follows a glittering few years for pop superstar, who broke her own sales record<\/a> with her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, in October.<\/p>\n

Swift is the second-youngest inductee after Stevie Wonder, who was 33 when he joined, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Her key tracks to be recognised by the Hall of Fame include All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version), Blank Space, Anti-Hero, Love Story and The Last Great American Dynasty.<\/p>\n

She was joined by her fiance, NFL star Travis Kelce, as rumours swirl that they will get married next month.<\/p>\n

Other inductees joining this year included Alanis Morissette, Kenny Loggins and Kiss stars Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley.<\/p>\n

Also joining were Christopher “Tricky” Stewart, who has written for Beyonc\u00e9, Rihanna and Katy Perry; Walter Afanasieff, known for his work with Mariah Carey; Terry Britten, whose songs include Tina Turner’s We Don’t Need Another Hero; and Graham Lyle, who was behind Turner’s What’s Love Got to Do with It?<\/p>\n

Founded in 1969, the Songwriters Hall of Fame annually honours those “whose work represents a spectrum of the most beloved songs from the world’s popular music songbook”.<\/p>\n

Fewer than 500 people have been invited in over the last 50 years.<\/p>\n

Swift is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having made 12 studio albums and four re-recorded “Taylor’s Versions” albums.<\/p>\n

She is also the first performer to have won the Grammy Award for album of the year four times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The honour follows a glittering few years for pop superstar, who broke her own sales record with her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-635076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}