Every Taylor Swift Album, Ranked by Fans
Rank all 12 Taylor Swift studio albums head-to-head: 1989 vs Red, folklore vs evermore, Midnights vs reputation, through The Life of a Showgirl. Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
Size
Lover2019
Midnights2022
Tap a poster to make your pick. Crowd numbers appear after you choose.
How the community ranks them
Results appear here as people finish brackets. Each pick feeds the head-to-head numbers, so the first players decide where all 12 start.
How the Taylor Swift Albums bracket works
This Taylor Swift album ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Taylor Swift or Fearless? Speak Now or Red? — and after 11 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Comparing two albums is far easier than sorting 12 of them at once, which is why the finished list tends to survive a second look.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 12-slot size (Opening round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), with every one of the 12 albums in the field. 12 is not a power of two, so 4 of them draw a first-round bye — spread evenly across the draw rather than handed to whoever happens to land at the top of it. The draw is seeded: the same for everyone today, different tomorrow, and different again whenever you press New draw. You can also play it at 8 slots for a shorter or longer run.
11 picks, 4 rounds
- Opening round4 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 12 entrants
All 12 entrants are listed below, including Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now and Red.
- Taylor Swift2006Listen on Apple Music
- Fearless2008Listen on Apple Music
- Speak Now2010Listen on Apple Music
- Red2012Listen on Apple Music
- 19892014Listen on Apple Music
- reputation2017Listen on Apple Music
- Lover2019Listen on Apple Music
- folklore2020Listen on Apple Music
- evermore2020Listen on Apple Music
- Midnights2022Listen on Apple Music
- The Tortured Poets Department2024Listen on Apple Music
- The Life of a Showgirl2025Listen on Apple Music
Tier list instead?
Load all 12 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
Open the tier list makerMissing something?
Build your own Taylor Swift album bracket with exactly the entrants you want, then share the link.
Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Go with the one you would rather hear right now — instant reaction beats a considered take.
- The default run puts all 12 albums in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- Use undo the moment you regret a pick. One reflex answer in an early round can knock out a favourite before it gets going.
Questions people ask
How many albums are in the Taylor Swift Albums bracket?
The pool holds 12 albums. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 11 picks across 4 rounds: Opening round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. 4 entrants start with a first-round bye, spread evenly through the draw. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 12 slots.
Which albums are included?
Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, reputation, Lover, folklore, evermore, Midnights, The Tortured Poets Department and The Life of a Showgirl. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Taylor Swift Albums bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 11 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up, and your progress is saved on this device after every pick.
Is this a taylor swift albums tier list or a ranking?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other album grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 11 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two albums that never met. If you would rather place the albums into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 12 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community taylor swift albums ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the Taylor Swift Albums community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 12 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which albums are included?
Use the bracket maker: add your own albums, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 12 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.