What Is Taylor Swift’s Net Worth? How the Grammy-Winner Became the Richest Female Singer in the World

Taylor Swift made history as the first artist to join the billionaire club on music earnings alone

Taylor Swift at the 67th GRAMMY Awards on February 2, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.Credit : Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty

NEED TO KNOW

Taylor Swift became the richest female artist in the world in October 2024
She’s also the first musician to ever earn that level of wealth from her music alone
Her net worth is $1.6 billion, with $1.2 billion generated from her Eras tour and her music catalog

Taylor Swift isn’t just the wealthiest female musician on the planet — she’s the first musician to ever build that level of wealth solely on her music.

As of August 2025, the “Cruel Summer” singer has amassed an impressive net worth of $1.6 billion, per Forbes. Her highly successful Eras tour and impressive music catalog — especially the re-released albums in 2019 — have contributed to $1.2 billion of her wealth, while her real estate portfolio has reportedly contributed $110 million.

But earning riches from her songs doesn’t come close to owning them. In May 2025, Swift announced that she had regained control of her masters, six years after they were sold to Scooter Braun.

“This is my handwritten diary entries from my whole life,” she explained during an August 2025 interview on New Heights, a podcast hosted by her boyfriend, Travis Kelce and his brother, Jason Kelce. Swift recalled how emotional she became after she learned that the sale had gone through.

“I think you thought something was wrong,” she told Travis, who was with her when she got the call. “I was like, ‘I got my music back,’ and then just start absolutely heaving … this changed my life. I can’t believe it still.”

When it comes to breaking records and glass ceilings, Swift told TIME in December 2023 that she hopes her success will inspire people to invest more in women.

“What has existed since the dawn of time? A patriarchal society. What fuels a patriarchal society? Money, flow of revenue, the economy,” she said. “So actually, if we’re going to look at this in the most cynical way possible, feminine ideas becoming lucrative means that more female art will get made. It’s extremely heartening.”

From the whopping success of her musical career to her real estate portfolio, here’s everything to know about Taylor Swift’s net worth.

How much is Taylor Swift worth?

Taylor Swift performs at Wembley Stadium on August 15, 2024 during The Eras Tour in London, England.Gareth Cattermole/TAS24/Getty Images

According to Forbes, Swift is worth $1.6 billion, making her the richest female musician in the world as of August 2025. She has amassed $800 million from royalties and touring, and another estimated $600 million from her music catalog. She is also estimated to have $110 million in real estate.

The 14-time Grammy Award winner has been releasing music since she was 15 years old and has 11 original studio albums. In 2019, she began re-recording her older music after her previous label, Big Machine Records, sold the company — including the rights to Swift’s master recordings — to Braun.

So far, she has re-released four albums, starting with Fearless (Taylor’s Version) in April 2021. The album featured re-recordings of all the original songs and six new songs “from the vault” that weren’t in the original record.

The album went No. 1 and had the biggest opening week of any 2021 album at that point. The other three releases since — 2021’s Red (Taylor’s Version), 2023’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and 2023’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) — have all been met with equally massive success, in addition to the five new albums Swift has released in that time.

In March 2023, Swift embarked on her Eras tour, which will end in December 2024. The show spans decades of Swift’s work, resulting in a three-and-a-half-hour 44-song setlist across 10 studio albums, not including 2024’s The Tortured Poet Department.

What are Taylor Swift’s album and tour sales?

Taylor Swift performs at Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos on November 19, 2023 during The Eras Tour. TAS2023/Getty Images

Swift has broken several records with her tour and album sales. In December 2023, the Eras tour became the highest-grossing tour of all time, amassing over $1 billion, dethroning Elton John’s years-long Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, per Rolling Stone.

The tour’s ticket gross sales were larger than the two second-highest-grossing tours combined, per data from Pollster.

In addition to the tour, Swift released an accompanying concert film, which premiered in October 2023 and was the biggest concert film debut ever, bringing in $92.8 million at the box office opening weekend and $200 million globally the following weekend.

Swift’s album sales have also cemented her icon status, with the re-release of 1989 in November 2023 marking Swift’s biggest album debut of her career at the time. The album skyrocketed to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts and sold 1.6 million units in the U.S. (and over 3.5 million units worldwide), breaking the record Swift previously set for herself with the original release of the album in 2014 at 1.287 million units.

Swift beat her own record again with the release of 2024’s The Tortured Poet Department, which sold 2.61 million album units in its first week, according to Variety. The album spent 15 nonconsecutive weeks at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts, largely thanks to the numerous different versions Swift released weekly.

What has Taylor Swift donated to charity?

Taylor Swift performs at Wembley Stadium on June 23, 2024 during The Eras Tour in London, England.Gareth Cattermole/TAS24/Getty Images

The “Shake It Off” singer has quietly donated to various causes throughout her career, from contributing $100,000 to the family of a woman killed at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade in February 2024 to donating $1 million for natural disaster relief after storms in Tennessee in December 2023.

Throughout the Eras tour, Swift donated money to food banks in many of the cities in which her show stopped, including the Edinburgh Food Project and the Arizona Food Bank Network.

The singer has not only been generous with food banks across the world, but she’s also given large bonuses to every person who worked on her massive tour.

In August 2023, sources confirmed to PEOPLE that the pop star gave bonuses totaling over $50 million to every staff member of her team, from her dancers to riggers, sound technicians and catering.

What has Taylor Swift said about her worth?

Taylor Swift spotted at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on September 11, 2024 in Elmont, New York.Noam Galai/Getty Images

Swift has been open about how other stars taking a chance on her when she was starting her career afforded her the opportunity to grow as a singer, and how she wants to do the same for women globally.

In her December 2023 interview with TIME, Swift reflected on how a check from country star Kenny Chesney changed her life after she was unable to join him on tour when she was 17. The singer felt bad, so he sent her the money for her 18th birthday a few months later.

“It was for more money than I’d ever seen in my life,” Swift said. “I was able to pay my band bonuses. I was able to pay for my tour buses. I was able to fuel my dreams.”

Now, Swift hopes to inspire women to fight for their wealth in a patriarchal world.

“If we have to speak stereotypically about the feminine and the masculine, women have been fed the message that what we naturally gravitate toward … things [that] are more frivolous than the things that stereotypically gendered men gravitate toward, right?” she said.