Taylor Swift Becomes Youngest Pop Star Inducted to Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

Taylor Swift is having a moment with milestone after milestone, plus a fairytale wedding to Travis Kelce to boot, and now she’s adding a new recognition to her acclaim by being an inductee to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

According toVariety, Mark Ford, executive director of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, announced during the livestream that Swift, at 36, is the youngest performer to be named an inductee.

Hot off the success of The Eras Tour and the multi-platinum The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor Swift had Ford share her statement: “From the time I started writing songs as a child, I fixated on Nashville as the perfect place to be,” she shared excitedly.

To qualify to be considered for the top honors, an artist needs to have released at least one single with an impact that’s two decades old. Swift released her first single, “Tim McGraw,” in 2006 at age 16, which catapulting her to fame, with breakout hits that followed like “Love Story” and “Mean.”

Swift continued to describe how the music capital would go on to inform her career. “I wanted to learn with and from the best and get to immerse myself in a community of storytellers, and thankfully Nashville turned out to be exactly what I’d dreamed of. A town that validated and prioritized hard work, determination and imagination.

Where the writers show up to work every day even when the mysterious muses and the magic don’t. To be honored by this city I love so much is a beautiful thing, and I’m very grateful,” she shared about being an inductee in the contemporary songwriter/artist category for the Nashville institution.