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With 34 trophies nether her reddish scarf, Taylor Swift presently holds the grounds arsenic the creator with the astir American Music Awards. Relive her astir memorable AMAs moments up of this year's show.
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Ever since making her debut astatine the yearly euphony awards amusement 15 years ago, Taylor Swift has amassed rather the AMAs collection. In fact, the popular prima is the astir decorated creator with a full of 34 wins, including six Artist of the Year trophies and a Dick Clark Award for Excellence. She is besides the first—and presently only—woman to beryllium awarded the AMA for Artist of the Decade.
Now, with six nominations heading into this year's ceremonial connected Nov. 20, Taylor is looking to adhd to her already-impressive collection.
But, as the vocalist pointed retired during the 2009 AMAs, "Music has ne'er been yet astir competition."
Over the years, Taylor has besides delivered a fig of enchanting performances astatine the show. Whether she's mounting the signifier ablaze during a pyrotechnics-filled rendition of "Blank Space" oregon singing a medley of her top hits alongside pals Camila Cabello and Halsey, Taylor has proven that she's perfectly fearless erstwhile it comes to dominating the stage.
Keep scrolling to relive her astir memorable moments astatine the AMAs.
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First Appearance
Taylor Swift archetypal graced the American Music Awards signifier during the 2007 ceremony, presenting an grant with rapper Fabulous.
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Musical Debut
The vocalist made her philharmonic debut at the AMAs with a moving show of her 2008 deed "White Horse."
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First Win
Taylor won her precise archetypal AMA during the 2008 show, beating retired Carrie Underwood and Reba McEntire for the rubric of Favorite Country Female Artist.
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Party with Miley
There was plentifulness of partying astatine the 2008 AMAs! Fresh disconnected her first-ever win, the then-18-year-old also celebrated Miley Cyrus' 16th day backstage alongside the Hannah Montana alum's mom Tish Cyrus, Jordin Sparks, Julianne Hough and Ashley Tisdale.
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Artist of the Year
Taylor couldn't be the 2009 ceremonial successful idiosyncratic owed to her Fearless Tour but she ended up taking location 5 awards, including Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist, Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist and Artist of the Year.
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Going Back
In 2010, the popular prima sang a chilling rendition of her Speak Now smash, "Back to December." To headdress it each disconnected the performance, Taylor gave a saccharine motion to OneRepublic's "Apologize" by interpolating its chorus into her song.
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Country Strong
Taylor was named Favorite Country Female Artist for the 3rd twelvemonth successful a enactment astatine the 2010 ceremony.
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Girl Gang
Even earlier her 1989 era, Taylor was already choky with her squad. At the 2011 AMAs, she was spotted having immoderate amusive with pals Selena Gomez, Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry in the audience.
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Armful of Awards
Taylor didn't person a manus to spare aft tying Adele for astir wins of the night during the 2011 ceremony, juggling to transportation 3 trophies arsenic she walked into the property country backstage.
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No Troubles Here
At the 2012 ceremony, Taylor stole the amusement with a rendition of "I Knew You Were Trouble." The philharmonic fig featured a mid-performance wardrobe alteration from a agelong achromatic gown to red-and-gold fig with a achromatic taffeta skirt.
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Another One
Seeing a inclination here? Taylor won her 5th consecutive grant for Favorite Country Female Artist successful 2012.
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Big Winner
Taylor walked distant with each but 1 of the 5 awards she was nominated for astatine the 2013 AMAs. With 4 caller trophies successful hand, she was the night's biggest winner.
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Incredible Things
The singer kicked disconnected the 2014 AMAs with an explosive show of "Blank Space" implicit with pyrotechnics and aggregate acceptable changes.
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Squad Up
There was nary atrocious humor successful the assemblage astatine the 2015 amusement arsenic Taylor danced with her squad of friends, including Karlie Kloss and Lorde.
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Excellent Night
Taylor was honored with the first-ever Dick Clark Award for Excellence astatine the 2015 show.
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Mirrorball
After a three-year hiatus from the AMAs, Taylor made her sparkling instrumentality successful 2018 by rocking a metallic Balmain design.
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Light Me Up
She opened the 2018 amusement with a moody show of "I Did Something Bad" disconnected her Reputation album.
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End Game
At the extremity of the night, Taylor added 4 caller awards—including Tour of the Year and Artist of the Year—to her already-massive AMAs collection.
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Making History
In 2019, Taylor became the pistillate to triumph the AMA for Artist of the Decade. To commemorate the occasion, she performed a medley of her hits that included "Love Story," "The Man" and "Lover."
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Can't Stop, Won't Stop
She was besides joined onstage by Camila Cabello and Halsey during her rendition of "Shake It Off."
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Most Decorated
After nabbing six statuettes at the 2019 ceremony, Taylor became astir awarded creator successful the AMAs past with a full of 29 wins.
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Hard astatine Work
Amid the pandemic, Taylor skipped attending the 2020 ceremonial in-person and chose to accept her 3 awards—including different Artist of the Year—from the comfortableness of her signaling space. "The crushed I'm not determination contiguous is I'm really re-recording of each my aged music, successful the workplace wherever we primitively recorded it," she said during her acceptance speech. " It's been amazing."
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Taylor Forever
The creator extended her AMAs grounds erstwhile she (virtually) collected 2 much awards astatine the 2021 ceremony, bringing her wide full to 34 wins.
