Last Updated on 12 September 2024

The following list is the Official Definitive List of the 280 best songs by Taylor Swift.

I found 43 different ranked lists online of “best Taylor Swift songs” and pulled them all into Excel and merged them all to get this definitive compilation.  See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including links to all 43 lists that were averaged.

1. All Too Well
2. Blank Space
3. All Too Well (10-min version)
4. Cruel Summer
5. Love Story
6. You Belong With Me
7. Style
8. Delicate
9. Anti-Hero
10. August
11. Cardigan
12. Wildest Dreams
13. I Knew You Were Trouble
14. Enchanted
15. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
16. Lover
17. Champagne Problems
18. Our Song
19. Fearless
20. Shake It Off
21. Fifteen
22. Red
23. Mine
24. Back to December
25. State of Grace
26. Clean
27. Getaway Car
28. New Romantics
29. Mean
30. Teardrops on My Guitar
31. Cornelia Street
32. Out of the Woods
33. Tim McGraw
34. Dear John
35. 22
36. New Year’s Day
37. Begin Again
38. Holy Ground
39. Willow
40. Betty
41. Long Live
42. Safe & Sound
43. The Last Great American Dynasty
44. Mirrorball
45. Exile
46. The Story of Us
47. Bad Blood
48. Nothing New
49. Sparks Fly
50. Ivy
51. The Archer
52. White Horse
53. Forever & Always
54. Should’ve Said No
55. Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve
56. Last Kiss
57. Ronan
58. Picture to Burn
59. Don’t Blame Me
60. Maroon
61. Everything Has Changed
62. Tis the Damn Season
63. You’re on Your Own, Kid
64. The 1
65. Invisible String
66. The Man
67. Marjorie
68. Treacherous
69. The Way I Loved You
70. Look What You Made Me Do
71. Cowboy Like Me
72. Seven
73. Karma
74. My Tears Ricochet
75. Speak Now
76. Dress
77. You Need to Calm Down
78. Ours
79. Is It Over Now?
80. Haunted
81. But Daddy I Love Him
82. I Did Something Bad
83. False God
84. So Long, London
85. Gold Rush
86. I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
87. Hey Stephen
88. This Is Me Trying
89. Daylight
90. Today Was a Fairytale
91. Soon You’ll Get Better
92. Lavender Haze
93. Call It What You Want
94. Gorgeous
95. …Ready for It?
96. Change
97. I Know Places
98. I Bet You Think About Me
99. The Last Time
100. Coney Island
101. All You Had to Do Was Stay
102. Mastermind
103. I Almost Do
104. ME!
105. I Don’t Wanna Live Forever
106. The Moment I Knew
107. Bigger Than the Whole Sky
108. Evermore
109. Eyes Open
110. Illicit Affairs
111. I’m Only Me When I’m With You
112. Mr. Perfectly Fine
113. You Are in Love
114. Better Man
115. The Tortured Poets Department
116. Better Than Revenge
117. Dancing with Our Hands Tied
118. The Black Dog
119. Never Grow Up
120. Death By a Thousand Cuts
121. Starlight
122. The Best Day
123. Down Bad
124. Jump Then Fall
125. Paper Rings
126. Tell Me Why
127. Wonderland
128. Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince
129. Mary’s Song (Oh My My)
130. Sad Beautiful Tragic
131. Sweeter Than Fiction
132. Snow on the Beach
133. Fortnight
134. Come Back…Be Here
135. How You Get the Girl
136. You’re Losing Me
137. Right Where You Left Me
138. This Love
139. Peace
140. King of My Heart
141. End Game
142. Happiness
143. Breathe
144. You’re Not Sorry
145. The Lucky One
146. The Other Side of the Door
147. Untouchable
148. Welcome to New York
149. Loml
150. Cold as You
151. Stay Stay Stay
152. I Wish You Would
153. Innocent
154. Stay Beautiful
155. Midnight Rain
156. No Body, No Crime
157. Afterglow
158. Tied Together With a Smile
159. Invisible
160. Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
161. Superstar
162. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
163. Come In With the Rain
164. Guilty as Sin?
165. The Great War
166. If This Was a Movie
167. I Think He Knows
168. The Lakes
169. I Forgot That You Existed
170. The Outside
171. Beautiful Eyes
172. Mad Woman
173. Superman
174. Girl at Home
175. Now That We Don’t Talk
176. Hoax
177. A Place in This World
178. A Perfectly Good Heart
179. It’s Nice to Have a Friend
180. Crazier
181. Tolerate It
182. This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
183. Florida!!!
184. Christmases When You Were Mine
185. Highway Don’t Care
186. Bejeweled
187. Epiphany
188. I Heart ?
189. Dorothea
190. Forever Winter
191. How Did It End?
192. The Prophecy
193. London Boy
194. So It Goes…
195. Hits Different
196. Christmas Tree Farm
197. The Very First Night
198. Long Story Short
199. Babe
200. The Manuscript
201. Two Is Better Than One
202. Christmas Must Be Something More
203. Only the Young
204. Beautiful Ghosts
205. Breathless
206. Bette Davis Eyes
207. I Can See You
208. You All Over Me
209. Sweet Nothing
210. Drops of Jupiter
211. Last Christmas
212. Bye Bye Baby
213. American Girl
214. Umbrella
215. Slut!
216. Say Don’t Go
217. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
218. Renegade
219. Message in a Bottle
220. Fresh Out the Slammer
221. I Want You Back
222. Labyrinth
223. Vigilante Shit
224. When Emma Falls In Love
225. Run
226. White Christmas
227. Both of Us
228. We Were Happy
229. It’s Time to Go
230. Closure
231. That’s When
232. The Alchemy
233. Santa Baby
234. Silent Night
235. Don’t You
236. I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
237. So High School
238. Carolina
239. Thug Story
240. Half of My Heart
241. The Albatross
242. The Bolter
243. Timeless
244. Question…?
245. I’d Lie
246. Nashville
247. Clara Bow
248. Suburban Legends
249. September
250. I Look in People’s Windows
251. High Infidelity
252. Sweet Escape
253. Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
254. Peter
255. Cassandra
256. Electric Touch
257. Castles Crumbling
258. Robin
259. Paris
260. Foolish One
261. Glitch
262. Dear Reader
263. I Hate It Here
264. Imgonnagetyouback
265. thanK you aIMee
266. Can’t Stop Loving You
267. Gasoline
268. Pour Some Sugar On Me
269. Big Star
270. Birch
271. Hold On
272. Macavity
273. Monologue Song
274. Riptide
275. White Blank Page
276. Permanent Marker
277. Doubt
278. All of the Girls You Loved Before
279. The Alcott
280. The Joker and the Queen