Song · Taylor Swift
“Blank Space” by Taylor Swift
From the album 1989 (2014)
“Blank Space” by Taylor Swift appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2024. It was first released in 2014 on the album 1989. Its best result is #316 on the WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024).
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Taylor Swift followed "Shake It Off" with "Blank Space", the second single from 1989, her fifth album, which Big Machine and Republic sent to American radio on November 10, 2014. She wrote it with producers Max Martin and Shellback, sparked by the media picking over her love life and what that did to her girl-next-door image, and her answer was a character: a flirt with a string of romances on the go.
The sound is sleek, sparse electropop, built from synths, hip-hop-leaning beats and stacked vocals, with Shellback adding guitars, bass and foot stomps and Serban Ghenea mixing it to a high gloss. It spent seven weeks atop the Hot 100, Joseph Kahn's video cast Swift as a jealous lover coming unglued and won 2 MTV Video Music Awards, and in 2023 she recut it as "Blank Space (Taylor's Version)".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 316 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
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