Song · Taylor Swift
“Love Story” by Taylor Swift
From the album Fearless (2008)
“Love Story” by Taylor Swift appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2024 and 2025. It was first released in 2008 on the album Fearless. Its best result is #418 on the WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,210 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Love Story" led Taylor Swift into Fearless, her second album, in 2008, and she wrote it on her own about a boy her family and friends couldn't stand. She borrowed Romeo and Juliet as the frame, then flipped Shakespeare's tragic finish so her troubled romance ends in a marriage proposal.
Swift produced it with Nathan Chapman as midtempo country pop dressed in banjo, fiddle, mandolin and guitar, with a key change after the bridge. Critics at the time liked the sound more than the literary borrowing, but it has since come to be seen as one of her signature songs. It reached number four on the Hot 100, became the first country song to top the Pop Songs chart and has sold more than 18 million copies. In 2021 she re-recorded it as "Love Story (Taylor's Version)".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 418 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 748 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
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