Every Taylor Swift album, ranked from worst to best

Taylor Swift through the years Pedro Gomes/TAS24/Getty Images; Visual China Group/Getty Images; Marcus Piggott; Jason Kempin/Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Taylor Swift has released 12 distinct albums throughout her career (and rerecorded four of them). BI's resident Swift expert ranked them from worst to best, using a unique scoring method. "Folklore" took the top spot, while Swift's newest album, "The Life of a Showgirl," is ranked last. Taylor Swift's deluxe release, "The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore," is the newest addition to a prodigious discography that includes two decades' worth of music, a dozen No. 1 hits , and four album of the year winners at the Grammy Awards. These days, every album that Swift unleashes is all but guaranteed to find commercial success and fan-fueled fawning, but as with every musician, some albums are better than others.