At 36, Swift will be the youngest woman ever ushered into the SHOF.
Swift at the Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony in 2010.
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When Taylor Swift is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at its annual awards gala at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York on June 11, she’ll set a couple of records. At 36, she’ll be the youngest woman ever ushered into the SHOF, which inducted its first class of songwriters in 1970. She’ll also be the first person to graduate from winning the organization’s Hal David Starlight Award (an accolade for a songwriter who shows promise, which Swift won in 2010) to full membership status.
A songwriter with a notable catalog of songs qualifies for SHOF induction 20 years after his or her first commercial release of a song. Swift’s first single, “Tim McGraw,” arrived in June 2006, so she just made it this year.
