What has she been doing since ‘1989’?

Swift might not have released the album her fans so desperately want to hear yet, but that doesn’t mean she’s been twiddling her thumbs. She played a handful of dates in the States and Australia, including a performance at the Forumla One Grand Prix in Austin, Texas in October and an appearance at the Grammys in February.

At that ceremony, she also picked up three awards – Best Music Video for ‘Bad Blood’, Best Pop Vocal Album for ‘1989’ and Album Of The Year, also for ‘1989’. The latter award made her the first woman to ever win Album Of The Year twice. A couple of days after the Grammys, she added to her awards haul with the NME Award for Best International Solo Artist.

She hadn’t moved on from ‘1989’ completely in 2016. At the beginning of the year she released a video for ‘Out Of The Woods‘ and, a few months later, followed it with one for ‘New Romantics’.

Preceding her alleged work with Drake, Swift appeared in a commercial for Apple Music rapping along to Drake while running on a treadmill. The previous year, the singer had lobbied the company to pay artists better for allowing them to stream their music. She continued to try and help her fellow musicians in 2016 by petitioning for digital copyright reform alongside Sir Paul McCartney and Trent Reznor, amongst others.

She did good in other ways, too. In August, she donated $1m to the Louisiana flood relief after the state was hit by devastating flooding. She also gave Kesha $250,000 to help her in her legal battle against producer Dr. Luke, who she was suing for “mental manipulation, emotional abuse and sexual assault.” Swift also donated $5,000 to a fan’s family after they died in a car crash.

It wasn’t a completely Swift-less year in terms of music, either. It was revealed after her split with Calvin Harris that she had written his collaboration with Rihanna, ‘This Is What We Came For’, and was originally credited as Nils Sjoberg, an alleged Swedish songwriter. She was also revealed to be the secret songwriter behind country hit ‘Better Man’ by fellow Grammy winners Little Big Town.

In December, it was also revealed that she had worked with former One Direction member Zayn Malik on the theme song for film Fifty Shades Darker, the Fifty Shades Of Grey sequel. ‘I Don’t Wanna Live Forever‘ was released on December 9.

It was confirmed in November that the star would be the subject of her own TV show, Taylor Swift Now. Part of AT&T’s DirecTV NOW streaming service, it will be made up of “unique and never seen videos”.  It was also announced she had signed a deal with Glu Mobile to work on and release her first mobile game. The company has previously released games for the likes of Kim Kardashian and Katy Perry, and recently signed a deal with chef Gordon Ramsey. No wonder she came out on top of Forbes’ highest paid celebrities list in 2016.

Not everything was great for Swift this year, though. She had to contend with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian releasing footage of West’s phone call with her where he seeks her approval for his controversial “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Cos I made that bitch famous” line from the track ‘Famous’. There was also the ongoing legal case against a radio DJ who Swift claims to have groped her at a meet-and-greet in 2013.