Taylor Swift is known for lending her talents to other artists — but the pop star has also shared plenty of original songs to some of your favorite movies.
Swift has appeared in several films: Amsterdam, Cats, The Giver, Valentine’s Day, and Hannah Montana: The Movie – the latter as herself. She even made a cameo on the Fox series New Girl.
Along with appearing in those films, the superstar has written songs for a few of them as well: She crafted two tracks from the Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack, one for Valentine’s Day, and one for Cats. Swift has also penned tracks for films she didn’t appear in, including two for the original Hunger Games, one for Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts’ biopic One Chance, one for Fifty Shades Darker, one for her own documentary Miss Americana and one for Where the Crawdads Sing.
Blending her usual genres of country and pop, certain tracks were written directly for the films like “Beautiful Ghosts” and “Safe & Sound,” while others — like “Today Was a Fairytale” — she had in her vault and offered up for soundtracks. “I wrote that song last summer, and when this movie opportunity came about, I reached back into my pocket and thought, ‘I think this is perfect for the soundtrack. I hope it’s perfect for the soundtrack,’” she told The Tennessean back in 2010 of the Valentine’s Day song.
Of all the soundtrack cuts, “Today Was a Fairytale” and “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” with former One Direction member ZAYN reached the highest chart peaks of her soundtrack cuts, each hitting No. 2 on the Hot 100.
Read below for a ranking of the songs she’s written for movies. And for more Swift rankings, check out all of her title tracks ranked, and all of her track fives ranked plus her biggest Billboard hits.
The post “10 Songs Taylor Swift Wrote for Movies, Ranked (Critic’s Picks)” by Denise Warner was published on 11/26/2025 by www.billboard.com