Taylor Swift’s Songs Written for Movies, Ranked (Critic’s Picks)
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Swift’s soundtrack credits include Cats , The Hunger Games , Where the Crawdads Sing and more.
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.
“Today Was a Fairytale” and “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” with former One Direction member ZAYN both reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 , but her highest peak on the chart with a soundtrack cut came in the summer of 2026, when “I Knew It, I Knew You” — created for the Toy Story 5 end credits — debuted at No. 1. In honor of her ever-expanding catalog of music written for the big screen, keep reading to see Billboard ‘s ranking of all the songs Swift has made for movies below.