--- title: Taylor Swift Now Has 50 Million Instagram Followers description: She beat Beyonce and Kim Kardashian canonical: https://time.com/4067751/taylor-swift-instagram-followers/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-09T11:07:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:47.088Z og:title: Taylor Swift Now Has 50 Million Instagram Followers og:description: She beat Beyonce and Kim Kardashian og:url: https://time.com/4067751/taylor-swift-instagram-followers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1278278f912979a2/69886793428a9ee3fdccf8c8/taylor-swift3.jpg?branch=production&width=615&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 615 og:image:height: 346 og:image:alt: BuzzFoto Celebrity Sightings In New York √ê October 07, 2015 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taylor Swift Now Has 50 Million Instagram Followers twitter:description: She beat Beyonce and Kim Kardashian twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1278278f912979a2/69886793428a9ee3fdccf8c8/taylor-swift3.jpg?branch=production&width=615&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Taylor Swift Now Has 50 Million Instagram Followers > Sponsored content. 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Josiah Kamau—Getty Images by [Naja Rayne/People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Naja Rayne/People Contributor Oct 9, 2015 11:07 AM UTC Move over [Kim Kardashian West](http://www.people.com/people/kim%5Fkardashian/) and [Beyoncé](http://www.people.com/people/beyonce%5Fknowles/), [Taylor Swift](http://www.people.com/people/taylor%5Fswift) is taking the throne. The “Bad Blood” singer reached an Instagram milestone on Thursday when her follower count checked in at over 50 million – beating out Kardashian and Beyoncé who have 48.4 and 47.5 million followers, respectively. “50 million followers!! Thanks so much guys. I’m pretty sure this is just because I have cute cats thought,” Swift, 25, captioned a [screenshot](https://instagram.com/p/8l19JcjvEo/?taken-by=taylorswift) of her page. Her Instagram reign comes just days after the pop star talked about taking a [break from the spotlight](http://www.people.com/article/taylor-swift-taking-break-after-1989-nme-interview) in her cover story with _NME_ magazine. “I think I should take some time off,” Swift said. “I think people might need a break from me. I’m going to … I don’t know. Hang out with my friends. Write new music. Maybe not write new music. I don’t know.” Turns out, maybe the world isn’t ready for a break from you just yet Taylor. _This_ [_article_ ](http://www.people.com/article/taylor-swift-reigning-instagram-queen-50-million-followers)_originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4067751/taylor-swift-instagram-followers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4067751/taylor-swift-instagram-followers/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift Now Has 50 Million Instagram Followers","datePublished":"2015-10-09T11:07:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:47.088Z","description":"She beat Beyonce and Kim Kardashian","url":"https://time.com/4067751/taylor-swift-instagram-followers/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1278278f912979a2/69886793428a9ee3fdccf8c8/taylor-swift3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Naja Rayne/People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1278278f912979a2/69886793428a9ee3fdccf8c8/taylor-swift3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"BuzzFoto Celebrity Sightings In New York √ê October 07, 2015","caption":"BuzzFoto Celebrity Sightings In New York √ê October 07, 2015","creditText":"Josiah Kamau—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4067751/taylor-swift-instagram-followers/","name":"Taylor Swift Now Has 50 Million Instagram Followers"}}]}] ```