Taylor Swift's Official biggest non-singles in the UK revealed

Where Taylor Swift is concerned, the singles only tell half the story.

While the Official Top 40 biggest songs from Taylor on the Official Singles Chart is full of her blockbuster mega-pop anthems (Shake It Off, Anti-Hero) and some of her more underlooked commercial releases (Style, Out of the Woods), we thought it was time to really dive into Tay's labyrinthine discography and pull out her most popular tracks that have never been issued as singles.

Now, compiled here for the first time and according to Official Charts Company data, we've gathered Taylor's Top 20 Official biggest non-singles in the UK together in one place. 

For all the eagle-eyed fans out there, we're classing 'non-singles' here as tracks that were never released as commercial singles (so Cruel Summer's retrospective single release last year discounts it here), and tracks that didn't receive a music video (case in point: Karma from Midnights is classed as a single due to its remix with Ice Spice).

10. You're On Your Own, Kid

Released: 2022
Album: Midnights
Total UK chart units: 439,000

The emotional centrepiece of Midnights is a quietly devastating paean to everything Taylor gave away and sacrificed for her art...but it leaves us with the bittersweet question of whether it's all been worth it. The title of the song seems to suggest its own author believes that, no matter what happens, "you're on your own kid, you always have been."

9. The 1

Released: 2020
Album: folklore
Total UK chart units: 482,000

The 1 is the perfect opening to folklore, beginning to spin a web of illusion that blurs fact with fiction as Taylor wonders about the life of an ex-lover (I mean, what else was there to do during lockdown?). A sparse acoustic beat is flourished with violins and sneaky synths, but this is not just folktronica - the melodies here are as big and bright as anything on 1989.

8. Champagne Problems

Released: 2020
Album: evermore
Total UK chart units: 439,000

Another fictionalised narrative from the mythological forest of folklore and evermore, Champagne Problems tells the story of a woman who scandalises her family by turning down a marriage proposal on Christmas Eve. Yet more evidence that evermore is, in fact, a canonical Christmas record! 

7. Paper Rings

Released: 2019
Album: Lover
Total UK chart units: 499,000

A worrying detour into pop-punk, following Cruel Summer's deserved elevation into proper single status last year, the love-sick Paper Rings is now Lover's biggest non-single.

6. Getaway Car

Released: 2017
Album: reputation
Total UK chart units: 542,000

Getaway Car is the most intriguing song on reputation, given that on her seventh album, Taylor (willingly) eschews her diaristic lyricism for intense flashes of imagery; red lips, tight dresses and whiskey on ice. Getaway Car, then, swerves away onto more fertile ground for Taylor, in this dramatic and theatrical tale of two con artists on the run.

If Cruel Summer can get a retrospective single release...there's no excuse, Blondie!!!!

5. Gorgeous

Released: 2017
Album: reputation
Total UK chart units: 551,000

By far the most 80s-influenced song on rep, with an edge and bounce that recalls New Order and Human League, Gorgeous is a gelatinous electro-pop tune that starts to strip down the barriers and hard edges Taylor covers herself in during reputation's first half.

4. Lavender Haze

Released: 2022
Album: Midnights
Total UK chart units: 654,000

There was an air of mystery over Midnights when it first debuted. Namely, what would it sound like? Would it carry on the lo-fi sonics of folklore and evermore, go back to the tried-and-tested pop formula of 1989...or try something new? Turns out in the album's opening track, it's kind of all three. 

3. August

Released: 2020
Album: folklore
Total UK chart units: 684,000

One of Taylor's greatest accomplishments as a lyricist and storyteller, August is the second song in a connective trilogy that runs throughout folklore, following the breakdown of a relationship one fateful summer. For the woman who once compared falling in love to a fairytale, August sees Taylor muddying the emotional waters, seeing the affair from the eyes of the other woman, and offering a devastating look into a un-reciprocated love that slips through someone's fingers. 'Will you call when you're back at school?' She wonders in one of her most cutting couplets. 'I remember thinking I had you.' 

2. Exile

Released: 2020
Album: folklore
Total UK chart units: 738,000

Taylor joined forces with vocalist Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver) for this very bracing (and, at the time of its release, very relevant!!) tale of feeling abandoned and outcast following the breakdown of a relationship.

In the years since its debut, Exile has not only become one of the most beloved tracks from folklore, making its absence from The Eras Tour setlist a compelling choice.

1. Don't Blame Me

Released: 2017
Album: reputation
Total UK chart units: 858,000

One thing that is never discussed enough about reputation; it is a concept album of two halves. The first - mostly produced by Max Martin and Shellback - is a hard-edged electronic pop record that sees Taylor lean into maximalist pop to complete a villainous heel turn, while the second half - mostly produced by Jack Antonoff - peels away the trap beats and air-tunnel synths to reveal the beating heart of the record; reputation is, at its core, an album about falling in love. 

Don't Blame Me is one of the first tracks on reputation's first half where the veneer begins to crack. Backed by what sounds like a choir of cyborg angels, Don't Blame Me is perhaps the most anthemic cut from reputation (which is really saying something) and a reminder of just how fruitful Taylor's partnership with Max Martin was.