Jack Antonoff wins as a composer of the year Ascap 2025: his best successes with and without Taylor Swift

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Jack Antonoff is one of those names that you may not see on the cover of the albums, but you have surely heard his signature in the music that has marked this generation. This week was appointed Ascap Pop Music Songwriter of the Yeara recognition that does not surprise anyone who has closely followed his career as a producer, composer and artist.

Although its best known association is with Taylor Swift – a collaboration that has defined the pop of pop of recent years – its influence goes much further. But let’s start there.

Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff: an alliance that changed the industry

It all started in 2013 with the song “Sweeter Than Fiction”, included in the film band of the film One Chance. But the true breakdown came a year later, with 1989 (2014), the album with which Taylor left the country to embrace pop. Antonoff co -wrote and copdodujo topics such as “Out of the Woods” and “I Wish You Would”, marking the beginning of a creative pair that still gives what to talk about.

Since then, they have worked together on almost all Swift albums: Reputation (2017), LOVER (2019), Folklore and Evermore (2020), Midnights (2022), and more recently in The tortured poets department (2024), where Antonoff co-written and produced songs like “Anti-Hero”, “Fortnight”, “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart”, “Karma” and “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) (FROM THE VAULT)”. All were part of the most reproduced catalog of 2024 and are among the most listened to songs on digital platforms globally.

Together, they have won multiple Grammy awards, including the album of the year by Folkloreand have redefined what can be a pop project: introspective, intimate, but massive at the same time. Antonoff not only adapted Taylor’s sound to new territories, he also helped the industry begin to value the narrative, texture and authorship in an era dominated by algorithms.

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Beyond Swift: The other voices that have sounded with Antonoff

Although Taylor Swift is his most constant collaborator, Antonoff’s versatility has been deployed on multiple fronts.

• Lorde He trusted him for his second album Melodrama (2017), considered a masterpiece by critics and fans. Together they produced a collection of hymns about love, party and disenchantment with a sensitivity that defined millennial pop. They also worked at Power Solar (2021), where they explored more acoustic and environmental sounds.

• King’s wool He found a producer in Antonoff capable of translating his lyrical and cinematographic universe. Albums like Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019), Chemtrails Over The Country Club (2021) and Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023) They carry their seal. Nfr! He was nominated for album of the year in the Grammy, and is considered one of the most sophisticated wool works.

• St. Vincent collaborated with him in MASSEDUCTION (2017), a bold album, full of bright synths and conceptual layers that was also awarded the Grammy for the best alternative music album.

• The 1975 He added Antonoff as a producer on his album Being Funny in A Foreign Language (2022), where he helped polish a more classic sound, between the soft rock and eighties pop.

• Clairo, Florence + The Machine, Kevin Abstract and Bleachers – his own project as a soloist – they are also part of the musical ecosystem that he has molded, always combining lyrical vulnerability with sound ambition.