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A Taylor Swift fan enters the world record book

A fan of the singer Taylor Swift from Pakistan broke the world record by becoming a part of the "Guinness" book of records for correctly identifying 34 songs of Taylor Swift based on a part of their lyrics in one minute.

Bilal Ilyas Jhandir, 20, had to listen to the lyrics being read aloud by a man without any accompanying music to identify each song.

The list included Swift's 50 most famous songs arranged in random order.

He managed to identify 34 songs in one minute, breaking the previous record of 27 held by Dan Simpson in 2019.

"I've been listening to Taylor Swift since my childhood. I'm a big fan of hers," Jhandir told Guinness. "I have listened to every song of hers. I can identify almost every one of her songs from the lyrics."

Jhandir previously set records for the most animals identified by animal sounds at 23 in one minute, and the most Justin Bieber songs identified by their lyrics at 29 in one minute, but he said his title of the latter is the one that gives him the most pride.