Taylor Alison Swift
(born December 13, 1989) is an American country pop singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress. In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw", which peaked at number six on the Billboard
country charts. Later in October 2006, she released her self-titled debut album, which produced five hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and was certified 3× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA. The New York Times
described Swift as "one of pop's finest songwriters, country’s foremost pragmatist and more in touch with her inner life than most adults". [1]
According to Nielsen SoundScan, Swift was the biggest selling artist of 2008 in America with combined sales of more than four million albums. Swift's Fearless
and her self-titled album finished 2008 at number three and number six respectively, with sales of 2.1 and 1.5 million. [2] She was the first artist in the history of Nielsen SoundScan to have two different albums in the Top 10 on the year end album chart.
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Early life
Swift was born in the city of
Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Scott, a
stock broker, and Andrea Swift, a
homemaker. She has a younger brother, Austin.
[8] When she was in fourth grade, Swift won a national poetry contest with a three-page poem entitled "Monster In My Closet".
[9] [10] At the age of ten, Swift began writing songs and singing at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs around her hometown. During one summer, Swift devoted herself to writing a 350-page (unpublished) novel.
[11] She was a member of Kirk Cremer's
SNL-inspired kid's sketch comedy group, TheatreKids Live!, where she was a natural comedic talent. After seeing her
karaoke performance at one of the cast parties, it was Cremer's mother who first suggested that Swift seemed more of a natural to pursue a career in country music, rather than theatrical performing. Cremer soon leased space at a local mall and began to showcase his young protégée in weeknight performances of country songs with karaoke backing tracks. Emboldened by her performances and growing audiences, she began to perform in other local open mike and karaoke nights. Her first major show was a well-received performance at the
Bloomsburg Fair, arranged by local performer Pat Garrett.
[12]
Songwriting interest
Swift first learned to play guitar from a computer repair man who showed her how to play 3 chords. Right after learning those three chords she wrote her first song called "Lucky you". She began writing songs regularly and used it as outlet to help her with her pain from not fitting in at school. Other kids would react badly to her so she wrote songs about them.
Early work
Swift's greatest musical influence is
Shania Twain.
[13] Her other influences include her grandmother,
LeAnn Rimes,
Tina Turner and
Dolly Parton. Although her grandmother was a professional
opera singer,
[14] Taylor's tastes always ran more toward country and she developed a love for
Patsy Cline and
Dolly Parton at an early age.
[15] She also credits the
Dixie Chicks and
Shania Twain for demonstrating how much impact can be made by "stretching boundaries".
[16] At age 11, Swift made her first trip to
Nashville hoping to obtain a record deal by distributing a demo tape of her singing with karaoke songs. She gave a copy to every label in town.
[17] Swift faced rejection, not just from record labels, but also from her peers.
[18] After Swift returned to
Pennsylvania, she was asked to sing at the
U.S. Open tennis tournament; her rendition of the
national anthem received a lot of attention.
[19] Swift started writing songs and playing 12-string guitar when she was 12. Swift began to regularly visit Nashville and wrote songs with local songwriters. By the time she was 14, her family decided to move to an outlying Nashville suburb.
[20] When Swift was fifteen, she rejected a development deal with
RCA Records because the company wanted to keep her on a development deal
[21] Swift then performed at Nashville's songwriters' venue,
The Bluebird Café, catching the attention of Scott Borchetta
[22] who signed her to his newly-formed record label,
Big Machine Records. She also became the youngest staff songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Tree publishing house.
[23]
Music career
2006–2008: Taylor Swift
Swift's first single, "
Tim McGraw", was released to radio in mid-2006 and reached number 6 on
''Billboards Hot Country Songs chart during the week of January 27, 2007.
[24] Swift said, "I wrote the song in my freshman year of high school. I was dating a guy who was about to go off to college. I knew we were going to break up so I started thinking of all the things that I knew would remind him of me. Surprisingly, the first thing that came to mind was that my favorite country artist is Tim McGraw."
Her self-titled debut album
Taylor Swift was released on October 24, 2006. [25] Swift wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the album, which debuted at number 19 on the
Billboard
200 and sold 39,000 copies during its first week. [26] It later peaked at number one at Billboard Top Country Albums and number five on the
Billboard'' 200.
[27] It also spent eight consecutive weeks at the top of the
Top Country Albums charts
[28] and remained at the top for 24 out of 91 weeks.
[29] The only other country artists this decade to achieve the number-one sales position for 20 weeks or more are
The Dixie Chicks and
Carrie Underwood.
[30] As of November 2008, Taylor Swift has sold over three million copies and 7.5 million single downloads.
[31]
Swift has surpassed the 200 million mark for music streams on
MySpace. She is currently ranked in the Top 10 for the most MySpace visits for all genres of music, and is MySpace's current top-ranking Country artist.
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[33] The music video for "Tim McGraw" set a record by appearing for 30 consecutive weeks on
GAC's fan-voted weekly Top 20 music countdown show, and reached number one on
CMT's video charts. The video also won Swift an award for Breakthrough Video of the Year at the 2007 CMT Music Awards.
[34] Her pursuit of country music stardom was the subject of "GAC Short Cuts", a part-documentary, part-music-video series airing since the summer of 2006 on the country music channel.
[35] On May 15, 2007, Swift performed "Tim McGraw" at the
Academy of Country Music Awards. She sang the song to
Tim McGraw in the audience, and introduced herself for the first time to him. Swift has been an opening act for Tim McGraw and
Faith Hill on their
Soul2Soul 2007 tour. She has opened in the past for
George Strait,
Brad Paisley and
Rascal Flatts as well.
[36]
On August 21, 2007, Swift performed live on the season finale of
America's Got Talent
.
[37] The second single from the
Taylor Swift
album, "
Teardrops on My Guitar", was released February 24, 2007. The song originally made its peak positions in mid-2007, peaking at #2 on ''Billboard
s Hot Country Songs chart and #33 on the
Billboard'' Hot 100. The song was re-released to the Hot 100 and Pop 100 in late 2007 with a
pop remix that brought "Teardrops on My Guitar" to #13 on the Hot 100 and #11 on the Pop 100. In October 2007, Swift's songwriting peers at the Nashville Songwriters Association International honored her with their Songwriter/Artist of the Year Award, making her the youngest artist ever to win the award.
[38]
On November 7, 2007, Swift won the 2007
CMA Horizon Award and also performed "Our Song," the third single from her album, which would go on to become her first #1 song the week of December 22, 2007, where it leaped up from the #6 spot. This was the biggest jump to Number One since January 1998, when
Tim McGraw's "
Just to See You Smile", also jumped from #6 to #1.
[39] "Our Song" spent six weeks at #1 on the Country charts and also peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #24 on the Billboard Pop 100. Swift also recorded a holiday album,
Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection,
that was released October 16, 2007, exclusively available at
Target stores. The album, which was not as successful as her self-titled debut, featured both holiday classics such as "
Last Christmas" and original songs written by Swift. Swift was nominated for a 2008
Grammy Award in the category of Best New Artist, but lost to
Amy Winehouse. Swift's successful single, "
Picture to Burn" was the fourth single from her debut album. The song debuted early in 2008 and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Country Chart in the spring of 2008.
Big Machine Records announced the release of "
Should've Said No" on Monday, May 19. The song is the fifth and final single from Swift's debut album. She performed it on the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards.
[40] The performance started off with her dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and jeans, but soon after a short black halter dress was revealed. In the last minute of the song, she went backstage to perform the final verse under a cascading waterfall. Swift had wanted to do that performance on stage with the water and the change of clothes since she was ten years old.
[41] "Should've Said No" became her second Number One single for the chart dated August 23, 2008. In June 2008, at the CMA Music Festival held in Nashville, Swift signed autographs for nearly eight straight hours. It was the longest autograph-signing session since
Garth Brooks' 23-hour marathon in 1996.
[42] In Summer 2008, Swift released
Beautiful Eyes
, an EP sold exclusively at
Wal-Mart.
[43] In its first week of release, the album sold 45,000 copies, debuting at #1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart and #9 on the Billboard 200. With her self-titled debut album at #2 the same week, Swift became the first artist to hold the Top 2 positions of the Top Country Albums chart since LeAnn Rimes did so in 1997.
[44] Swift plays a custom-made
Taylor acoustic guitar made of
koa wood.
[45]
2008–present: Fearless
Swift's latest studio album,
Fearless
, was released in the United States on November 11, 2008.
[46] The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart. Its sales of 592,304 was the highest debut of any country artists in 2008. This is also the largest opening U.S. sales week in 2008 by a female artist in all genres of music, and the fourth biggest overall behind
Lil Wayne,
AC/DC and
Coldplay.
[47] Its lead single "
Love Story" became a hit on both the country and pop charts. During the first week of release, more than 129,000 of Swift's sales were sold digitally. This gives Swift the best online start for any country album in history.
[48] It also makes Swift the fourth biggest week for a digital album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking them in 2004.
[49] Through its eighth week of release,
Fearless
has sold more than 338,467 paid downloads, making it the bestselling country album in digital history. In second place is Swift's debut
Taylor Swift
with sales of 236,046 downloads as of April 18, 2009.
[50]
In its debut week, seven songs in total on
Fearless
were charted on Billboard Hot 100, tying Swift with
Hannah Montana for the most by a female artist in a single week. With "
White Horse" charted at #13, this gave Swift her sixth top 20 debut of 2008, a calendar year record for any artist in the history of the Billboard Hot 100. Of the 13 tracks on
Fearless
, 11 have already spent time on the Hot 100.
"Change", a song from the album, was selected as part of a soundtrack supporting Team USA's efforts in the
2008 Summer Olympics.
[51] The song was also featured as part of the soundtrack of
NBC's broadcast package of the Olympics. She also released the lead single from the album, "
Love Story", on September 12, 2008. The song is accompanied by a music video that is based on
Romeo and Juliet
. The song has reached number 2 on iTunes Store Top Downloaded Songs and number four on the Billboard Hot 100. It is also called as Taylor Swift's
signature song. Fifteen weeks after being added to pop radio, "
Love Story" also became the first country crossover recording to hit number one on the Nielsen BDS CHR/Top 40 chart in the 16-year-history of list, as well as number one on the Mediabase Top 40 Chart.
[52] The second single from
Fearless
, "
White Horse", was released on December 8, 2008. The music video for the song premiered on
CMT on February 7, 2009. Though it missed the #1 spot on Billboard's
Hot Country Songs as of the week April 11, 2009, "
White Horse" claimed the #1 spot atop the USA Today/Country Aircheck chart (powered by Mediabase) in that week.
[53] "Forever & Always", another song from the album, was based on Swift's relationship with singer
Joe Jonas.
[54]
Swift is Billboard's Top Country Artist and Hot Country Songwriter of 2008; she is also country music's best-selling artist of 2008.
[55] Swift ranked seventh on Nielsen SoundScan Canada's top-10 selling artists across all genres in 2008.
Fearless
and
Taylor Swift
took the #1 and #2 slots on 2008 Year-End Canadian Country Albums Chart.
[56] Swift sang the
Star-Spangled Banner at game three of the
World Series in
Philadelphia on October 25, 2008. On January 10, 2009, Swift made her first musical guest appearance on
Saturday Night Live
, making her the youngest country singer to appear as a musical guest on the show in its 33-year run.
[57] [58] Swift's show achieved SNL’s highest adult 18-49 rating and overall viewer total since the November election (in 2008). It was tied for the #7 rating of that week among all broadcast and cable entertainment programs on all networks and outscored all its telecasts of last season in 18-49 and total viewers.
[59]
On February 8, 2009, Swift performed her song "Fifteen" with
Miley Cyrus at the
51st Grammy Awards. Since the release of Swift's second album,
Fearless
, she has released one new song "
Crazier" for the
soundtrack of the feature film
Hannah Montana: The Movie
. At the 44th Annual
Academy of Country Music Awards, Swift picked up
Album of the Year
honors as a performer and producer for
Fearless
. She is the youngest artist in history to win
Album Of The Year
award. Swift was also awarded the Academy's
Crystal Milestone Award
, given for Outstanding Achievement in Country Music. The Academy lauded her for career achievements including selling more albums in 2008 than any other artist in any genre of music, the breakthrough success of her debut album (which spawned five Top 10 hits, more than any in history for a female artist's debut CD), and the worldwide crossover success of her #1 single "
Love Story". The Academy also cited Swift's contribution to helping country music attract a younger audience.
[60]
As of late April 2009, Swift has sold more than 14 million downloads, as well as three Gold Mobile Ringtones.
[61] In June 2009, Swift performed "Thug Story" with
T-Pain at the
CMT Music Awards. She went on to win two awards for
Female Video of the Year
and
Video of the Year
.
[62]
On July 14, 2009, it was confirmed Swift would perform at the 2009
MTV Video Music Awards. "I'm so excited that MTV and the VMAs have invited me to perform, because I think this year's show will be unlike anything they've ever done!" Swift says. "I love incorporating theatrics into my performances, and the VMAs have always allowed artists to run with that," Swift says. "MTV has been so good to me, and I could not be more excited about this year's VMAs." This will be Swift's first ever performance on the VMAs. The show airs September 13 on MTV, with
British comedian Russell Brand hosting for the second year in a row.
[63] In addition to having three of her songs featured, Swift will appear as a playable character in
Band Hero.
[64]
2009: Fearless Tour
In January 2009, Swift announced her first headlining tour. Swift is taking her North American
Fearless Tour 2009 to 52 cities in 38 states and provinces in the US and Canada over the span of 6 months. Opening acts include
Kellie Pickler and
Gloriana, a new group in country music. The tour features a theatrical presentation of graphics, sets and visual elements designed by Swift; Swift plays guitar as well as piano. Multiple costume changes and a fairy-tale castle are some of the elements of the three-act show.
[65] The tour kicked off April 23 in
Evansville, Indiana. On February 6, 2009, tickets went on sale for the May 22 date at Los Angeles’
Staples Center and sold out in two minutes.
[66] Tickets for several dates and venues, including
Madison Square Garden, went on sale the following week and sold out in one minute.
[67] [68] [69] [70] [71] On
April 28,
2009, Swift gave a free, private concert to students at
Bishop Ireton High School, a small
Catholic school in
Alexandria, Virginia after the school won a national "TXT 2 WIN" contest from
Verizon Wireless.
[72] The students sent over 19,000 text messages to Verizon during a roughly one month long contest. Swift played for about an hour during the school's field day, an annual day-long recess with games and activities.
Television appearances
In 2008, Swift made her acting debut in
Brad Paisley's music video "
Online". In that same year Swift filmed a documentary for
MTV entitled
MTV's Once Upon a Prom
and a documentary with
Def Leppard for
CMT entitled
CMT Crossroads
, which was premiered on November 7, 2008, drew more than 4.5 million viewers for its four initial airings.
[73] Swift collaborated with the
Jonas Brothers in their 3D Concert Film,
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
. The film was released on February 27, 2009 in North America. The concert film brought in $12,700,000 on its opening weekend.
[74] Swift made her primetime television acting debut on
CBS's
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on March 5, 2009 in the U.S. and Canada. The episode was watched by 20.8 million viewers.
[75] Swift made a cameo appearance in
Kellie Pickler's music video "
Best Days of Your Life". Swift also appeared in
Hannah Montana: The Movie
as "woman singing in the barn". The film was released on April 10, 2009 in North America.
[76] The television show
Dateline NBC showcased an hour to Swift on May 31, 2009. The episode titled
Dateline NBC: On Tour With Taylor Swift
included scenes from her tour bus, concert footage, and rehearsals. She was also interviewed for the show and some of her exclusive video diaries were shown.
[77]
Philanthropy
Jakks Pacific released a
celebrity doll of Swift in late 2008.
[78] Swift and the
L.e.i. Clothing Line made a deal to create a line based on Swift's style of dressing. It will appear in
Wal-Mart in the coming months.
[79] However, Swift said she does not want to be called a designer. Instead, she says she will inspire the clothing company's dress line based on her own style. "I don't look at it like I'm branching out as a designer... It's not the Taylor Swift designer line."
[80] In 2009, Swift became the
National Hockey League's newest celebrity spokesperson. She appears in commercials for the
Nashville Predators.
[81] Swift is an endorser of
Body By Milk, a campaign calling teenagers to drink low fat milk to maintain a healthy weight.
[82] On September 21, 2007, Swift launched a campaign to protect children from online predators.
[83] She has teamed up with
Tennessee Governor
Phil Bredesen to combat internet sex crimes.
The year-long campaign, launched in partnership with the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police, will distribute Internet safety information and materials to parents and students across the state.
In early 2008, Swift donated the pink Chevy pick-up truck given to her by her record label to children’s charity, the
Victory Junction Gang
; in June, 2008, Swift donated all the proceeds she got from her merchandise sales at the 2008 Country Music Festival to
Red Cross, the
Nashville Area Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund
and the
National American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund
.
[84] Swift donated $10,000, funded by CMT ONE COUNTRY, to
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital by winning the "Video of the Year" and "Female Video of the Year" awards at the 2008
CMT Music Awards.
[85]. In 2009, Swift won "Video of the Year and "Female Video of the Year" awards at the 2009
CMT Music Awards. She donated $5,000. funded by CMT, to
American Red Cross
.
[86]
Swift donated $100,000 to the Red Cross in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa to help the victims of the
Iowa flood of 2008.
[87] Swift has teamed up with Sound Matters to make listeners aware of listening "
responsibly".
[88] Swift supports , a teen-led social change platform underwritten by
Best Buy to give teens opportunities to direct the company's philanthropy through the newly-created @15 Fund. Swift's song, "
Fifteen", is featured in this campaign.
[89] Swift has lent her support to the
Victorian Bushfire Appeal by joining the lineup at Sydney's
Sound Relief concert,
[90] reportedly making the biggest contribution of any artist playing at Sound Relief to the Australian
Red Cross.
[91] Swift donated her prom dress, which raised $1,200 for charity, to .
[92]
Personal life
Swift's best friend has been Abigail Anderson, whom she has known since their ninth-grade year. During a discussion of
Shakespeare in an English class they learned what they had in common. "We were the ones in the back of the class saying negative things about
Romeo and Juliet
because we were so bitter toward that emotion at the time," said Anderson. "We just really connected ... and ever since then we have been inseparable."
[93] Anderson also appeared on
Ellen to surprise Swift. On that episode of
Ellen Swift also revealed that
Joe Jonas broke up with her in a 27 seconds phone conversation.
Swift is also close friends with
Kellie Pickler, with whom she co-wrote Pickler's second single "
Best Days of Your Life" from her self-titled album
Kellie Pickler
.
[94] In July 2008, Swift graduated from the Aaron Academy, a
Christian school in
Hendersonville, Tennessee which offers a home-schooling program.
[95]
Swift has been featured on the cover of a number of magazines.
In 2008, the list includes
Blender
,
Seventeen
,
[96] Billboard
,
[97] Girls' Life
[98] [99],
Women's Health
and
CosmoGirl
.
[100] In 2009, Swift graced the cover of
Teen Vogue
,
[101] Self Magazine
,
[102] Rolling Stone
,
[103],
Allure
[104],
Glamour
[105], and
Bliss
[106] Swift has been a
cover girl for
Blender
, for which Swift was one of two country artists during the magazine’s fifteen year run to be a cover subject.
[107]
Swift was named number fifty-seven on
Maxim's
sexiest women of 2008.
[108] CosmoGirl
voted Swift as the "2008 Girl of the Year".
[109]
Swift was named by
Rolling Stone
magazine as one of "The RS 100: Agents of Change".
[110] She was nominated as a candidate for
TIME's "2009 The Time 100 Finalists" list, which is determined by online voting.
[111]
Band
Swift has had the same backup band for most of her career thus far. Some of them join her to record in the studio. Banjoist Ben Clark and fiddle player Emily Poe are the only two people who have left the band. As of 2009, the lineup is:
- Taylor Swift – Lead Vocals, Guitar, Piano
- Grant Mickelson – Guitar
- Paul Sidoti – Guitar
- Mike Meadows – Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar, Keyboards, Cello
- Caitlin Evanson – Fiddle
- Amos Heller – Bass
- Al Wilson – Drums
Discography
;Albums
- 2006: Taylor Swift
- 2008: Fearless
;EPs
- 2007: Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection
- 2008: Beautiful Eyes
;Live Albums
;Video Albums
- 2008: "CMT Crossroads: Taylor Swift & Def Leppard"
Filmography
| Year
| Film
| Role
| Notes
|
| 2007
| "Online" - Brad Paisley
| Herself
| Music Video
|
| 2008
| "Best Days of Your Life" - Kellie Pickler
| Herself
| Music Video
|
| 2009
| Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
| Herself
| Cameo
|
| 2009
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
| Haley Jones
| Episode "Turn, Turn, Turn"
|
| 2009
| CMT Crossroads: Taylor Swift / Def Leppard
| Herself
| Music DVD
|
| 2009
| Hannah Montana: The Movie
| Herself
| Cameo
|
| 2010
| Valentine's Day
| Samantha Kenny
| Movie acting debut
|
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Awards and nominations
References
- Sounds of Swagger and Sob Stories
- 2008 U.S. Music Purchases Exceed 1.5 Billion; Growth in Overall Music Purchases Exceeds 10%
- http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/taylor-swift-continues-billboard-200-dominance-1003947378.story
- Week Ending Jan. 11, 2009: Eat Your Heart Out, Loretta Lynn
- Week Ending Feb. 8, 2009: Shady's Back (Tell A Friend)
- 'Love' Joins the Club
- http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/53/celebrity-09_Taylor-Swift_2OIN.html
- Taylor Swift Biography TVGuide.com
- The Unabridged Taylor Swift
- Taylor Swift: Growing into superstardom
- Taylor Swift is already queen of country pop
- http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release-rss/the-early-years-of-the-taylor-swift-story-85822.ph
- Catching Up With Taylor Swift
- Taylor Swift Biography at GAC
- Taylor Swift at Ask Men.com
- Taylor's swift rise
- Taylor Swift Biography
- http://www.gactv.com/gac/nw_headlines/article/0,,GAC_26063_5938171,00.html
- http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/16/earlyshow/saturday/secondcup/main4103339.shtml
- Taylor Swift biography at Allmusic
- http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20081111/ENT01/811110317/1005/NEWS01
- http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/taylorswift123.htm
- http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/dan_deluca/20081111_Taylor_Swift__focused_on__great_songs_
- Artist Chart History – Taylor Swift
- Taylor Swift – Discography
- Taylor Swift Scores First Chart-Topping Debut With Fearless
- http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums
&model.vn
- http://www.countrymusiconline.net/acmawards43_2.html
- Taylor Swift Bumps Herself Out of No. 1 Slot
- Taylor Swift Tops 50 Million MySpace Streams & Has Country's #1 Selling CD for 20th Week
- Taylor Swift, "Fearless"
- Taylor Swift reaches No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart
- MySpace Announces “MYSPACE TOP 8’S OF 2008” Awards
- Taylor Swift at Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum
- GAC Debuts Short Cuts Series with Rising Star Taylor Swift
- Taylor Swift Joins Tim McGraw, Faith Hill on Tour
- Taylor Swift performs on "America's Got Talent"
- It's writers' turn to be honored for songs
- Keys Still The "One" Atop Billboard Charts
- Taylor Swift offers new single to radio, ACMs
- Taylor Swift Interview, ACMs
- A hot time at country music's fan festival
- Wal-Mart "Eyes" New Taylor Swift Project
- Taylor Swift owns top of country chart
- http://www.taylorguitars.com/news/music.html
- Coming attractions: Not all boys make Taylor Swift cry
- Taylor Swift's Fearless Makes History With No 1 Debut On Billboard's Top 200 All-Genre Album Sales Chart
- No Surprise: Taylor Swift Debuts No. 1
- Taylor Swift Soars to No.1
- Week Ending Jan. 4, 2009: It's Taylor Swift's World...
- Taylor Swift offers "Change" for Olympics, wins Teen Choice award
- Taylor Swift Sets Historic Top 40 Radio Milestone for Country Artist
- Taylor Swift's latest single "White Horse" helps make her triple-platinum
- Taylor Swift on Joe Jonas: "We Don't Talk"
- Taylor Swift reaches 5 million in sales, tops Billboard
- Taylor Swift Tops 2008 Year-End Canadian Country Albums Chart With #1 and #2 CDs
- Taylor Swift Makes Saturday Night Live History
- Taylor Swift Still 'Can't Believe' That She'll Be On 'SNL'
- ‘Saturday Night Live’ Scores Its Top Numbers Since The November Election
- Taylor Swift Wins Album Of The Year At Academy Of Country Music Awards
- Verizon Wireless inks Taylor Swift content exclusive
- Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley Win Big at CMT Awards
- Taylor Swift to Perform at VMAs
- Taylor Swift Shakes Her Polys In Band Hero
- Taylor Swift, Billboard's Best-selling Artist of 2008 announces "FEARLESS 2009" Headlining Tour
- Taylor Swift Sells Out LA's Staples Center in 2 Minutes
- Swift Tickets Gone before Many Have a Chance to Buy
- Taylor Swift tickets gone in a flash
- Taylor Swift Concert Tickets Sell Swiftly (Jonesboro, AR)
- Tickets go Swiftly into waiting hands
- Taylor Swift Show A Fast Sellout In Nyc
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- CMT Crossroads: Def Leppard and Taylor Swift Score on CMT
- Madea Holds Off the Jonas Brothers
- Wild Card American Idol Holds Off Taylor Swift CSI
- Disney unveils 2009 schedule
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31032270/
- http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b66141_taylor_swift_gets_all_dolled_up.html
- http://www.countrystandardtime.com/news/newsitem.asp?xid=1708
- http://www.usmagazine.com/news/taylor-swift-launch-line-14-dresses
- http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2009/02/03/taylor-swift-is-the-newest-nhl-celebrity-spokesperson/
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- Taylor Swift Gives Her Vote To Charity
- Artists’ Charities Win Big At The “2008 CMT MUSIC AWARDS”
- 2008 CMT Music Awards Winners
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- Sound Matters: Celebrity Profile-Taylor Swift
- Taylor Swift Lends Support to @15
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- New Taylor Swift
- Taylor Swift Donates Prom Dress
- http://www.washburnreview.org/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&ustory_id=c15f6985-f8a0-4b81-af79-
- http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20175230,00.html
- Swift receives her high school diploma, in mail
- http://www.seventeen.com/magazine/in-this-issue/taylor-swift-hub-0608
- Taylor Swift On Cover Of Billboard Magazine
- http://j.bdbphotos.com/pictures/P/1L/P1P9F1P_large.jpg
- http://www.amazon.com/GI-Girls-December-January-Issue/dp/B001LNP3R0
- http://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2008/11/24/taylor-swift-final-cosmogirl-cover/
- http://www.teenvogue.com/industry/coverlook/2009/01/teen-vogue-cover-girl-taylor-swift_090126
- http://www.celebritymound.com/?p=15045
- The Very Pink, Very Perfect Life of Taylor Swift
- Taylor Swift's Allure cover brings red lips back for spring
- Taylor Swift Bomb Shell in Blue Jeans
- At home with Taylor Swift
- Taylor Swift Featured In Blender Magazine
- http://sparklestarnews.blogspot.com/2008/05/amanda-bynestaylor-swiftfergie-and-more.html
- Taylor Swift Named 2008 CosmoGirl
- The 100 People Who Are Changing America
- 2009 The Time 100 Finalists
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