August 19th, 2011Taylor Swift at Teen Choice Awards – August 7
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I’ve added pics of Taylor Swift at The 2011 Teen Choice Awards. Be sure to check them out!

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July 28th, 2011Taylor Swift to receive Ultimate Choice Award at The 2011 Teen Choice Awards

USAToday.com: Taylor Swift will definitely be at the Teen Choice 2011 awards on Sunday, Aug. 7 in Los Angeles. The show will air on Fox at 8 p.m. (live ET on Fox/PT tape-delayed).

Why? She’ll be receiving the Ultimate Choice Award in recognition of her “extraordinary contributions to the entertainment industry.”

Fox has also announced that fans will be able to watch the Teen Choice 2011 red carpet and backstage action with a live webcast airing Sunday, Aug. 7 (3:30-5:00 PM PT live/6:30-8:00 PM ET live) online at Teenchoiceawards.com.

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July 16th, 2011Taylor Swift releasing her own fragrance, “Wonderstruck”, this October
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Country superstar Taylor Swift is expanding her business, as she adds a fragrance to her collection of merchandise. The singer has titled her upcoming women’s fragrance “Wonderstruck”, it’s expected to hit retail in October.

Swift has gotten her fragrance title from the lyrics of one of her songs. The *lucky line* is: “I’m wonderstruck, blushing all the way home.” from “Enchanted” (track of Swift’s 3rd. studio album “Speak Now”)

The fragrance scent is described, on the press release released by Swift’s camp on Friday, as “the flawless beauty of freesia, apple blossom and raspberry. A sweet surprise of blissful vanilla … airy, sun-drenched honeysuckle and white hibiscus … golden amber and sandalwood … with lush peach.”

Swift now joins a team, that only gets larger, of celebrities who have their own fragrance such as pop superstar Britney Spears, socialite Paris Hilton, actress/singer Jennifer Lopez, teen sensation Justin Bieber, reality tv celebrity Kim Kardashian and the No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani.

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July 11th, 2011Taylor Swift postpones Southern dates of her “Speak Now Tour”
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Due to bronchitis, 4 time Grammy-winning Country superstar Taylor Swift is postponing two concerts of her “Speak Now Tour” in Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC.

Swift said to have been advised by her doctor not to perform concerts during this week. The concert in Atlanta is being rescheduled to Oct. 1 and the Charlotte one to Nov. 16. Tickets bought to the original dates will be honored.

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July 4th, 2011Taylor Swift nominated for six 2011 Teen Choice Awards

Music: Female Artist

Adele
Lady Gaga
Katy Perry
Rihanna
Taylor Swift

Music: Female Country Artist
Miranda Lambert
Jennette McCurdy
Kellie Pickler
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood

Music: Country Single
“If I Die Young” – The Band Perry
“Country Girl” – Luke Bryan
“Just a Kiss” – Lady Antebellum
“Honey Bee” – Blake Shelton
“Mean” – Taylor Swift

Music: Break-Up Song
“Rolling in the Deep” – Adele
“Forget You” – Cee Lo Green
“See No More” – Joe Jonas
“Grenade” – Bruno Mars
“Back to December” – Taylor Swift

Music: Love Song
“Come Down with Love” – Allstar Weekend
“Love You Like a Love Song” – Selena Gomez
“Just the Way You Are” – Bruno Mars
“Teenage Dream” – Katy Perry
“Mine” – Taylor Swift

Red Carpet Fashion Icon: Female
Lady Gaga
Miley Cyrus
Jennifer Lopez
Taylor Swift
Vanessa Hudgens

Be sure to cast your vote for Taylor at TeenChoiceAwards.com. The show is on August 7.

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April 5th, 2011Taylor Swift wins the top Academy of Country Award 2011

Taylor Swift took home last Sunday (April 3rd 2011) The Top award, “Entertainer Of The Year” at The 2011 Academy Of Country Awards.

With a humble and gracious speech, Swift has thanked her fans and the Academy.

The Country singer performed her latest single, “Mean”, at the show.

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November 4th, 2010Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now” sells over 1 million copies on the first week in the USA

Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now” will debut at No. 1 on this week’s US Billboard 200 Albums chart with a whopping 1,047,000 copies sold, according to Billboard. It’s the largest sales week for an album since 50 Cent’s “The Massacre” bowed at No. 1 with 1,141,000 in March of 2005.

In the history of U.S. Billboard Nielsen SoundScan, “Speak Now” becomes only the 17th album to have sold over a million in a week.

On the females side, “Speak Now” is the biggest female album sales week since Britney Spears sold 1,319,000 in one week of her album “Oops!…I Did It Again” in May 2000. Taylor’s “Speak” becomes the 2nd album by a female artist with the biggest sales week ever, only after Britney.

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October 28th, 2010Taylor Swift “Speak Now” to sell somewhere between 900k and 1 million on the first week
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MTV News: here’s no doubt that Taylor Swift is on a roll. From the pile of four-star reviews for her just-released third studio album, Speak Now, to the intense interest in the stories behind the songs, the 20-year-old singer is poised to cement her status as one of the biggest young career stars in all of music.

And next Wednesday could provide the icing on the cake. According to industry experts, Swift is on track to easily notch the biggest first-week sales of the year, and possibly even approach one of music’s most elusive achievements: a platinum-selling debut week.

“I’ve been very specific on my point of view from the beginning,” said Scott Borchetta, president and CEO of Swift’s label, Big Machine Label Group. “We shipped 2 million copies this week and we always felt we could do 700,000 to a million.” Late Wednesday, Borchetta said that sales for the week were trending “way north” of 700,000 and depending on how the rest of the week goes, “who knows?”

Either way, he was confident that Speak Now would sell a lot of copies.

Billboard has predicted that Speak Now could sell as many as 800,000-900,000 copies in the week following its release, easily besting the year’s biggest bow to date, Eminem’s Recovery, which moved 741,000.

“Expectations are high, very high,” said Keith Caulfield, senior chart manager and analyst at Billboard, on Wednesday. “Let’s say even though 1 million is possible, even if she doesn’t get that, it will probably sell 800,000 or more, which will give her the give biggest single sales week for an album this year … or last.” Caulfield said the experts Billboard has spoken to are bullish on Swift’s prospects, and they have good reason to be.

“It speaks volumes about how big a star she is and how she can get people engaged by not just buying a single track or concert ticket, but getting consumers to buy a whole album,” he explained. “Considering how many albums she’s sold and the story she’s built and the career she’s had over the past couple of years with her first two albums, it seems like the appropriate reaction.”

Borchetta said the potentially gaudy numbers are a function of both a very careful, thoughtful marketing plan from his label and, more importantly, the strong connection between Swift and her fans. “It’s about the songs for her and Taylor has taught millions of young people to go out and buy CDs,” something that is a rarity in this day of easily accessible downloads from albums often larded with a few gems amid so much chaff. “Taylor doesn’t write throwaways.”

As proof, he noted that earlier this week she had nine of the top 10 singles on iTunes’ country chart. Despite the seemingly risky prospect of flooding the market with more than 2 million CDs, he’s not worried about returns. “Smile and wave,” he said proudly. “They’re gone. We’re already getting re-orders.” And though iTunes does not reveal sales data, Swift also seems on track to set some new high-water marks on Apple’s digital service; at midweek all 14 songs from the album were on iTunes’ top 200 singles list, including 10 in the top 30.

While some artists have come off recent best-selling albums to find soft sales for follow-ups, Caulfield said Swift seems destined to buck that trend because of the way she connects with listeners. “She’s able to engage people in a way that’s different than most other artists,” he noted of Swift, who has created a unique lane with her confessional songwriting and willingness to share her private emotions with her millions of fans. “People feel that she’s speaking from the heart and making a very personal statement. The songs come from her heart and [talk] about her feelings. You feel like you have more of a connection with her than other artists.”

Another unique aspect he pointed to was her youth and ability to straddle both the country and pop worlds by appealing to fans who love Britney Spears and who used to follow Shania Twain, but who also enjoy contemporary country stars like Carrie Underwood. Add in super catchy songs and the Big Machine label’s strategy of getting Speak Now into everywhere from big-box stores and mom-and-pop shops to Hot Topic, Starbucks and maybe even your local 7-Eleven, and the picture starts to come into clear view.

Now, about that 1 million number.

No album has reached that plateau since Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III sold 1,006,000 copies during its first week on shelves back in 2008, and one industry person who doesn’t work for Swift’s label told Caulfield that selling a million copies of an album in a week in 2010 is the equivalent of selling 2.3 million back in 2000. That magic number, the highest first-week tally in the chart’s history, was put up by ‘NSYNC’s No Strings Attached in 2000.

Swift’s last album, Fearless, debuted at #1 in November 2008 with sales of 582,000, going on to move 6 million copies and take the crown for the top seller of 2009.

At the end of the day, though, Borchetta stressed that Swift is not the kind of artist who is obsessed with reading SoundScan sales reports. “She’s certainly aware of those things, but she doesn’t put it in the perspective of having to beat another artist,” he said. “She loves it when she’s successful and is still just as excitable as ever, but when a fan quotes a lyric back to her she just loves it. For her, it’s about her songwriting.”

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October 7th, 2010Taylor Swift’s “Mine” cross 1 million paid downloads

“Mine” becomes this week Taylor Swift’s 11th song to surpass the mark of 1 million digital downloads. Taylor’s best-selling digital single is “Love Story” with 4,7 million copies, followed by “You Belong With Me” with 3,37 million, “Our Song” with 2,65 million downloads and “Teardrops On My Guitar” with 2,5 million. The other 6 songs are: “White Horse” (1,9 million), “Tim McGraw” (1,6 million), “Picture To Burn” (1,26 million), “Today Was A Fairytale” (1,22 million), “Should’ve Said No” (1,14 million) and “Fifteen” (1,03 million). Taylor Swift is the best-selling female digital artist in the history of the digital chart.

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September 22nd, 2010Tracklisting of Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now”
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Check out the tracklisting for Taylor’s upcoming album “Speak Now”:

1. Mine (03:49)
2. Sparks (04:20)
3. Back To December (04:53)
4. Speak Now (04:00)
5. Dear John (06:43)
6. Mean (03:57)
7. The Story Of Us (04:25)
8. Never Grow Up (04:50)
9. Enchanted (05:52)
10. Better Than Revenge (03:37)
11. Innocent (05:02)
12. Haunted (04:02)
13. Last Kiss (06:07)
14. Long Live (05:17)

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