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Taylor Alison Swift (Reading, Pennsylvania; December 13, 1989) is an American
singer, songwriter, producer, philanthropist and actress.
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Speak Now
Speak Now - in Spanish: "Habla
Ahora" - is the third studio album
• In 2010 he launched his third by the American singer Taylor Swift, was
• album, Speak Now, which published on October 25,
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sold one million copies in its 2010 by Big record label
first week in the United Machine Records. Production of the
States. album took place between 2009 and 2010 in
He then embarked on his various recording studios and was carried
Speak Now World Tour, out by Swift and Nathan
which included many dates Chapman. Written entirely by Swift as a
and was attended by more follow-up to Fearless and described as a
than 2 million followers. The loose concept album about confessions,
first singles, "Mine" and "Back Speak Now expands on the country-pop
to December" were well style of her previous work, but with more
received on the music charts, rock sensibility, with bluegrass, pop
while the third single from the punk, pop rock and soft rock
album, "Mean", won two influences. Lyrically, it deals with
Grammys. themes such as love,
romance, heartbreak.
Speak Now
Upon its release, Speak Now received generally positive reviews from
music critics, who praised Swift's songwriting and themes. It debuted at number
one on the Billboard 200 chart in the US. USA, being Swift's second
consecutive album to top that list. Its first-week sales of 1,047,000 copies made it
the fifth-largest debut in history for a female artist, the third-largest by a country
artist (the first was Swift's album Red released later in 2012), the largest in five
and a half years, and the largest first week sales in 2010. The album also made
musical history by claiming the highest one-week sales tally for an album by a
female country artist. As of 2017, Speak Now ranked as the 16th album to sell at
least one million copies in a single week in the United States. Internationally, it
debuted in the top 10 in several countries, including Australia, Canada and the
United Kingdom. In July 2019, Speak Now was certified six-times platinum by the
RIAA, for • distributing more than six million units in the United States. It has sold
4.68 million pure copies in the country. It is also the tenth best-selling digital
album of all time.
Speak Now was promoted by six singles, of which the first two
they reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100; first,
"Mine" debuted at number three and "Back to December" reached number three.
number six. Furthermore, the song of the same name reached number eight after its
release as promotional single; the release of the edition of
album's luxury led to the bonus track "If This Was a Movie" debuting on the
number 10 on the chart, giving Speak Now its fourth chart-topping hit.
Top 10 spots on the Hot 100. Swift promoted the album with the tour
Speak Now World Tour, which grossed more than $123 million.
On the other hand, music specialists and awarding organizations awarded different honors to 1989. At the end
of 2014 it appeared on more than ten lists of the best albums of the year, reaching the top ten in American
Songwriter, Time, The New York Times, Rolling Stone and crowning Billboard's count. It was also nominated at
the Echo Awards and the Juno Awards in the category of best international album and earned its nomination
for best pop/rock album at the American Music Awards. In February 2016, Swift became the first female artist
to win the Grammy for Album of the Year for the second time for 1989, having previously won for Fearless
(2008) in 2010; Also on the same night he won his first Grammy for best pop vocal album. In 2020, the album
was ranked 393rd on the 500 greatest albums of all time, according to Rolling Stone magazine.
Reputatio
n
In 2017, releasing his album Reputation,
with which he won two awards for best
concert of the year on the Reputation
Stadium Tour (People's Choice Award
for Favorite Concert Tour & iHeartRadio
Music Award for Best Tour), he also
performed his concert with some guest
stars such as : Camila Cabello, Shawn
Mendes, Selena Gómez, Robbie
Williams, Charli XCX, Maren Morris, etc.
Which also raised US$345.7 million.
Reputation
Reputation (stylized in lowercase) is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.
released on November 10, 2017 by the Big Machine Records label. The album was produced by Jack
Antonoff, Max Martin, Shellback and Taylor Swift herself, who is also an executive producer. Includes only one
collaboration with the English singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran along with the American rapper Future. Unlike 1989,
reputation is characterized by being an album about Taylor's true reputation, rejection of critics and the press, and
for being darker.
The album topped the charts in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, Mexico, New Zealand,
Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. According to Nielsen SoundScan, reputation sold
1,216 million
of copies in the United States during its first week, becoming the best-selling album of 2017 in the country already
global level. To date, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) the album has sold 10
millions of copies worldwide.
Lover - in Spanish: "Amante" - is the seventh album by
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Taylor Swift. It was released on August 23, 2019 at
via Republic Records. As executive producer,
Swift worked with producers Jack Antonoff, Louis
Bell, Frank Dukes and Joel Little on the album. Described by
Swift as "a love letter to loving yourself",
The album celebrates the ups and downs of love, incorporating
brighter and more cheerful tones, unlike the sounds
dark of its predecessor Reputation (2017). The cover
album and music videos marked a change in
Swift's visual appearance, which now embodies a
summer aesthetic, which mainly consists of colors
cake. Musically, it is a pop, synth-pop album,
electropop and pop rock containing country influences,
dream pop, bubblegum pop, funk, R&B, pop punk and indie
pop.
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Lover features collaborations with Dixie Chicks and Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco. It was preceded
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by three singles, all peaking within the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100; "I!" and "You Need to Calm Down"
peaked at number two, while the title track reached number 10. All 18 tracks from the album charted
simultaneously on the Hot 100 chart upon the album's release. "The Man" was released as the fourth
single on January 27, 2020. The album received positive reviews from critics, who praised Swift's
songwriting for conveying emotional maturity and honesty. However, some commentators found the album
"long" and "inconsistent" in places.
Lover debuted at the top of the US Billboard 200 chart. USA, selling 867,000 units in its first week. It also
debuted at number one in many countries, including Australia, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, New
Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom. Lover was certified double platinum by the RIAA for selling over 2
million units in the United States. It was the best-selling album of 2019 in the country. Globally, "Lover" was
the best-selling album by a female solo artist of 2019. As of January 2020, it has sold over 3.2 million pure
copies worldwide. To promote the album, Swift would embark on Lover Fest, her sixth concert tour and first
music festival, which was to begin on June 20, 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was postponed
to 2021.
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Lover received a nomination for Best
Pop Vocal Album at the 2020 s
Grammy Awards, which is Swift's
third consecutive nomination in the
category, following 1989 (2014) and
Reputation (2017), while her singles
"You Need To Calm Down" and
"Lover" were nominated for Best Pop
Solo Performance and Song of the
Year, respectively. The album
appeared on numerous 2019 year-
end best songs lists.
Folklore
Folklore (stylized in lowercase) —in Spanish: Folklore— is the eighth studio album by American singer-
songwriter Taylor Swift. It was a surprise album, released
through Republic Records on July 24, 2020, eleven months
after its predecessor, Lover (2019). With the production and
composition at the hands of Swift herself, Jack Antonoff and
Aaron Dessner, the album moves away from the mainstream
and more commercial sounds of the singer's latest works and
stands out for its harmonious and introspective melodies, a
more elaborate lyrical interpretation and a more consistent use
of instrumentalization (mainly piano, guitar, violin and drums).
The project delves into little-explored genres such as indie folk,
alternative rock and electro-folk, which implied a new change in
sound and aesthetics for the singer, moving away from both the
country sounds of the beginning of her career and the pop that
accompanied her in recent years. The singer wrote and
recorded the album during the COVID-19 pandemic, envisioning
it as "a collection of songs and stories that flowed like a stream
of consciousness from her imagination."
Folklore
Moving away from the autobiographical themes sales since Swift's own album Lover, being the
evident in her previous projects (with an abundance of singer's seventh album at number one in the United
songs about Swift's personal life), on this album the States and the most sold in 2020. It spent eight weeks
singer gave more space to third-person rhetoric, at the top, becoming the longest on the chart since
delivering dramatic and intense invented stories and 2017.
creating characters fictitious throughout the songs. All of its 16 songs entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart
Lyrically, the album manifests a vivid narrative that simultaneously. The lead single "Cardigan" became
channels escapism, nostalgia, loneliness and Swift's sixth number one in the United States, making
introspection, which is reflected in its aesthetic of her the first artist to debut atop the Billboard 200 and
cabins, forests and nature. Folklore received universal Hot 100 simultaneously, while "The 1" and "Exile"
critical acclaim upon its release, standing out for its reached numbers four and six, respectively; These
poetic lyrics, relaxed atmosphere and emotional three songs also entered the top ten in Australia,
weight, and is considered by many specialists to be Canada, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore
their best album to date. Several critics considered and the United Kingdom.
that Swift was right to dare to experiment with the
indie genre, and that she managed to create a
harmonious, cohesive album with sounds that
encapsulated the emotions of the pandemic.
Folklore was also a commercial success. In the United
States, it debuted at first place on the Billboard 200
list with 846,000 units sold, the week with the highest
Folklore A documentary about the making of
The album broke a number of records on various streaming platforms, Folklore featuring a performance of its
including the Guinness World Record for the biggest opening day on songs, Folklore: The Long Pond Studio
Spotify for an album by a female artist (80.1 million streams, surpassing Sessions, was released on November
Ariana Grande's previous mark of 70.4). According to Republic Records, 25, 2020, along with its live album.
Folklore sold two million copies in its first week worldwide, and also Swift's ninth studio album, Evermore, is
reached number one in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the a sister album to Folklore.
United Kingdom and many other countries.
It broke the record for the largest vinyl sales week in Nielsen's history, in the US.
USA, for an album in general, becoming the first to sell more than 100 thousand
units in a week.
Fearless (Taylor's Version)
Fearless (Taylor's Version) is the first re-recorded studio album by American singer-
songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released through Republic Records on April 9, 2021, four
months after the singer's ninth studio album, Evermore. Fearless (Taylor's Version) is the
first of six re-recorded albums that Swift plans to release, in order to own the mastered
recordings of her back catalog.
Recorded with newer vocals, Fearless (Taylor's Version) consists of all 19 tracks from the platinum edition of
Swift's second studio album, Fearless, her 2010 single "Today Was a Fairytale" and six additional From the Vault
songs not included. were included on the 2008 album. Fearless (Taylor's Version) replicates the instrumentation of
the 2008 recording, produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe; Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner co-produced the
tracks From the Vault with Swift.
Eleven of the album's 26 songs were written solely by Swift. Three others feature guest vocals from Colbie Caillat,
Maren Morris and Keith Urban. The album's release was preceded by three singles: Love Story (Taylor's Version)
was released on February 12, 2021, followed by "You All Over Me", featuring Morris, on March 26, 2021, and "Mr.
Perfectly Fine" on April 7, 2021. Upon its release, Fearless (Taylor's Version) garnered universal acclaim from
critics, who praised the album's nostalgic feel, Swift's mature vocals, and crisper production.
She is known for writing great narrative songs and compositions about her personal
experiences. As a songwriter, she has been honored by the Nashville Songwriters
Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Swift's other achievements include
eleven Grammy Awards, one Emmy, 25 Billboard Music Awards, 30 American Music
Awards, one Brit Award, six MTV Video Music Awards, eleven Country Music
Association Awards, as well as two Golden Globe nominations. She has sold more
than 50 million albums and 150 million digital downloads of her singles, making her
one of the artists with the highest record sales in the world.
Due to various factors, such as her impact on the world of music, her great
commercial success and her media influence, she was named in 2019 as the
"woman of the decade" by Billboard Magazine, while at the American Music Awards
she was recognized as the "artist of the decade." According to data provided by the
IFPI, she is the most successful female artist of the 2010s.
Taylor Swift has collaborated with other famous singers such as Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber among
others. Whatever Swift is doing has managed to catch the attention of critics and media making her win
numerous awards and honored by the industry for her contribution to the music scene. Just to give you an
idea, Taylor has 6 Guinness World Records for her songs.
10 FUN FACTS ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT
Taylor reaches 30 years old and is crowned Billboard's 'Woman of the Decade'
His parents Scott Kingsley and Andrea Swift 6. Your main source of inspiration for writing
They named 'Taylor' in honor of songs are his past relationships, both
singer James Taylor. friendship as well as love, in her most recent
2. It was when she was 9 years old, when upon album 'Lover' Taylor revealed that this time her
hearing her sing the national anthem at a greatest inspiration to write about joy and eternal
basketball game, her parents decided to change love was her kittens.
the cityinand
space thefind a job
world for her.
of music.
7 . People who have worked with her have revealed
3. 3. At 12 years old, during a vacation, that she is one of the quickest people to
He wrote a 350-page novel that has not yet been composed, “Never Grow Up” was written after it was
published, he also wrote his first song in two hours.
at this age.
Before her musical success, Taylor worked on the 8 . She is one of the few singers who remains faithful
to her family farm, taking care of Christmas trees.
style and its principles. On some occasion he Several songs on his album “1989” contain
5. revealed that 5. His height is 1.78, his favorite parts that were taken from his diary. It is worth
color is white and he loves cheesecake; recently mentioning that he decided to name his album
revealed that one of her favorite artists is Lana Del that way because it was the year he was born.
Rey.
9. She once stated that if she had not been a singer or songwriter, she would be a detective, interior
designer, neurologist or psychologist; Taylor plays four instruments, the guitar, banjo, ukulele and piano.
10. She was the youngest artist to win a Grammy Award for 'Best Album of the Year'; It was in 2010,
when she was 20 years old and was promoting her album 'Fearless'.