TAYLOR NOMINATED FOR THREE CMT MUSIC AWARDS
Taylor is nominated for three CMT Music Awards including Video of the Year for "Safe & Sound" featuring the Civil Wars, Female Video of the Year for "Ours", and Collaborative Video of the Year for "Safe & Sound" featuring the Civil Wars!
Taylor is nominated for 3 CMT Music Awards including Video of the Year for "Safe & Sound" featuring the Civil Wars, Female Video of the Year for "Ours", and Collaborative Video of the Year for "Safe & Sound" featuring the Civil Wars! You can vote online at CMT.com now through June 4. And be sure to tune in Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 8/7 PM CT to catch the awards live and vote for Taylor for Video of the Year during the live telecast!
TAYLOR TAKES HOME SECOND STRAIGHT ACM ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
Taylor took home her second straight Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year award tonight! The award was fan voted ... thank you to all the fans who voted!
Taylor took home her second straight Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year award tonight! The award was fan voted ... thank you to all the fans who voted!
TAYLOR CELEBRATES 5TH CONSECUTIVE #1 FROM SPEAK NOW
6-time GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift is at the top of the Billboard chart this week as her single “Ours” ascends to the #1 position on the Top Country Songs chart. “Ours” is the fifth single, and fifth consecutive #1 song, from her 5x Platinum-plus Speak Now album...
6-time GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift is at the top of the Billboard chart this week as her single “Ours” ascends to the #1 position on the Top Country Songs chart. “Ours” is the fifth single, and fifth consecutive #1 song, from her 5x Platinum-plus Speak Now album, released in October of 2010 on Big Machine Records. The album’s previous #1 songs were “Mine,” “Back To December,” “Mean,” and “Sparks Fly.”
On Sunday evening, Taylor performed the 111th and final show of her 13-month blockbuster Speak Now World Tour, playing to a capacity crowd for the third consecutive night in Auckland, New Zealand’s Vector Arena. The tour visited stadiums and arenas in 19 countries spanning four continents, with the New Zealand Herald writing of the final show, “When she came out the room exploded, and she opened super-strong. The set heats up and stays strong …one of the best things about the show is how inclusive it feels - like she would sing personally for everyone on the arena if she could….while as a production it dwarfs any other arena show I've seen. One thing abundantly clear to all concerned was that we're unlikely to witness a show like that again in a long, long time. Maybe ever.” Taylor holds the #1, #2, #5 and #8 positions on Australia’s Aria Top 20 Country Albums sales chart this week.
Taylor has two songs on the soundtrack album The Hunger Games – Songs From District 12 and Beyond, which is currently #1 on the iTunes Albums Chart. In addition, she voices the character of Audrey in Dr. Seuss’s The LORAX, which is this year’s top grossing movie to date, with a box office total in excess of $158 million.
Taylor is nominated for three 2012 Academy of Country Music Awards: Entertainer of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, and Video of the Year. She is also up for Favorite Female Singer and Favorite Song at the 25th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards. She is featured on the April cover of Harper’s Bazaar Australia, and was on the cover of Vogue in February. Taylor is the reigning Billboard Woman of the Year and the AMA Artist of the Year. She is both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association’s current Entertainer of the Year, and now has more than 11.8 million Twitter followers (@taylorswift13) and 29 million Facebook friends.
"EYES OPEN" NOW AVAILABLE ON ITUNES!
Taylor's second song, "Eyes Open", from the freshly released Hunger Games soundtrack is now available on iTunes! Be sure to check it out HERE!
Taylor's second song, "Eyes Open", from the freshly released Hunger Games soundtrack is now available on iTunes! Be sure to check it out HERE!
TAYLOR PLAYS 100TH SHOW OF SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR
6-time GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift kicked off the final leg of her blockbuster SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR in Australia over the weekend, electrifying capacity crowds and impressing critics -- on Friday at Perth’s Burswood Dome, and at the 100th show of the tour on Sunday at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.
6-time GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift kicked off the final leg of her blockbuster SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR in Australia over the weekend, electrifying capacity crowds and impressing critics -- on Friday at Perth’s Burswood Dome, and at the 100th show of the tour on Sunday at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.
The Sunday Times (Perth) dubbed Taylor’s show “dazzling,” writing that she “had 16,000 people in the palm of her hand.” Adelaide Now said Taylor “delighted the crowd” and “was at her best….genuinely loving being on stage…..letting her vocal cords wow the crowd.” Taylor played 98 shows in stadiums and arenas in 17 countries around the globe in 2011, and the tour concludes this month with 12 shows in Australia and New Zealand.
“Ours,” the 5th single released from Taylor’s now 5x-Platinum Speak Now album (Big Machine Records), continues to grow at radio, ascending into the Top 5 of both the Billboard and Country Aircheck / Mediabase charts this week. The album’s prior four singles all reached #1. The video for “Ours” is spending its 7th week at #1 on the CMT chart, and also reached #1 on the GAC chart, as well as Australia’s CMC chart. The “Ours” single has been certified Gold, with current sales topping 850,000.
Taylor voices the character of Audrey in Dr. Seuss’s The LORAX, which this weekend earned $70.7 million, scoring the biggest box-office debut of the year. The film also achieved the biggest opening of any Dr. Seuss adaptation, topping 2000’s How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
Taylor is nominated for three 2012 Academy of Country Music Awards: Entertainer of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, and Video of the Year. She is also up for Favorite Female Singer and Favorite Song at the 25th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards. She is featured on the April cover of Harper’s Bazaar Australia, and was on the cover of Vogue in February. Taylor is the reigning Billboard Woman of the Year and the AMA Artist of the Year. She is both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association’s current Entertainer of the Year, and now has more than 11.4 million Twitter followers (@taylorswift13) and 29 million Facebook friends.
TAYLOR APPEARS ON ELLEN'S "TEA TIME"
Taylor visited the Ellen DeGeneres Show on February 29 for a new segment called "Tea Time" with Sophia Grace and Rosie where the three discuss everything from boys, fashion and cookies. Check out the video HERE!
Taylor visited the Ellen DeGeneres Show on February 29 for a new segment called "Tea Time" with Sophia Grace and Rosie where the three discuss everything from boys, fashion and cookies. Check out the video HERE!
TAYLOR AND ZAC EFRON ON ELLEN
Check out this clip of Taylor and Zac Efron playing a song together on guitar for Ellen. Click HERE to watch!
Check out this clip of Taylor and Zac Efron playing a song together on guitar for Ellen. Click HERE to watch!
TAYLOR NOMINATED FOR TWO KIDS' CHOICE AWARDS
Taylor has been nominated for TWO Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Female Singer and Favorite Song ("Sparks Fly")! Be sure to tune in on Saturday, March 31st at 8/7c to cheer on Taylor, and vote NOW at this link for singer, and this link for song.
Taylor has been nominated for TWO Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Female Singer and Favorite Song ("Sparks Fly")! Be sure to tune in on Saturday, March 31st at 8/7c to cheer on Taylor, and vote NOW at this link for singer, and this link for song.
PRE-ORDER THE HUNGER GAMES SOUNDTRACK ON ITUNES!
The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond is now available for pre-order on iTunes! The soundtrack, which becomes available March 20, 2012, will feature two songs by Taylor including "Safe & Sound" and a new song entitled "Eyes Open".
The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond is now available for pre-order on iTunes! The soundtrack, which becomes available March 20, 2012, will feature two songs by Taylor including "Safe & Sound" and a new song entitled "Eyes Open". Click HERE for more information and to pre-order!
"SAFE & SOUND" BEHIND-THE-SCENES VIDEO
Check out behind-the-scenes footage of Taylor's latest music video for "Safe & Sound" featuring the Civil Wars! Click HERE to view the clip.
Check out behind-the-scenes footage of Taylor's latest music video for "Safe & Sound" featuring the Civil Wars! Click HERE to view the clip.
TAYLOR TO APPEAR ON ELLEN
Taylor is scheduled to appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday, February 21 to discuss her role in the upcoming film, The Lorax! To tune in, check your local listings HERE.
Taylor is scheduled to appear on The Ellen Degeneres Show on Tuesday, February 21 to discuss her role in the upcoming film, The Lorax! To tune in, check your local listings HERE.
TAYLOR TO APPEAR ON THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO
Be sure to catch Taylor on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday, February 20 at 11:35PM ET on NBC.
Be sure to catch Taylor on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday, February 20 at 11:35PM ET on NBC.
"MEAN" WINS 2 GRAMMY AWARDS!
"Mean" from Speak Now has been awarded "Best Country Solo Performance" and "Best Country Song" at the 54th annual Grammy Awards!
"Mean" from Speak Now has been awarded "Best Country Solo Performance" and "Best Country Song" at the 54th annual Grammy Awards!
"SAFE & SOUND" MUSIC VIDEO TO PREMIERE FEB 13 @ 7:54PM ET ON MTV
Mark your calendars! The music video for "Safe & Sound," Taylor's latest single from The Hunger Games soundtrack, will premiere worldwide at 7:54pm ET on MTV followed by CMT and TaylorSwift.MTV.com at 8pm ET.
Mark your calendars! The music video for "Safe & Sound," Taylor's latest single from The Hunger Games soundtrack, will premiere worldwide at 7:54pm ET on MTV followed by CMT and TaylorSwift.MTV.com at 8pm ET.
TAYLOR FEATURED IN NEW GRAMMY COMMERCIALS
Check out these new Grammy commercials featuring Taylor and LL Cool J! Taylor will be performing at the GRAMMY Awards, airing February 12 on CBS! Watch the commercials HERE.
Check out these new Grammy commercials featuring Taylor and LL Cool J! Taylor will be performing at the GRAMMY Awards, airing February 12 on CBS! Watch the commercials HERE.
Hi, I'm Taylor. I've been alive for 22 years now, and I finally have my own kitchen. I'm very excited about this, and generally excited by anything else that falls into the "cute" or "cozy" categories. I learned to play guitar when I was twelve from this guy named Ronnie who came over to fix my parents' computer. I like quilts. But that's probably because I'm always freezing cold. I LOVE Nashville. That's where I live, when I'm lucky enough to be there. I love the town so much, I sometimes feel like I should just roll the windows down in my car (nicknamed the Toyoat. Because it's a Toyota) and scream "I LOVE THIS TOWN" loudly out the windows. That wouldn't be weird, right? Every time I try and wink at someone, I mess it up and end up scaring people. My lucky number always has been and always will be 13. It pops up in front of me in the most obvious and undeniable ways, but only when something good is about to happen. I'm a Sagittarius. I think that means I'm always looking for something new. It also means I have a Christmas-themed birthday party every year. I love bright colors and things that make reality seem more whimsical than it is. I have a collection of ribbons and headbands, and I love them all the same. I over-think and over-plan and over-organize. I've been like this since I was a baby, before I was gigantically tall and over-talkative.
These days, I've been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: "Things I can change," and "Things I can't." It seems to help me sort through what to really stress about. But there I go again, over-planning and over-organizing my over-thinking! I write songs about my adventures and misadventures, most of which concern love. Love is a tricky business. But if it wasn't, I wouldn't be so enthralled with it.
Lately I've come to a wonderful realization that makes me even more fascinated by it: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does! There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because love is unpredictable, frustrating, tragic and it's beautiful. And even though there's no way to feel like I'm an expert at it, it's worth writing songs about -- more than anything else I've ever experienced in my life.
I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list. Like for example, I'm still beyond obsessed with the winter season and I still start putting up strings of lights in September. I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. But some new things I've fallen in love with -- mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities. I love spraying perfumes I used to wear when I was in high school. It brings me back to the days of trying to get a close parking spot at school, trying to get noticed by soccer players, and trying to figure out how to avoid doing or saying anything uncool, and wishing every minute of every day that one day maybe I'd get a chance to win a Grammy. Or something crazy and out of reach like that. ;)
I love old buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad's stories about college. I love the freedom of living alone, but I also love things that make me feel seven again.
Back then naivety was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a while you need fries and a chocolate milkshake and your mom. I love picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a random page, then attempting to make that recipe. I've loved my fans from the very first day, but they've said things and done things recently that make me feel like they're my friends -- more now than ever before. I'll never go a day without thinking about our memories together.
For the last two years, I've been writing and recording an album called Speak Now. I only have the option of writing about things that happen in my life, so thankfully a LOT has happened in my life in the last two years. I know I don't always say the right thing at the right time or speak up when I should, but I write it all down. I get my guitar and a pen and all of a sudden, I have a chance to say exactly what I meant to say in real life. Some of the things I wrote about are things everyone saw me go through. Some of the things I wrote about are things nobody ever knew about. I'm beyond excited for you to hear these stories and confessions.
I think it's important that you know that I will never change. But I'll never stay the same either. Must be a Sagittarius thing.
I'm pretty stoked that you read this whole thing. I commend you for that. This was ridiculously long, and you probably have other stuff you could've done in the last four minutes. So to you, or anyone else who has spent four minutes on me in some way-- listening to just one song, or watching one of my videos….Thank you. I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love.
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