Taylor Swift Artist Research

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Taylor Swift Taylor Swift is an American singer- songwriter. She was first became known as a country singer but has converted over to the pop genre in recent years. She is well known for writing all her songs and often playing her own instruments as well. History Taylor Swift released her self-titled debut album in 2006 which sold 39,000 copies. This album was of the country genre and had a minor impact on the pop chart. Her next album Fearless was released 2 years later in 2008 and sold over 592,000 copies in its first week. Taylor was also the youngest ever recipient of the ‘album of the year’ Grammy for this album. In 2010 came her next release, Speak Now. This album sold over 1 million copies in its first week making it one of only 16 albums to ever do this. In 2012, Taylor released the album RED. RED was the first album to show significant elements of Pop and made her a household name as well as a successful country artist. The lead single – ‘We are never ever

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Taylor Swift Artist Research

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Taylor SwiftTaylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She was first became known as a country singer but has converted over to the pop genre in recent years. She is well known for writing all her songs and often playing her own instruments as well.

HistoryTaylor Swift released her self-titled debut album in 2006 which sold 39,000 copies. This album was of the country genre and had a minor impact on the pop chart. Her next album Fearless was released 2 years later in 2008 and sold over 592,000 copies in its first week. Taylor was also the youngest ever recipient of the album of the year Grammy for this album. In 2010 came her next release, Speak Now. This album sold over 1 million copies in its first week making it one of only 16 albums to ever do this. In 2012, Taylor released the album RED. RED was the first album to show significant elements of Pop and made her a household name as well as a successful country artist. The lead single We are never ever getting back together became Taylors first number one on the Billboard official Hot 100. Red sold 1.21 million copies in its first week. Taylors most recent album, 1989, was released in 2014 and became her first album completely comprised of the Pop genre only. It managed to beat all other albums selling 1.28 million copies in its first week. Taylor Swift is the only artist in history to have 3 albums sell over a million copies in their first week of release.

LinksTaylor Swift optimises the use of social media and can be found across many platforms.Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TaylorSwiftVEVOTwitter: https://twitter.com/taylorswift13Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TaylorSwiftInstagram: https://instagram.com/taylorswift/Her Website: http://taylorswift.com/Tumblr: taylorswift.tumblr.com/

AwardsTaylor Swift has won over 218 awards including 7 Grammys, 16 American Music Awards, 22 Billboard Awards, 11 Country Music Association Awards, 8 Peoples choice awards and 21 Teen Choice awards. Some of her most significant award wins include: 50th Anniversary Milestone Award at the 2015 country music association awards. Dick Clark Award for Excellence at the 2014 American Music Awards. 2015 Billboard Chart Achievement Award 2013 Billboard Milestone Artist 2011 and 2014 Billboard Woman of the Year (The only person to receive this award twice) 2013 International Artist Achievement award at the Country music association awards. Holds 4 Guinness World Records including fastest selling album and single. 2011 Ultimate choice award at Teen Choice AwardsSignificant MomentTaylor Swift has had many significant moments across her career including all her album releases and award wins. Other notable moments include: She has been named the most charitable celebrity twice. Her most recent music video Bad Blood- broke the Vevo record for most views in 24 hours. It was seen by 20.1 million people. In 2012 at age 23, Taylor was named as number one on Forbes highest paid celebrities under 30. She sold out the infamous Madison square garden in one minute. Her RED tour made over $150 million. Taylor became the first female artist ever to sell out the Allianz arena in Sydney. She was named Entertainment Weeklys youngest Entertainer of the Year

Our Chosen SongWe will be making a music video for the song Out of the Woods which is taken from Taylor Swifts latest album 1989. It was released on October 14th, 2015 and Swift co-wrote the track with Jack Antonoff of the band Fun. Critics have called it Taylor Swifts most adventurous and breath-taking work yet. Taylor has said that the song is about "the fragility and breakable nature of some relationships. This was a relationship where I was kind of living day-to-day wondering where it was going, if it was going to go anywhere, if it was going to end the next day." The song is said to be synthpop and uses sounds inspired by the 80s.