Taylor Swift Facts
Out of all the many Taylor Swift facts, perhaps one of the most important is that she is a true phenomenon whose music has won her fans around the world. Taylor is primarily a country music singer, but her unique style has crossed over into the mainstream, earning a great deal of international admiration.
Taylor Swift Facts – career so far
Taylor’s talent was recognised from a very early age. When only 14 years old, she signed a deal with record company Sony/ATV – the youngest ever songwriter to do so.
It is Taylor’s songwriting ability that has marked her out as a star. Unlike so many in the music industry these days, she writes all of her own material. Her songs are easily identifiable and have proven to be particularly popular with younger fans. That said, Taylor’s fanbase certainly isn’t limited only to teens – she is popular amongst a wide range of age groups.
The praise that Taylor has won for her songwriting has been extremely well deserved. Not only did her first album go platinum, it made her the first ever female country artist to have had a hand in writing all of the songs on a debut album that had sold over 1 million copies.
Taylor Swift Facts – MySpace
A big reason for Taylor’s popularity is the way she has connected with fans. This is something that artists have found extremely difficulty to do in the past, for understandable reasons. Even if a singer had wanted to, it isn’t exactly practical to great each and every fan at a 60,000 sell-out concert!
But Taylor took advantage of social networking right from the very early days and before it became as popular as it is right now. A Taylor Swift fact that new fans may not know is that initially she was very big on MySpace (remember that?). It provided a platform for her to share her music, as well as being able to answer fan questions.
Taylor’s initial fame on MySpace allowed her to build up an initial fanbase. Most of Taylor’s earlier followers were country music fans who helped her to become the most popular country artist on the social networking site.
Taylor Swift Facts – Twitter and YouTube
Of course, these days MySpace isn’t as popular as it once was. And Taylor is a lot more famous than she was back then. Does this mean that she has given up on the whole social networking thing? Absolutely not. Taylor is a regular user of Twitter, and at the time of writing has a truly staggering number of followers – well over 7 million. And it is not only Twitter that Taylor uses, as she regularly posts videos to her YouTube channel.
Top 10 Taylor Swift facts
- Taylor has sold in excess of 20 million albums worldwide.
- So far during her career, Taylor has won four Grammys, seven American Music Awards, one MTV Video Music Award and six CMT music awards.
- Despite being only 21, Taylor has released three highly successful albums and completed two major tours.
- Taylor’s musical influences include Tim McGraw, LeAnn Rimes, Shania Twain, Dolly Parton and Tina Turner.
- Aged only 12, Taylor sung the national anthem at the US Open tennis tournament.
- Taylor has been involved in a number of charity projects, donating $500,000 to victims of the 2010 floods in Tennessee, $250,000 to a charity involved in helping kids caught up in the West Alabama tornado earlier this year, and £13,000 to British charity Children in Need.
- Rolling Stone magazine named Taylor as one of ‘The RS 100: Agents of Change’.
- Taylor can play the guitar, ukulele, piano and banjo.
- Taylor is a big fan of Def Leppard.
- Back in 2009, Taylor appeared in an episode of CSI.
Taylor Swift Facts – Speak Now
Speak Now is Taylor’s most recent studio album, having been released in October, 2010. During the first week of release alone, it sold over 1 million copies.
The standard edition of the album contains 14 tracks, although – as a bonus – the European iTunes release also contains the US version of Mine, as well as the local release.
Various different deluxe editions of Speak Now have been released around the world. These are available as either a two-disc set or a digital download. The cover of the deluxe edition is very similar to the standard release, although Taylor’s dress is coloured red instead of the purple used for the original release.
There are plenty of cool Taylor Swift facts relating to the release of Speak Now. It went triple platinum in the USA and Canada, double platinum in Australia, platinum in the Philippines and New Zealand, and gold in the UK, Ireland and Japan.
Speak now has been a massive success around the world, reaching the number 1 position in the USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Taiwan.
Taylor Swift Facts – the future
We’re sure you will agree that Taylor has an exciting career ahead of her in the music industry. Right now, we don’t know when Taylor’s fourth album will appear, although in the past there has been a gap of around two years between albums. Keep checking back at Taylor Swift Facts for all the latest updates and videos – we will make them available to you just as soon as we have them.