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Unfortunately Taylor couldn’t attend the Teen Choice Awards because she is performing in Japan, but she sent her acceptance speech to the audience for voting for her and helping her win FOUR awards (Best Female Breakout star: Valentine’s Day, Best Female Country Music Artist, Best Country Cong: Fifteen and Country Album: Fearless). Here is her acceptance speech. Enjoy!
Rushed to iTunes Wednesday (Aug. 4), “Mine,” the first single from Swift’s forthcoming album “Speak Now,” registered 321 plays on 134 pop and country stations in its first day of availability, according to Nielsen BDS. The spins translated to an audience of 3.1 million listeners.
Country KFRG (K-FROG)/Riverside, Calif. led all stations with 10 plays Wednesday. KHOP (@95-1)/Modesto, Calif. topped all pop outlets with nine first-day plays, followed at the format by KIIS (102.7)/Los Angeles with eight plays.
Second-day airplay swelled yesterday, with “Mine” logging 522 plays on 180 pop and country stations and 5.4 million audience impressions.
After two days at radio, “Mine” is already the week’s 26th-most-heard title on the Country Songs building chart and No. 44 on the all-format Radio Songs building survey. (The weekly Country Songs chart reflects airplay Monday through Sunday. Radio Songs runs on a Wednesday through Tuesday tracking week).
“We instantly got it and started playing it every hour,” says KIIS assistant program director/music director Julie Pilat of “Mine.”
“With her last album (“Fearless”), some people were surprised that we would play a country artist on a pop station. As soon as this single dropped, however, there wasn’t a question, except listeners calling in and asking, ‘When can I buy this?!’
“The passion for Taylor’s music seems as strong as ever. If all the awards and album sales last album weren’t enough, the audience reaction is proof that she’s an official pop superstar.”
Industry prognosticators estimate that “Mine” will sell approximately 350,000 first-week downloads. Swift’s best debut sales week came courtesy of “Today Was a Fairytale,” which opened this February with 325,000. She posted her highest sales frame when “Love Story” shifted 360,000 downloads in the post-Christmas week of 2008.
With its hefty out-of-the-box airplay to be combined with its projected first-week digital sales, “Mine” could manage a debut as high as in the top three on next week’s Billboard Hot 100, to be released on billboard.com next Thursday (Aug. 12).
The CD cover for Taylor’s single “Mine” (released in only a few days!) has been released. I have posted it below with lyrics. Enjoy!
Lyrics:
You were in college working part-time, waiting tables
Left a small town, never looked back
I was a flight risk, with a fear of falling
Wondering why we’d bother with love, if it never lasts
I say can you believe it
As we’re lying on the couch
The moment I can see it
Yes, yes
I can see it now
Do you remember when we were sitting there by the water
You put your arm around me for the first time
You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine
Fast forward and we’re taking on the world together
And there’s a drawer of my things at your place
You learn my secrets and you figure out why I’m guarded
You say we’ll never make my parent’s mistakes
We got bills to pay
We got nothing figured out
When it was hard to take
Yes, yes
This is what I thought about
Do you remember when we sitting there by the water
You put your arm around me for the first time
You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine
Do you remember all the city lights on the water
You saw I started to believe for the first time
You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine
And I remember that fight til 2:30 am
You said everything was slipping out of our hands
I went out crying and you followed me out to the streets
Brace myself for the goodbye
Cos it’s all I’ve ever know
When you took me by surprise
You said I never leave you alone
You said
I remember how we felt sitting by the water
And everytime I look at you it’s like the first time
I fell in love with acareless man’s careful daughter
She is the best thing that’s ever been mine
Hold on
Make it last
Hold on
Never turn back
You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine
Yeah, do you believe it?
Gonna make it last
And I can see it
I can see it now
NEW YORK (Billboard) – Fan anticipation is already building for Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now,” after the pop-country superstar revealed on Ustream that the follow-up to her multiplatinum album “Fearless” will be out October 25.
But anticipation of a different sort is building among music retail and label executives: Can “Speak Now” top U.S. debut-week sales of 1 million units? And if Swift can’t attain that now-elusive milestone, can anyone?
The last album to do so was Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter III,” which sold slightly more than 1 million units in its first week, the period ended June 15, 2008, and has sold 3.5 million units to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Since then, the closest any album has come to matching that performance was AC/DC’s “Black Ice,” which bowed with 784,000 units in the week ended October 24, 2008, and has sold a total of 2.2 million, according to SoundScan. Eminem’s “Recovery,” the sales champ of 2010 so far, debuted with 741,000 units in the week ended June 27 and has racked up total U.S. sales of 1.5 million, according to SoundScan.
Other highly anticipated albums to be released later this year include titles from Susan Boyle, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Linkin Park, Kid Rock, Norah Jones, Diddy and Lil Wayne.
In an informal survey of a dozen recording industry executives conducted by Billboard, Boyle, West and Wayne each drew votes as contenders for million-unit debut weeks. But most said they believe Swift has the best shot.
‘SHE COULD BE THE ONE’
“It feels like if anybody can do it now, she could be the one,” said Will Botwin, president/CEO of Red Light Management and ATO Records. “She has the sales base and heat from the last few albums. And with all the amazing things she has going on, she is as likely as anybody to reach a million units, especially with the efforts of Big Machine and Universal behind her.”
Executives at Swift’s label, Big Machine Records, and her distributor, Universal Music Group Distribution, couldn’t be reached for comment. But retail sources said UMGD expects to ship 1.5 million units for the album’s release date and that it’s projecting first-week sales of 750,000 units.
It has been confirmed that Taylor will be performing at the All for the Hall fundraiser on September 23rd!
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum’s All for the Hall fundraiser will return to Los Angeles for a second consecutive year. The event, which will take place on Thursday, September 23, at Club Nokia, will again follow a “guitar pull” format featuring performances by Country Music Hall of Fame members Emmylou Harris and Kris Kristofferson, superstar Taylor Swift, and a very special fourth chair that must remain anonymous.
The evening offers a unique opportunity to see these acclaimed singer-songwriters interact with one another as they take turns swapping songs, stories and personal recollections. The “guitar pull” is a Nashville specialty; it originated in the homes of Nashville songwriters who gathered to try out new compositions for their peers. Nashville’s most storied guitar pulls were hosted by Johnny and June Carter Cash. The hallmarks of a great guitar pull are spontaneity and camaraderie.
The Museum launched All for the Hall, its first-ever non-bricks-and-mortar fundraising campaign, in 2005. The campaign addresses the Museum’s need for long-term financial security and will provide a safety net for the institution and its work. This is the fourth year the Museum has taken its “annual giving” event on the road, hosting previous All for the Hall events in New York in 2007 and 2008 and in Los Angeles in 2009.
“This year especially, the event will provide much needed support as Nashville works to recover from the devastating impact of a once-every-500-years flood,” said Director Kyle Young. “While our exhibits and collections are all on upper floors and never in danger, flood waters did reach ‘five feet high and rising’ in our ground-floor Ford Theater.”
Last year’s event, also held at Club Nokia, featured performances by Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Dwight Yoakam and Melissa Etheridge; special guests included Chris Isaak, who also acted as host, Kara DioGuardi and Michael McDonald.
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Pollstar released the list of the top grossing tours of 2010 this week. Bon Jovi tops the list, playing 38 shows and selling more than a half million tickets for a total gross of $52.8 million. Country stars in the top 10 include Taylor Swift at #3 with $34.2 million, George Strait (with Reba McEntire and Lee Ann Womack) at #5 ,and Tim McGraw (with Lady Antebellum) at #8. See the entire list, which also includes Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Jason Aldean, and more HERE.
Chat is also on MySpace.com/TaylorSwift & Facebook.com/TaylorSwift.Fans can submit questions into the liveUstream chat window on all sites.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Singer Taylor Swift will host a live chat to talk with fans about a new album.
Swift said she’s always getting questions from fans via the Internet and social networking sites. Next Tuesday she’ll be providing answers about her follow up to “Fearless” and more.
“I‘ve gotten so many questions from fans — on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, my website, everywhere really, and it’s so incredible to see how excited everybody is about what’s next,” Swift said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. “I want them to be the first to know about my new music, and I can’t wait to talk to everybody as directly as I can!”
Swift will host the chat from Nashville at 5 p.m. EDT. Fans will be able to submit questions on Swift’s website, social networking platforms and Ustream.tv.
Swift was recently ranked No. 3 on Forbes’ list of the most powerful celebrities on social media. She has 7 million Facebook friends and 3.6 million Twitter followers.
“Fearless” was the top-selling album of 2009 and netted Swift every major award, including two Grammys.
New pictures have been released of Taylor filming the music video of her new single (rumour has it, it’s called ‘Mine’). I have added them to the gallery!
From Allie, Andrea & Jackie: Taylor Swift shooting her new music video in Cape Porpoise Maine on Thursday July 8. It was a blast to watch! Both Taylor and the guy in her video seemed to be having tons of fun and at one point where….he proposes and they kissed he looked up at the camera crew and said ‘She said no by the way.’ The scene lasted about 30 minutes and then they started filming in the house again.
X22HQ//Shooting Music Video (New Single released late-2010)
Here’s some more news about country weddings, but this time it’s only for a video: Taylor Swift got married at the Christ Church in Kennebunk, Maine, on Thursday (July
with Rev. Janet Leighninger presiding. And the groom? Who knows. Just some drop-dead gorgeous actor playing his part in Swift’s upcoming music video. Some of the folks on the scene said the song may be called “Mine,” but whatever the song is, it sounds like the video will be just as fairytale-like as some of Swift’s past work. The white-steepled church, built in 1827, was embellished with all kinds of ribbons and flowers and guest extras blowing bubbles at the “bride” and “groom.” Other scenes for the video were shot at a private estate in nearby Cape Elizabeth. According to the local news, the video should be on the air by the end of the year.
Not one to limit showing her gratitude to fans in a brief acceptance speech, Taylor Swift is going to devote an entire day to thanking her admirers.
At the June 13 CMA Music Festival, the country star will host a 13-hour meet and greet.
“My favorite thing about CMA Music Fest has always been getting to spend time with the fans,” Swift – whose Fearless tour wraps this Saturday at Boston’s Gillette Stadium – said in a statement. “So this year I waned to figure out a way to meet as many of them as possible.”
Her day will begin at 8 a.m. at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, followed by a short acoustic performance around 2 that afternoon. The event, which is free and open to the public, will wrap up at 9 p.m.
“Thirteen is my lucky number,” says Swift, 20, “and the 13th is during Music Fest, so I think spending 13 hours with my fans is going to be amazing!” (Source)
