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1、Taylor Alison Swift(born December 13, 1989 ) is an Americancountry pop1singer-songwriter,musicianandactress.In 2006, she released发布，发行 her debut初次登台 single Tim McGraw, then herself-titled debutalbum, which was subsequently 随后certifiedmulti-platinum白金by theRecording Industry Association of Americaand
2、 was nominated for theBest New Artistaward at50th Grammy Awards. In November 2008, Swift released her second album,Fearless, and the recording earned Swift fourGrammy Awards, including theAlbum of the Year年度专辑奖, at the52nd Grammy Awards.FearlessandTaylor Swiftfinished 2008 at number-three and number
3、-six respectively分别，依次, with sales of 2.1 and 1.5 million.5Fearlesstopped theBillboard200for 11 non-consecutive weeks;6no album has spent more time at No. 1 since 2000. Swift was namedArtist of the Year年度最佳歌手byBillboard Magazinein 2009.7Swift released her third albumSpeak Nowon October 25, 2010 whic
4、h sold 1,047,000 copies in its first week.In 2008, her albums sold a combined four million copies, making her the best-selling musician of the year in the United States, according toNielsen SoundScan.Forbes福布斯ranked Swift 2009s 69th-most powerful celebrity with earnings of $18 million8and 2010s 12th
5、-most powerful celebrity with earnings of $45 million.9Swift was ranked the 38th Best Artist of the 200010 decade byBillboard.10In January 2010Nielsen SoundScanlisted Swift as the most commercially successful country (or country/pop crossover) artist in music history with over 33 million digital tra
6、cks sold.11As of February 2011, she has sold over 20 million albums and 33 million singles worldwide.1213Early lifeSwift was born on December 13, 1989 inWyomissing,Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Andrea Gardner (neFinlay), ahomemaker, and Scott Kingsley Swift, astockbroker. Her maternal grandmo
7、ther, Majorie Finlay, was anoperasinger.1415Swift has a younger brother, Austin.16When Swift was in fourth grade, she won a national poetry contest with a three-page poem entitled Monster In My Closet.1517At the age of ten, a computer repairman showed her how to play three chords on a guitar, sparki
8、ng her interest in learning the instrument. Afterwards, Swift wrote her first song, Lucky You.18She began writing songs regularly and used it as an outlet to help her with her pain from not fitting in at school. She was a victim ofbullying, and often wrote songs to express her emotions.19She also st
9、arted performing atkaraokecontests, festivals, and fairs around her hometown. When Swift was 12, she devoted an entire summer to writing a 350-page novel, which remains unpublished.20Her first major show was a well-received performance at theBloomsburg Fair.21Swift attendedHendersonville High School
10、but was subsequently homeschooled for her junior and senior years. In 2008, she earned her high school diploma.22Swifts greatest musical influence isShania Twain.23Her other influences includeLeAnn Rimes,Tina Turner,Dolly Parton, and her grandmother. Although her grandmother was a professional opera
11、 singer,24Swifts tastes always leaned more toward country music. In her younger years, she developed a love forPatsy Clineand Dolly Parton.25She also credits theDixie Chicksfor demonstrating the impact you can make by stretching boundaries.26Music career200005: Musical beginningsAt age 11, Swift mad
12、e her first trip toNashville, hoping to obtain a record deal by distributing a demo tape of her singing with karaoke songs. She gave a copy to every label in town,27but was rejected.28After Swift returned toPennsylvania, she was asked to sing at theU.S. Open tennistournament, where her rendition of
13、thenational anthemreceived much attention.29Swift started writing songs and playing 12-string guitar when she was 12. Swift began to regularly visit Nashville and wrote songs with local songwriters. By the time she was 14, her family decided to move to an outlying Nashville suburb.30When Swift was 1
14、5, she rejectedRCA Recordsbecause the company wanted to keep her on anartist development deal.31After performing at Nashvilles songwriters venue,The Bluebird Caf, she caught the attention of Scott Borchetta,32who signed her to his newly formed record label,Big Machine Records. At age 14, she became
15、the youngest staff songwriter ever hired by theSony/ATV Tree publishing house.33Swift performing at a caf with akoa woodguitar in June 2006. Swift continues to perform with custom-madeTaylor guitars.34Swift released her debut single, Tim McGraw, in mid-2006, reaching #6 onBillboardmagazinesHot Count
16、ry Songschart.35Herself-titled debut albumwas later released on October 24, 2006.36Debuting high on theBillboard200, the album sold 39,000 copies during its first week.37It peaked at #1 on the BillboardTop Country Albumsand #5 on theBillboard200.38Her debut album spent eight consecutive weeks at the
17、 top of theTop Country Albumscharts39and remained at the top for 24 out of 91 weeks.40The only other country artists this decade to achieve the number-one sales position for 20 weeks or more areThe Dixie ChicksandCarrie Underwood.41The music video for Tim McGraw won Swift an award for Breakthrough V
18、ideo of the Year at the 2007 CMT Music Awards.42Her pursuit of country music stardom was the subject of GAC Short Cuts, a part-documentary, part-music-video series airing since the summer of 2006.43On May 15, 2007, Swift performed Tim McGraw at theAcademy of Country Music Awards. Swift has been an o
19、pening act for Tim McGraw andFaith Hillon theirSoul2Soul 2007tour. She has opened in the past forGeorge Strait,Brad PaisleyandRascal Flattsas well.44The second single from theTaylor Swiftalbum, Teardrops on My Guitar, was released February 24, 2007. In mid-2007, the song peaked at #2 on BillboardsHo
20、t Country Songschart and #33 on theBillboardHot 100. The song was re-released with apopremix that brought Teardrops on My Guitar to #13 on the Hot 100 and #11 on the Pop 100. In October 2007, Swift was awarded Songwriter/Artist of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Assn. Intl., making her the you
21、ngest artist ever to win the award.45Her third song off her debut album, Our Song spent six weeks at #1 on the Country charts, peaked at #16 on theBillboardHot 100, and rose to #24 on theBillboardPop 100. Swift recorded a holiday album,Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection,which
22、was released exclusively atTargetin late 2007. Swift was nominated for a 2008Grammy Awardin the category of Best New Artist, but lost toAmy Winehouse. Swifts successful single, Picture to Burn, was the fourth single from her debut album. The song debuted and soon peaked at #3 on the Billboard Countr
23、y chart in spring 2008.Swift performing atYahooHQ in 2007.Shouldve Said No became Swifts second #1 single. In Summer 2008, Swift releasedBeautiful Eyes, an EP sold exclusively atWal-Mart.46In its first week of release, the album sold 45,000 copies, debuting at #1 onBillboards Top Country Albums char
24、t and #9 on theBillboard200. With her self-titled debut album sitting at #2 during the same week, Swift became the first artist since 1997 to hold the Top 2 positions of the Top Country Albums chart.47In October 2008, Swift performed a duet with best selling rock bandDef Leppardin a taped show inNas
25、hville, Tennessee, and their collaboration was up for both Performance of the Year and Wide Open Country Video of the Year at theCMT Music Awardsin 2009.48Swifts second studio album,Fearless, was released in the United States on November 11, 2008.49The album debuted at #1 on theBillboard200 Album Ch
26、art. Its sales of 592,304 were the highest debut of any country artist in 2008. This is also the largest opening U.S. sales week in 2008 by a female artist in all genres of music, and the fourth biggest overall behindLil Wayne,AC/DCandColdplay.50Its lead single Love Story became a hit on both the co
27、untry and pop charts. During the first week of release, more than 129,000 of Swifts sales were sold digitally. This gives Swift the best online start for any country album in history.51It also makes Swift the fourth biggest week for a digital album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking them in 2004
28、.52Through its eighth week of release,Fearlesshas sold more than 338,467 downloads, making it the bestselling country album in digital history. In second place is Swifts debutTaylor Swiftwith sales of 236,046 downloads as of April 18, 2009.53In its debut week, seven songs in total onFearlesswere cha
29、rted onBillboardHot 100, tying Swift withMiley Cyrusfor the most by a female artist in a single week. With White Horse charted at #13, this gave Swift her sixth top 20 debut of 2008, a calendar year record for any artist in the history of theBillboardHot 100. Of the 13 tracks onFearless, 11 have alr
30、eady spent time on the Hot 100.52Change, a song from the album, was selected as part of a soundtrack supporting Team USAs efforts in the2008 Summer Olympics.54The song was also featured as part of the soundtrack ofNBCsbroadcast package of the Olympics. The lead single from the album, Love Story, was
31、 released on September 12, 2008. The Fearless album includes the Love Story music video which is based onRomeo and Juliet. The song has reached #2 on iTunes Store Top Downloaded Songs and #4 on theBillboardHot 100. Fifteen weeks after being added to pop radio, Love Story also became the first countr
32、y crossover recording to hit number one on the Nielsen BDS CHR/Top 40 chart in the 16-year-history of the list, as well as number one on the Mediabase Top 40 Chart.55The second single fromFearless, White Horse, was released on December 8, 2008. The music video for the song premiered onCMTon February
33、 7, 2009. Though it missed the #1 spot on BillboardsHot Country Songsas of the week April 11, 2009, White Horse claimed the #1 spot atop the USA Today/Country Aircheck chart (powered by Mediabase) in that week.56Forever & Always, another song from the album, was based on Swifts relationship with sin
34、gerJoe Jonas.57She was the first artist in the history ofNielsen SoundScanto have two different albums in the Top 10 on the year end album chart.5It also was the first album by a female artist in country music history to log eight weeks at #1 on TheBillboard200. In mid-January 2009, Swift became the
35、 first country artist to top the 2 million mark in paid downloads with three different songs.58Swift isBillboards Top Country Artist and Hot Country Songwriter of 2008; she is also country musics best-selling artist of 2008.59Swift ranked seventh on Nielsen SoundScan Canadas top-10 selling artists a
36、cross all genres in 2008.FearlessandTaylor Swifttook the #1 and #2 slots on 2008 Year-End Canadian Country Albums Chart.60Swift sang theStar-Spangled Bannerat game three of theWorld SeriesinPhiladelphiaon October 25, 2008.Swift performing as the headlining act at the 2010Cavendish Beach Music Festiv
37、alinPrince Edward Island,Canada.In January 2009, Swift announced her North AmericanFearless Tourplanned for 52 cities in 38 states and provinces in the US and Canada over the span of 6 months.61The tour kicked off April 23 inEvansville, Indiana. In the same month, Swift made her first musical guest
38、appearance onSaturday Night Live.6263On February 8, 2009, Swift performed her song Fifteen withMiley Cyrusat the51st Grammy Awards. As of the week ending February 8, 2009, Swifts single Love Story became the country song with the most paid downloads in history.6465Since the release of Swifts second
39、album,Fearless, she has released one new song Crazier for thesoundtrackof the feature filmHannah Montana: The Movie. At the 44th AnnualAcademy of Country Music Awards, Swift picked up Album of the Year honors as a performer and producer forFearless. Swift is the youngest artist in history to win the
40、 ACMAlbum of the Yearaward. The Academy lauded her for career achievements including selling more albums in 2008 than any other artist in any genre of music, the breakthrough success of her debut album, and the worldwide crossover success of her #1 single Love Story. The Academy also cited Swifts co
41、ntribution to helping country music attract a younger audience.66As of late April 2009, Swift has sold more than 14 million downloads, as well as three Gold Mobile Ringtones.67On April 28, 2009, Swift gave a free, private concert to students atBishop Ireton High School, a small Catholic school inAle
42、xandria, Virginia after the school won a national TXT 2 WIN contest fromVerizon Wireless.68The students sent over 19,000 text messages to Verizon during a roughly one month long contest. Swift played for about an hour during the schools field day, an annual day-long recess with games and activities.
43、 On October 8, 2009 Swifts official website announced that her sold-out Fearless Tour would return to North America for 37 additional dates in 2010.West taking the microphone from Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.Scheduled to perform on September 13, 2009, Swift attended the2009 MTV Video Mu
44、sic Awards. This was her first VMA performance, where she became the first country music artist to win an MTV Video Music Award.69During the show, as Swift was on stage accepting the award for Best Female Video for You Belong with Me, singer/rapperKanye Westcame on stageand took the microphone from
45、Swift, saying thatBeyoncs video for Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), nominated for the same award, was one of the best videos of all time, an action that caused the many audience members to boo West.7071He handed the microphone back to a stunned and reportedly upset Swift, who did not finish her ac
46、ceptance speech.7072When Beyonc later won the award for Best Video of the Year for Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), she called Swift up on stage so that she could finish her acceptance speech.7073Following the awards show, West apologized for his verbal outburst in a blog entry (which was subsequen
47、tly removed).70He was criticized by various celebrities for the outburst,7174757677and even byPresidentBarack Obamain an off the record comment.78798081He later posted a second apology on his blog and made his first public apology one day after the incident on the debut episode ofThe Jay Leno Show.71On September 15, 2009, Swift talked about the matter onThe View, where she said she was at first excited to see West on stage and then disappointed once he acted out.8283She said West had not spoken to her following the incident.83Following her appearance onThe View, West contacted her to apolo
