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Taylor Swift’s 40 Biggest Hot 100 Hits
Few artists have earned the chart hits, fan support and critical acclaim that Taylor Swift enjoys. Emerging as a country singer-songwriter on her 2006 self-titled debut before branching out into the worlds of pop music, indie folk and beyond, Swift has notched eight No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100, inspired a dedicated legion of Swifties and won the Grammy for album of the year three times — for Fearless, 1989 and Folklore; She is just the fourth person, and the first woman, to win that prestigious Grammy three times. In 2019, Swift was honored as Billboard‘s first ever Woman of the Decade at our 2019 Women In Music event, not just for her commercial success, but for her commitment to protecting creative rights, music education, literacy programs, cancer research, disaster relief and the T...
U2, Pixies, Foo Fighters and Taylor Swift Highlight Record Store Day 2022 Releases
Record Store Day has just released the list of exclusive pressings that will be available on April 23. In case supply chain issues get in the way of the planned date in April, a safety net’ date of June 18th was established as a backup. This year returns to the normal Record Store Day format since there will be a single date instead of the two “Drop” dates that took place in 2020 and 2021. Even with a single date, the list of exclusive releases is no less exciting. U2, Pixies, David Bowie Foo Fighters, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, St. Vincent, Prince, Stevie Nicks, and Lou Reed, among many more, will release limited edition vinyl. Taylor Swift, the Record Store Day 2022 global ambassador, will release a seven-inch pressing of her bonus track “the lakes” from 2020’s folklore. U2 will celebrat...
Taylor Swift Rebukes Damon Albarn: ‘Your Hot Take Is Completely False and SO Damaging’
Damon Albarn is slated to perform at the Walt Disney Hall tonight in Los Angeles. Ahead of the one-off show, the Blur/Gorillaz frontman gave an interview to the Los Angeles Times. In it, he lofted praise upon Billie Eilish, saying that he thinks she’s “exceptional.” However, he didn’t think the same of Taylor Swift. Albarn said that “she doesn’t write her own songs.” And that “co-writing is very different.” Swift caught wind of Albarn’s comments and responded on Twitter, saying: “@DamonAlbarn I was such a big fan of yours until I saw this,” Swift said. “I write ALL of my own songs. Your hot take is completely false and SO damaging. You don’t have to like my songs but it’s really fucked up to try and discredit my writing. WOW.” @DamonAlbarn I was such a big fan of yours until I saw thi...
Taylor Swift Is Record Store Day’s First-Ever Global Ambassador
After releasing two albums per year for the past two years, Taylor Swift was named Record Store Day’s first-ever Global Ambassador for 2022. Aside from moving lots of her own vinyl, Swift has a history of supporting independent record stores. In past years, Jack White, Dave Grohl, Pearl Jam, St. Vincent, and Run The Jewels have all been appointed ambassadors, but Swift marks the first Global one. She is also the third female RSD ambassador, following St. Vincent and Brandi Carlile, who was 2020’s selection. In the statement on Record Store Day’s website, Swift said: I’m very proud to be this year’s Global Ambassador for Record Store Day. The places where we go to browse and explore and discover music new and old have always been sacred to me. Record stores are so important because they hel...
Staff Picks: The Albums and Songs We Loved in 2021
The late, great Lester Bangs once wrote that we will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis. And he was basically right until Lil Nas X came sliding down the stripper-pole to Hell. Oh, 2021. You rocked us like a damn sociopath. What an insanely exciting, emotional, and reinvigorating year for music. President Biden took office and made Olivia Rodrigo an ambassador. We had Hot Vax Summer and Sad Girl Fall (Taylor’s Version.) Live music came back and Dave Grohl never left. Noobs ruled songwriting. Doja Cat ruled the planet. We brought back the electric guitar (all the rumors are true, baby), 2000s pop-punk, and Adele. We freed Britney. Halsey freed the nipple. And we all somehow found out about a Baltimore rock quintet called Turnstile. It’s all in SPIN‘s lists for Best Songs of...
Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent Are No Longer Grammy Nominated for Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour
When the nominees for the Grammys were announced last month, Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent received nods for Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour. The trio were credited as songwriters on the album. On Sunday, the Recording Academy announced on its website that the trio’s nominations were removed from the Album of the Year category. On the Grammy’s site, the Recording Academy said the following when it comes to changing nominations: Each year, the Recording Academy makes adjustments to the nominations list as-necessary after the list is first published. Common changes are often the result of updated credits and may include spelling corrections, title modifications, and the addition of nominees who were not included in the original submission, among other revisions. This year, for ...
The Surprises, Snubs, and Changing Rules for This Year’s Grammy Nominations
On Tuesday morning, the Recording Academy revealed the full slate of nominations for the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. Over the past few tumultuous years, the Recording Academy has overseen changes in leadership and nominating procedures, with one more twist being announced just this morning before the nominations were unveiled: the Big Four general field categories (Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist) would grow from 8 to 10 nominees each. This is the second expansion in recent years, with only five nominees in those categories through 2018. The 10 nominees for Album of the Year include on-again-off-again rival superstars Kanye West and Taylor Swift. West, who was nominated for Album of the Year for each of his first three albums, has not been in the...
Listen to Taylor Swift’s ‘All Too Well (Sad Girl Autumn Version)’
Just when you think Taylor Swift‘s “All Too Well” couldn’t get any sadder, it just did. The song, which appears on the recently released Red (Taylor’s Version), has yet another version. In a post on her social media accounts on Wednesday afternoon, Swift shared “All Too Well (Sad Girl Autumn Version).” The song was recorded at Long Pond Studios in Upstate New York with “besties” Aaron Dessner of The National and Jon Low. Swift said she drove up to the studio to record the song. One of the saddest songs I’ve ever written just got sadder 🙃Drove up to Long Pond Studios to record All Too Well (Sad Girl Autumn Version) with the besties @aaron_dessner @heyjonlow https://t.co/UnbELgJGAi pic.twitter.com/Z1XK2zQkwf — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) November 18, 2021 This past Saturday, Swift ...
Taylor Swift Drops Live Acoustic Version of 10-Minute ‘All Too Well’ Performance
The Taylor’s Version of Red is the gift that keeps on giving. Taylor Swift has dropped the live acoustic version of “All Too Well” that appears on the just-released Red (Taylor’s Version) album. The recording is taken from last week’s premiere of the epic Sadie Sink/Dylan O’Brien video for the single at the AMC 13 Lincoln Square in Manhattan; Swift wrote and directed the short film. In a tweet, Swift said that the live version marked the first-ever performance of the song, tracked in front of an audience of 400 fans. The singer also played the epic iteration of the tune on Saturday Night Live over the weekend. The 30-track Red (Taylor’s Version) launched in a major way last week, putting up the biggest first-day streams by a female artist ever on Spotify with 90.8 million global streams; t...
Taylor Swift Wedding Crashes in ‘I Bet You Think About Me’ Video
Finally out from the vaults, Taylor Swift released “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version)” with a video directed by actress Blake Lively. The song is one of the nine unreleased songs on her re-recorded album, Red (Taylor’s Version). The song also features vocals from country star Chris Stapleton. [embedded content][embedded content] The video shows Swift attempting to win over the character played by Whiplash star Miles Teller. She crashes his wedding, wearing only bright and fitting red outfits. The new video follows Swift’s other new video, the “All Too Well: The Short Film” featuring Dylan O’Brian and Sadie Sink, which was also released on November 12. Swift stopped at The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and Late Night With Seth Myers on the same night to discuss all of her ne...
Watch Taylor Swift Perform 10-Minute-Long Version of ‘All Too Well’ on SNL
Taylor Swift performed on Saturday Night Live for the fifth time last night and did something completely unprecedented. Instead of partaking in the two-performance format, that the show is known for, she sang one song “that is the length of three songs” and treated fans to the 10-minute-long version of “All Too Well,” which appears on her just-released album, Red (Taylor’s Version) (and was accompanied by its own short film). The short film that was written, directed and featured Swift played in the background as she performed the song, which concluded with fake snow falling. Unlike other performers, Swift went for the one-song route with this performance. [embedded content][embedded content] She also appeared in a video with Pete Davidson titled Three Sad Virgins. In it, they ro...
Taylor Swift Remakes Heartbreak Odyssey With Red (Taylor’s Version)
Red was already Taylor Swift’s greatest album, her bittersweet spot between the confessional heartache that defined the megastar’s earliest songwriting and the stadium-pop grandeur that would inform her next trio of colossal LPs (1989, Reputation and Lover). It was the ultimate millennial breakup album, a touchstone of lovelorn devastation, fury, hope and reflection for all those suburban teens and twenty-somethings similarly figuring their shit out — the era of “happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time.” And of course, Red, released in 2012, was a commercial mammoth; seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, certified seven times platinum and earning Swift her first Hot 100 No. 1 single in “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.” It was the project that planted her...
