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Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an country pop singer-songwriter, guitar player and actress. In 2006, she achieved her first appearance single "Tim McGraw", which peaked at number six on the Billboard charts. Afterwards, October 2006, she published her self-titled debut album, which brought on five hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and was manifested 3× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA.
The NY Times represented Swift as "one of pop's top-quality songwriters, country’s foremost pragmatist and more in touch with her internal life than most adults".
Reported to Nielsen SoundScan, Swift was the leading commercial artist on 2008 in America with blended sales of more than 4 million albums. Swift's Fearless and her self-titled album finished 2008 at number three and number six respectively, with sales of 2.1 and 1.5 million. She was the first artist in the history of Nielsen SoundScan to have 2 dissimilar record albums in the Top 10 on the year end album chart. Fearless has topped the Billboard 200 in 11 non-consecutive weeks. No album has spent more time at number one since 1999-2000. It also was the first record album by a female artist in country and western history to log eight weeks at #1 on The Billboard 200. In mid-January 2009, Swift became the first country artist to top the 2 million mark in paid downloads with three different songs. As of the week ending February 8, 2009, Swift's single "Love Story" became the country song with most paid downloads in history and the first country song to top the Mainstream Top 40 chart.[7][8] According to the 2009 issue of Forbes, Swift is graded as the 69th most herculean famous person with over $18 million in earnings this year.
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