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Taylor swift ( Awards and achievements )

Awards and achievements Swift has received many awards and honors, including 10  Grammy Awards , 19  American Music Awards ,11  Country Music Association Awards , 8  Academy of Country Music Awards , 22  Billboard Music Awards , 1  Brit Award  and 1  Emmy . Swift is also the second most awarded artist at the  Teen Choice Awards , with 25 awards. As a songwriter, she has been honored by the  Nashville Songwriters Association  and the  Songwriters Hall of Fame . By the beginning of 2016, Swift had sold more than 40 million albums, 130 million single downloads and was one of the top five music artists with the highest worldwide digital sales.Each of Swift's studio albums had sold at least four million units in the U.S.:  Taylor Swift  (5.5 million),  Fearless  (7.0 million),  Speak Now  (4.5 million),  Red  (4.1 million), and  1989  (5.7 million).

Taylor swift (Acting)

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Acting Swift at the premiere of Hannah Montana: The Movie in 2009 Swift made her acting debut in a 2009 episode of  CBS 's  CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , playing a rebellious teenager. [402]   The New York Times noted that the character allowed Swift to be "a little bit naughty, and credibly so". [403]   Rolling Stone  felt she "held her own" and "does a good job with the script" [404]  while the  Chicago Tribune  said she "acquits herself well". [405]  Later that year, Swift both hosted and performed as the musical guest for an episode of  Saturday Night Live . [406]   Entertainment Weekly  described her as "this season's best Saturday Night Live host so far", noting that she "was always up for the challenge, seemed to be having fun, and helped the rest of the cast nail the punchlines". Proving "admirably resilient in a wide variety of sketch roles", she "inspired more of a female, girly-

Taylor swift ( 1989 )

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1989 Swift performing on  The 1989 World Tour  in  Detroit Swift's fifth studio album,  1989 , was released on October 27, 2014. [220]  Swift wrote one song alone, and co-wrote the remaining 12 with Antonoff, Martin, Shellback,  Imogen Heap ,  Ryan Tedder  and Ali Payami. [221] [222]  Martin and Swift served as executive co-producers while Chapman, Antonoff, Heap, Tedder, Payami and  Greg Kurstin  produced individual tracks. [223]  Musically, it has been described as an album "driven by synths and drums in lieu of guitar". [224]  Swift herself described  1989  as her first "official" pop release. [225] [226] The critical response to  1989  was frequently positive. Sheffield of  Rolling Stone  noted: "Deeply weird, feverishly emotional, wildly enthusiastic,  1989  sounds exactly like Taylor Swift, even when it sounds like nothing she's ever tried before." [227]  Molly Lambert of Grantland  remarked that the "late-'80s album  1

Taylor Swift ( Fearless )

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Fearless Swift's second studio album,  Fearless , was released on November 11, 2008. Swift wrote seven of the album's songs alone, and co-wrote the remaining six with songwriters Rose, John Rich ,  Colbie Caillat  and  Hillary Lindsey . [90]  She co-produced the album with Nathan Chapman. [90]  Musically, it has been said that the record is characterized by "loud, lean guitars and rousing choruses", with the occasional "bit of fiddle and banjo tucked into the mix". Caramanica of  The New York Times  described Swift as "one of pop's finest songwriters, country's foremost pragmatist and more in touch with her inner life than most adults". [92] Josh Love of  The Village Voice  felt she displayed "preternatural wisdom and inclusiveness", "masterfully avoiding the typical diarist's pitfalls of trite banality and pseudo-profound bullshit". [93]   Jody Rosen  of  Rolling Stone  described her as "a songwriting sav

Taylor Swift (Intro)

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Taylor Alison Swift  (born December 13, 1989) is an American  singer-songwriter . Raised in  Wyomissing, Pennsylvania , she moved to  Nashville, Tennessee , at the age of 14 to pursue a career in  country music . She signed with the independent label  Big Machine Records  and became the youngest songwriter ever signed by the  Sony/ATV Music publishing house . The release of Swift's eponymous debut album  in 2006 marked the start of her career as a country music singer. Her third single, " Our Song ", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the  Hot Country Songs ch art .                                                          Swift's second album,  Fearless , was released in 2008. Buoyed by the  pop crossover  success of the singles " Love Story " and " You Belong with Me ",  Fearless  became the best-selling album of 2009 in the United States. The album won four  Grammy Awards , making Swift th