SPEAK NOW, TREASURES FROM THE WORLD TOUR EXHIBITION TO OPEN JUNE 6EXHIBITION TO OPEN JUNE 6
Click here to see photos from the exhibit and click here to get more details at the Country Music Hall of Fame website. The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum will explore superstar Taylor Swift's record-breaking world tour with the exhibition Taylor Swift: Speak Now-Treasures from the World Tour, which opens on June 6, 2012, and runs through November 4, 2012. The exhibition will include dozens of costumes, instruments, set pieces and props from the six-time Grammy winner's acclaimed 2011-12 Speak Now World Tour, which entertained more than 1.5 million fans over 111 shows in 19 countries spanning four continents. "Taylor Swift's Speak Now tour was one of the most successful tours in all of music, and she has been an ambassador for country music, raising awareness of our genre literally around the globe," said Museum Director Kyle Young. "We are delighted to be able to bring our visitors up close and personal with many of their favorite elements from the show, from the colorful and elaborate stage costumes and beautiful instruments, to the magnificent 'Juliet balcony' that Taylor entered near the conclusion of each show and 'flew' around the circumference of each venue. Click here to see photos from the exhibit and click here to get more details at the Country Music Hall of Fame website. posted on June 1, 2012
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TAYLOR NOMINATED FOR 4 TEEN CHOICE AWARDSTaylor has been nominated for five 2012 Teen Choice Awards including Choice Female Artist, Choice Single by a Female Artist ["Eyes Open"], Choice Female Country Artist, Choice Move Voice: Audrey [Lorax], and Choice Country Song ["Sparks Fly"]. The Teen Choice Awards air live Sunday, July 22 @ 8pm ET on Fox. Each award is fan voted, so you can vote now once per day HERE!
posted on May 21, 2012
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TAYLOR HONORED AT BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDSTaylor was honored as Woman of the Year at Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards live from Las Vegas! Check out a clip of her acceptance speech below and read more about the award here.
posted on May 21, 2012
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TAYLOR PLEDGES $4 MILLION TO FUND NEW EDUCATION CENTER @ COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAMESix-time Grammy Award winner Taylor Swift pledged $4 million to fund a new education center at the Country Music Hall of Fame(r) and Museum. The more than 7,500-square foot space, which will encompass parts of two floors and feature three classrooms...
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TAYLOR NOMINATED FOR THREE CMT MUSIC AWARDSTaylor is nominated for 3 CMT Music Awards including Video of the Year for "Safe & Sound" featuring the Civil Wars, Female Video of the Year for "Ours", and Collaborative Video of the Year for "Safe & Sound" featuring the Civil Wars! You can vote online at CMT.com now through June 4. And be sure to tune in Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 8/7 PM CT to catch the awards live and vote for Taylor for Video of the Year during the live telecast!
posted on April 23, 2012
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TAYLOR CELEBRATES 5TH CONSECUTIVE #1 FROM SPEAK NOW6-time GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift is at the top of the Billboard chart this week as her single “Ours” ascends to the #1 position on the Top Country Songs chart. “Ours” is the fifth single, and fifth consecutive #1 song, from her 5x Platinum-plus Speak Nowalbum, released in October of 2010 on Big Machine Records. The album’s previous #1 songs were “Mine,” “Back To December,” “Mean,” and “Sparks Fly.”
On Sunday evening, Taylor performed the 111th and final show of her 13-month blockbuster Speak Now World Tour, playing to a capacity crowd for the third consecutive night in Auckland, New Zealand’s Vector Arena. The tour visited stadiums and arenas in 19 countries spanning four continents, with the New Zealand Herald writing of the final show, “When she came out the room exploded, and she opened super-strong. The set heats up and stays strong …one of the best things about the show is how inclusive it feels - like she would sing personally for everyone on the arena if she could….while as a production it dwarfs any other arena show I've seen. One thing abundantly clear to all concerned was that we're unlikely to witness a show like that again in a long, long time. Maybe ever.” Taylor holds the #1, #2, #5 and #8 positions on Australia’s Aria Top 20 Country Albums sales chart this week. Taylor has two songs on the soundtrack album The Hunger Games – Songs From District 12 and Beyond, which is currently #1 on the iTunes Albums Chart. In addition, she voices the character of Audrey in Dr. Seuss’s The LORAX, which is this year’s top grossing movie to date, with a box office total in excess of $158 million. Taylor is nominated for three 2012 Academy of Country Music Awards: Entertainer of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, and Video of the Year. She is also up for Favorite Female Singer and Favorite Song at the 25th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards.She is featured on the April cover of Harper’s Bazaar Australia, and was on the cover of Voguein February. Taylor is the reigning Billboard Woman of the Year and the AMA Artist of the Year. She is both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association’s current Entertainer of the Year, and now has more than 11.8 million Twitter followers (@taylorswift13) and 29 million Facebook friends. posted on March 22, 2012
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"EYES OPEN" NOW AVAILABLE ON ITUNES!Taylor's second song, "Eyes Open", from the freshly released Hunger Games soundtrack is now available on iTunes! Be sure to check it out HERE!
posted on March 20, 2012
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TAYLOR PLAYS 100TH SHOW OF SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR6-time GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift kicked off the final leg of her blockbuster SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR in Australia over the weekend, electrifying capacity crowds and impressing critics -- on Friday at Perth’s Burswood Dome, and at the 100th show of the tour on Sunday at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.
The Sunday Times (Perth) dubbed Taylor’s show “dazzling,” writing that she “had 16,000 people in the palm of her hand.” Adelaide Now said Taylor “delighted the crowd” and “was at her best….genuinely loving being on stage…..letting her vocal cords wow the crowd.” Taylor played 98 shows in stadiums and arenas in 17 countries around the globe in 2011, and the tour concludes this month with 12 shows in Australia and New Zealand. “Ours,” the 5th single released from Taylor’s now 5x-Platinum Speak Now album (Big Machine Records), continues to grow at radio, ascending into the Top 5 of both the Billboard and Country Aircheck / Mediabase charts this week. The album’s prior four singles all reached #1. The video for “Ours” is spending its 7th week at #1 on the CMT chart, and also reached #1 on the GAC chart, as well as Australia’s CMC chart. The “Ours” single has been certified Gold, with current sales topping 850,000. Taylor voices the character of Audrey in Dr. Seuss’s The LORAX, which this weekend earned $70.7 million, scoring the biggest box-office debut of the year. The film also achieved the biggest opening of any Dr. Seuss adaptation, topping 2000’s How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Taylor is nominated for three 2012 Academy of Country Music Awards: Entertainer of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, and Video of the Year. She is also up for Favorite Female Singer and Favorite Song at the 25th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards. She is featured on the April cover of Harper’s Bazaar Australia, and was on the cover of Vogue in February. Taylor is the reigning Billboard Woman of the Year and the AMA Artist of the Year. She is both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association’s current Entertainer of the Year, and now has more than 11.4 million Twitter followers (@taylorswift13) and 29 million Facebook friends. posted on March 5, 2012
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