Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. 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", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Taylor Swift is Record Store Day 2022's global ambassador: "Record stores have always been sacred to me"
officialcharts.comTaylor Swift has been unveiled as the Global Ambassador for Record Store Day 2022. 15 years ago when the first Record Store Day took place, Taylor was just at the start of her career, on the cusp of releasing her second album Fearless.
Now, both Record Store Day and Taylor have grown - Record Store Day is the largest single-day music event in the world and Taylor Swift is...
well... Taylor Swift, an artist whose success has transcended genre and culture to become truly ubiquitous. In the past, Taylor has helped to drop several special-edition releases for Record Store Day and Record Store Day Black Friday events, but now she takes centre-stage to become the first-ever Global Ambassador for Record Store Day. “I’m very proud to be this year’s Ambassador for Record Store Day,” Taylor said in a statement. “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 help to perpetuate and foster music-loving as a passion.” RSD co-founder Carrie Colliton says: “We’re pretty picky about the people we invite to “wear the sash”, and we always want to make sure those Ambassadors genuinely love record stores and are creative about ways to celebrate them.
For our first Global Ambassador, we’re teaming up with a woman who does all that and just happens to be one of the biggest artists on the planet.” Taylor has a great history of both supporting record stores and the physical music industry - the vinyl editions of Red (Taylor's Version), Evermore and Folklore were even three of the best-selling vinyl albums of 2021, and there will also be news about a special RSD 2022 release coming from Taylor in due course.
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