Taylor uppträder på VMA 2014
Taylor Swift may be spending most of her time in New York these days, but she'll be heading west at the end of next month.
I've just learned that the pop music superstar will perform at this year's MTV Video Music Awards in L.A.! Swift is planning an "explosive" performance for the Moonman extravaganza, one source said. Exact details are being kept under wraps, but I do know that Swift will be hitting the stage by herself. "It's not a collaboration with another singer," the source said.
So will Taylor be debuting a new song? We sure hope so!
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Taylor på plats två på Highest Paid Country Artist lista
Still only 24 years old, Swift fell just short of the top spot on this year’s Country Cash Kings list, but her $64 million haul is her best year yet. She earns the bulk of her bucks from touring, also cashing in on endorsements for Diet Coke, Keds and CoverGirl. Earlier this year the crossover star was honored at the CMAs with the Pinnacle Award, which has only been given to one other artist: Garth Brooks.
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Forbes’ Celebrity 100: Most Powerful Celebrities 2014
Only 24 years old, Swift is making her fifth appearance on the FORBES Celebrity 100 with her highest earnings to date: $64 million. Swift's latest, "Red," was shut out at the Grammy Awards but the cross-over star was honored with the Pinnacle Award at the latest Country Music Association Awards for her success. The award has only been given to one other person, singer Garth Brooks. Swift also earns with endorsements for Diet Coke, Keds and CoverGirl.
Taylor donerar 50.000$ till ett center för barncancer
Taylor Swift's gift will bring high-tech music therapy to teens at the children's hospital of Philadelphia's cancer center
PHILADELPHIA, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) announced a $50,000 gift from seven-time GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift, which will be used to create specialized programming for teens with cancer treated at CHOP’s Cancer Center. The first initiative will be to establish a high-tech music therapy cart for teens to create and produce their own music while they go through cancer treatment.
"We are thrilled that Taylor Swift has chosen to support The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Cancer Center," said Steven M. Altschuler, MD, chief executive officer of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. "Her gift will help lift the spirits of many CHOP patients during a difficult time."
"Taylor Swift’s music is an inspiration to so many of our teen patients," said Lamia Barakat, Ph.D., psychologist and director of the Psychosocial Services Program at CHOP’s Cancer Center. "We can think of no better way to use her gift than to grow our Adolescent and Young Adult initiative designed to support the emotional well-being of our teens with cancer."
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Tree Paine är Taylors nya publicist
Taylor att medverka i Food Network
Billboard Money Makers
In theater, a triple threat is an artist who has the chops to sing, dance and act. It's a different ballgame in the music biz, where touring and the two avenues of sales (physical and digital) reign supreme. In that regard, there's no artist more threat-ening than pop-country juggernaut Taylor Swift, who crushed it on nearly every level in the past year, and claims the top spot on Billboard's annual Money Makersrich list.Swift proved adept at capturing revenue from every angle this year, earning a whopping $39,699,575.60. Fueled by 2012's "Red," the singer's album sales were eighth among all of Billboard's Money Makers, while on the digital front she sold nearly 10 million downloads, ranking sixth, and fifth in streaming royalties -- tops in country music.
Intervju i Time Magazine
Nashville is more than the heart of Taylor Swift’s business, it’s her home. But the city she came to as 13-year-old aspiring singer has grown far beyond its musical roots; it’s now an economic and cultural powerhouse. TIME’s Alex Rogers spoke to Swift about her favorite city for this week’s magazine feature which looks at the unique alchemy that makes Nashville both a classic American city and a modern success story. Here are excerpts of their conversation.
TIME: Why did you decide to live in Nashville?
SWIFT: I decided to move to Nashville when I was about 10 years old. I was obsessed with watching biography TV shows about Faith Hill and Shania Twain, and I noticed that both of them went to Nashville to start their careers. From that point on, I began relentlessly nagging, begging, and pleading with my parents to take me on a trip there. When I was 11, my mom took my brother and me to Nashville on spring break and we drove up and down Music Row. She would wait in the car as I scampered into record labels one by one, handing my demo CD to the receptionists. I remember thinking it was so odd and wonderful that all of these important record labels were all on one street, most of them in small buildings and old houses. I remember being charmed by how kind people were to strangers and newcomers like us. We took more and more trips to Nashville as time went by, and when at 13, I was offered a development deal by a major record label, my parents gave in and we moved from Pennsylvania.
Fem ACMs nomineringar
- Vocal Event of the Year (Highway Don’t Care)
- Video of the Year (Highway Don’t Care)
- Single Record of the Year (Highway Don’t Care)
- Female Vocalist of the Year
- Entertainer of the Year
Billboardintervju om Ed
It’s a crowded field for Best New Artist at this year’s GRAMMYs. Ed Sheeran,James Blake, Kacey Musgraves, Kendrick Lamar, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis all bring convincing arguments to the table, from very different corners of the music world, no less. But Taylor Swift had no trouble making up her mind. For her, it’s all about touring comrade/collaborator Sheeran, and Billboard caught up with Swift to get the details.
"I want him to win everything he’s ever up for," the singer says. "He’s one of my favorite people on the planet. And he’s so talented and he’s worked so hard for it."
In live settings, Sheeran’s uncanny charm brings whole arenas to silence, allowing him to perform his heartfelt acoustic songs without a backing band. Swift thinks that onstage persona could lend itself to the GRAMMY podium as well.
"I think he would have amazing acceptance speeches. We toured together all year and I watched him every single night. He was just such a show-stopper.”
Sheeran is prepping for the release of his highly-anticipated sophomore effort, due some time in 2014. He worked with the legendary Rick Rubin on the new music and says he hopes to release three albums over the next three years.
"It was so amazing to watch him work and to watch him put together his new record, which is going to be great," Swift says. "Whether or not he wins Best New Artist, I think people are going to be so blown away by what comes next from him."
Speaking of new albums, Swift herself is due to release a new studio full length next year, rumored for the fourth quarter of 2014. “I’m really loving collaboration right now,” she told Billboard in December. “I see it as a bit of an apprenticeship. I want to be around people who love writing songs and have done it for years.”
Swift has already hinted that Max Martin is among those collaborators.
In the meantime, Swift is set to perform at this year’s GRAMMYs and is nominated for four awards: Album of the Year and Best Country Album for “Red,” Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “Highway Don’t Care” (alongside Tim McGraw and Keith Urban), and Best Country Song for “Begin Again.”
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Taylor twittrar om ny artikel i Rolling Stone
Taylor Swift Leads Rebounding Concert BusinessWith Taylor Swiftleading the way, grossing more than $110 million for her North American tour, the concert business appears to have fully recovered from its summer struggles of three years ago. Overall ticket revenues have jumped from $1.7 billion in 2000 to $5.1 billion last year, according to Pollstar's newly released end-of-2013 data. The numbers are especially encouraging for fans, given average ticket prices went up just 1.1 percent, to $69.52. In part, prices were low because of tours like Swift, whose prices averaged $84.40, and second-place Bon Jovi, who grossed $107 million with $95 prices.Fortsätt läsa
ZAP2IT intervju
Taylor Swift received birthday gifts during the holiday season, but she also gave quite a hefty one.Nominated for four Grammys at the 56th annual awards -- which CBS televises Sunday, Jan. 26 -- the singing-songwriting superstar marked turning 24 last month by donating $100,000 to the Nashville Symphony.
The musicians had taken a 15-percent salary cut in their contract negotiation last summer, and Swift elected to do her part, which earned her DoSomething.org's title of most charitable celebrity of 2013."They're an incredible group of people," she tells Zap2It. "I played with them a couple of years ago, and I had no idea they had gotten so wiped out by the floods in Nashville. There was so much damage to their building, they had to cut back on costs. They would never ask me to give anything, and that's why I felt compelled to do so."Now with Grammy bids for the multiple-hit-yielding "Red" that include Album of the Year and Country Album -- both of which she won in 2010 (for "Fearless") -- Swift will take her current concert tour to Europe days after the award ceremony. She intends to give those fans the whole show, entailing some big shipping costs."I'm so excited for London and Berlin," she says, "and I'm really excited that we've taken the time to ship everything over. We'll have the full show, and that's why we've taken a break between going to Australia and going to London. I don't want anybody to get a stripped-down version of the show, just me standing on a stage."
Taylor bekräftad att uppträda på Grammy Awards
This year’s lineup of who’s performing at the Jan. 26 Grammy Awards has just been announced, and the show really promises to rock.
While nominees such as Taylor Swift, T.I., Macklemore and Lewis were certainly expected to perform, there will be the added benefits of Pink singing her popular duet (and song of the year nominee) “Just Give Me a Reason” with Nate Ruess from FUN.
Katy Perry will no doubt be Roaring onstage, and Robin Thicke will blur the lines alongside the ’70s and ’80s band Chicago, whose The Chicago Transit Authority album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame this year.
Perhaps the most exciting performance will be the inaugural Grammy appearance of New Zealander chanteuse Lorde, a nominee for four awards who’ll perform her hit “Royals.”
Taylor utsedd till årets "Tennessean"
Taylor Swift just turned 24.She came to Middle Tennessee from Pennsylvania at 14, and in the ensuing near-decade she has become an international superstar, and a wealthy young woman. Those are rare and laudable things, but they’ve been done before.Swift, though, is unprecedented. She came to popular attention with Top 10 country hit “Tim McGraw” when she was 16, becoming the first mid-teenage singer-songwriter to do so since Janis Ian hit the Top 20 with “Society’s Child” in 1967. And Swift has made the most graceful transition from teen stardom to adult music career since Brenda Lee, who recorded signature hit “I’m Sorry” at age 15 and maintained an impeccable image on her way to the country music and rock and roll halls of fame.Yet these are not the reasons that The Tennessean recognizes Swift as the 2013 Tennessean of the Year.Swift has become a worldwide ambassador for Tennessee’s capital city, an example to millions of young (and not-so-young) people of how to turn damaged feelings into healing creativity, and a financial booster to some of the city’s most important institutions. In October, the Taylor Swift Education Center opened at the greatly expanded Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, courtesy of Swift’s $4 million gift, the largest individual artist gift in the museum’s history.Fortsätt läsa
Billboard Magazine, ny intervju
Taylor Swift Collaborating Again for Fifth Album: 'I See It as an Apprenticeship'"Red" sparked Taylor Swift to reach out to prominent writers to expand her musical palette and she intends to keep making those calls for the follow-up."I'm really loving collaboration right now," Swift told Billboard during a quick stop in Los Angeles to support her song "Sweeter Than Fiction" from the film "One Chance." "I see it as a bit of an apprenticeship. I want to be around people who love writing songs and have done it for years. Every time I'm in a studio I'm learning, like how to build a drum track, and getting a new perspective on things. It's so thrilling to keep learning on your fifth album."As soon as (an album) comes out I'm figuring out what the next one will be. It's gotten to the point where each one is a reinvention, which is what I like best. I like it when it sounds new and people don't know where you're going to go next."Fortsätt läsa
Donerar 100,000 dollar till Nashville Symphony
Taylor Swift, who celebrates her 24th birthday today (Dec. 13), has made a $100,000 donation to the Nashville Symphony. The unexpected early Christmas gift surprised and delighted symphony representatives at a meeting facilitated by Dave Pomeroy, President of AFM Local 257, and attended by members of Swift’s organization.
“Taylor, who is a member of our local [community], is not only an amazing talent with fans all across the globe; she is also an incredibly generous artist who has never failed to demonstrate her devotion to not only her own band, but also to the greater Nashville community and our musicians. We applaud her fantastic contribution to Music City’s renowned orchestra. Thank you, Taylor, and ‘Happy Birthday’ too!” Pomeroy said.
#3 mest betalda kvinnor 2013
No. 3: Taylor Swift ($55 million): Swift was born in 1989, and she’s selling records like the industry hasn’t changed since: Her fourth studio album, Red, sold 1.2 million copies in its October 2012 debut. She parlayed that success into endorsement deals with Diet Coke, Sony and Covergirl, not to mention big bucks on the road.
Nominerad till en Golden Globe
Taylor är aktuell med den nya parfymen Incredible Things. Parfymen finns sedand den 1/12 -14 på Kicks. Ni kan även hitta de tidigare parfymerna Wonderstruck, Wonderstruck Enchanted och Taylor by Taylor Swift hos ett antal återförsäljare runt om i landet.
