Taylor fortsätter att toppa Billboards listor
Taylors nya singel Blank Space gjorde framsteg på Billboard Hot 100. Låten gick från 18:e plats till en 13:e plats.
Även 1989 fortsätter att slå rekord för Taylor. 1989 fortsatte att ha höga försäljningssiffror under sin andra vecka jämföt med Red och Speak Now, där försäljning sjönk för båda albumen med över 50 % under andra veckan. Så 1989 behöll försa platsen på Billboard 200 chart även denna veckan.
Vill du veta mer kan du läsa de båda artiklarna Taylor Swift Still No. 1 on Hot 100, Ariana Grande & The Weeknd Hit Top 10 och Taylor Swift's '1989' Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart.
Taylor pratar om att fylla 25
”I know that I don’t have the option of making music that sounds just like what I’ve done before,” Taylor Swift tells PopCrush, talking about what went through her head when making her new album, ’1989.’ “People will call me out on it. They’ll see right through it.”
“They’ll see that I was lazy,” she adds with a laugh. “So with this album I definitely changed things up and I think I changed them for the better.”
’1989′ is Taylor’s first “official” pop album (meaning, there’s not a single track here that was made with country radio in mind), but it’s not a total musical rebirth — just her next act as an artist. Her commitment to telling a story with her lyrics hasn’t changed.
During our conversation about ’1989,’ Taylor chats with us about developing as a songwriter and the tracks on the album that she’s most proud of (as well as Ed Sheeran and Lorde‘s favorite songs). Plus, just before celebrating her 25th birthday this December, she reflects on the past 10 years of her life — and why she wouldn’t want to fix any of the mistakes she’s made. Read the full interview below.
Who was the first person to listen to ’1989,’ and what was their reaction?
I think one of the first people that I played the entire album for was my friend Ella, who goes by Lorde. She’s one of my favorite people to kind of bounce ideas off of — she gives really good advice. And it’s interesting to see what her favorites are. Another person that’s heard the entire album is Ed Sheeran. Having friends where who I completely respect their musical opinion is really helpful because they all have their different favorites and stuff, and their different favorites definitely reflect them as musicians, for sure.
Ella’s favorite is a song called ‘Welcome to New York,’ and Ed’s favorite song is called ‘Bad Blood.”’
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Shake It Off är åter #1 på Billboard Hot 100
Plus, four more songs debut from her new No. 1 Billboard 200 album ‘1989,’ including ‘Blank Space,’ which enters atop Digital Songs.
Taylor Swift-mania extends to the Billboard Hot 100, where “Shake It Off” rebounds 2-1 for a third total week on top. The song debuted at No. 1 on Sept. 6 and led again in its second week before spending the next eight weeks at No. 2, until this week.“Shake,” released on Big Machine Records, dethrones the song that kept it at the runner-up slot in between its No. 1 ranks: Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass,” which dips to No. 2 after eight weeks at the summit.
With Swift already making headline news thanks to the debut of parent album 1989 atop the Billboard 200 with 1.287 million copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and with Wednesday the day that the sales/airplay/streaming-based Hot 100 is compiled, let’s take our weekly look at the numbers behind the top 10 and more.
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Första veckans försäljningssiffror för 1989
Billboard just announced the 1989 first week sales. The album debuted at number 1 and sold 1.287 million copies. Congratulations, Taylor!! You can read the full article below! It’s official: Taylor Swift’s 1989 debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the largest sales week for an album since 2002.
1989 sold 1.287 million copies in the week ending Nov. 2, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
1989 is Swift’s fifth studio album and was released Oct. 27 through Big Machine Records. It’s her fourth No. 1 album, following Red (in 2012), Speak Now (2010) and Fearless (2008).
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2015 People’s Choice Awards nomineringar
Favorite Female Artist
Beyoncé
Iggy Azalea
Katy Perry
Sia
Taylor Swift
Favorite Pop Artist
Beyoncé
Jennifer Lopez
Jessie J
Sia
Taylor Swift
Favorite Song
“All About That Bass” by Meghan Trainor
“Bang Bang” by Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj
“Maps” by Maroon 5
“Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift
“Stay with Me” by Sam Smith
HITS Daily Double intervju
Taylor intervjuades av HTS Daily Double. Hon pratade om hur det var att göra ett popalbum, hur det är att jobba med Max Martin och Imogen Heap, låtskrivning och mycket mer.
When Taylor Swift took to the Internet to tell the world 1989 was "her very first documented, official pop album," the tremors were mighty. The only true shock, though, was the multiple-Grammy winner’s willingness to eschew an extra layer of award nominations (via Country categories) in the name of musical honesty. But then, isn’t that Taylor Swift’s modus operandi? Her instincts once again appear to be spot-on, as the new album garners mega-sales by the standards of any era, as well as the most rhapsodic critical response of her career.
Working with executive producer Max Martin, Swift assembled a coterie of musical confidantes and began creating an album that actually refused to embrace any sub-genre, not just country. The New York Times’ Jon Caramanica wrote that, "by making pop with almost no contemporary references, Swift is aiming somewhere even higher, a mode of timelessness that few true pop stars even bother aspiring to."
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Taylor till AMA's
Los Angeles, CA (November 3, 2014) – dick clark productions and ABC announced today that 7-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift will take to the stage at the American Music Awards for the World Premiere performance of her new single “Blank Space”. She joins a star-studded lineup of previously announced must-see performers at the world’s biggest fan-voted award show including 5 Seconds of Summer, Iggy Azalea, Mary J. Blige, Charli XCX, Fergie, Lorde, One Direction, Sam Smith and the evening’s host, Pitbull. The 2014 American Music Awards will broadcast live from the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd (8:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) on ABC. Additional performers and presenters will be announced soon.
Billboard om Blank Space
Taylor Swift’s lead single from 1989, “Shake It Off,” is still going strong at No. 2 on the Hot 100 chart as the album heads toward a million-plus sales debut. Now that everyone has heard the full album, though, we can collectively speculate: what will the official follow-up single to “Shake It Off” be?On Thursday, Swift’s label Big Machine/Republic gave us the answer: “Blank Space” is the second single from 1989. The song will officially impact Top 40/mainstream, Top 40/rhythm and Hot AC radio on Nov. 10.
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1989 spås sälja 1 miljon album denna veckan
Industry sources now forecast the album to sell at least one million copies in its first week. That would make 1989 just the 19th album to sell a million in a single week since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991, and Swift the first act to earn three million-selling weeks.
Plus: 1989 will be the first album released in 2014 to sell a million copies. The new album is Swift's fifth studio effort, released through Big Machine Records on Oct. 27. Its sales forecast is for the tracking week ending Nov. 2. It could mark Swift's third million-selling debut in a row, following 2010's Speak Now (1.05 million) and 2012's Red (1.21 million).
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Taylor bekräftad uppträda på nyårsafton
Taylor Swift will be shakin' it up in New York City's Times Square on New Year's Eve.ABC announced Monday that Swift is the headliner for "New Year's Rockin' Eve," the annual countdown show hosted by Ryan Seacrest. The show plans some 38 musical performances over five and a half hours on the air. No other musical acts have been announced yet.Swift's hit "Shake It Off" is currently on the charts, and she'll be promoting her pop-oriented album "1989."It will be Seacrest's 10th year hosting the annual celebration that was originated by Dick Clark
Taylor utsedd till New York ambassadör
Intervju med Liz Rose
Liz Rose doesn't play an instrument. That hasn't stopped her from co-writing some of the biggest country songs of the 21st century, though, including nearly two dozen Taylor Swift tunes and a handful of hits for Little Big Town, Eli Young Band, Gary Allan, Tim McGraw and Bonnie Raitt, among others. She's won Grammys. She's topped the charts. Her songs — several of which were co-penned with "The Love Junkies," a songwriting trio comprised of Rose, Hillary Lindsey and Lori McKenna — have sold more than 20 million copies combined.
When you've got stats like that, who needs a guitar?
"I got into songwriting as a lyricist," she explains. "Some people have said to me, 'Don't learn an instrument. Never learn an instrument. You're only going to ruin your process.' And I think they're right, because I don't need it. I just need someone to start playing a beat or some chords, and the ideas immediately flow."
These days, while Taylor Swift turns to more pop-friendly collaborators like Max Martin for help on her crossover records, Rose remains as busy as ever. She contributed three songs to Little Big Town's Pain Killer and runs her own music publishing company from a cozy, two-story walk-up on Nashville's Music Row. That's where Rolling Stone Country caught up with the lauded hitmaker to get the stories behind her songs, from chart-toppers to personal favorites.
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Taylor pratar om "haters" med Billboard
Taylor Swift named her fifth album after her birth year, 1989, but 2014 is the year of her rebirth. After wooing the mainstream with four albums of her pop-flavored brand of country, Swift waves goodbye to Nashville with 1989, ditching guitars for new wave-y synths, courtesy of hitmakers including Max Martin, Shellback, Ryan Tedder and Fun's Jack Antonoff, who she met through his girlfriend and her "best friend" Lena Dunham.Källa
But the LP also marks a personal transition for the 24-year-old: She has a new cropped haircut, debuted a more sophisticated street style and, perhaps most symbolically, moved from Nashville to New York in March. In the past, Swift often seemed to use her music to call out a string of ex-boyfriends. Some already have pointed to One Direction's Harry Styles as the inspiration for new single "Out of the Woods." She is, however, currently single -- " in the past two years [boyfriends] have not been a priority," she says.
Swift's mature metamorphosis is going swimmingly so far: "Shake It Off" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the album is arguably the best of her career, and industry forecasters expect it to sell 800,000 to 900,000 first-week copies -- the best sales week for an album in 2014. As 1989 arrives Oct. 27 on Big Machine Records, Swift reveals the reasons behind her professional and personal transformations. "I've gone through so many phases and I've had to learn so much in front of the entire world," she says. "I feel much more equipped to deal with things now."
Intervju i USA Today
Officially pop, Taylor Swift embraces being unafraidNASHVILLE — Having balanced her career between the worlds of country and pop since 2006, Taylor Swift knew it was time to make some choices about her musical direction.
"I needed to pick a lane," says Swift, 24, who'll release 1989, her first full-fledged pop album, Monday. "If you chase two rabbits, at some point you end up losing them both. I wanted to pick one, and it was so easy to, because I was so naturally gravitating toward this '80s synth-pop-influenced sound."
With 2012's Red, she says, "you'd hear mandolin on one track, then a dubstep bass drop on the next song. You're kind of thinking, are these really on the same album?"
So for 1989, she stuck with Max Martin and Shellback, the production duo that worked on We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together and I Knew You Were Trouble, as well as her first producer, Nathan Chapman, who contributes one track. She also collaborated with OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder, Imogen Heap and fun.'s Jack Antonoff.
"Everything was about new territory, taking chances, being unafraid," says Antonoff, who worked with Swift on a pair of tracks, Out of the Woods and I Wish You Would. "She is relentlessly pushing herself to be unafraid of taking chances."
Mer info om Taylors schema nästa vecka
Taylor Swift and Diet Coke are teaming up for unprecedented programming events with iHeartMedia to celebrate the release of Swift’s highly anticipated, fifth studio album, 1989, on October 27. Together, Swift and Diet Coke will take over every Premiere Networks-syndicated CHR (Contemporary Hit Radio) show and its digital platforms during the week of Taylor’s album launch.
Swift will kick off the week by guest-hosting American Top 40 on October 25 and 26 and being featured on Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest on October 27. She will also appear as a special guest during On with Mario Lopez on October 29.
On October 30, Diet Coke will present Swift co-hosting On Air with Ryan Seacrest for the show’s entire four-hour broadcast live from New York City, sharing exclusive details about 1989. This will be the first time an artist co-hosts the entire radio program, as well as the first time the full show is presented by a single brand. To bring fans closer to the experience, Diet Coke is hosting the Ultimate 1989 Fan Party LIVE from iHeartRadio’s NYC studios during the broadcast.
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Out Of The Woods får 4 fyrar
KällaTaylor Swift ligger verkligen i vinnarhållet på höstens musikrace. I alla fall ur ett amerikanskt perspektiv. Hon har krattat ordentligt i media inför släppet av den här, den andra låten, från kommande albumet 1989. Låten gick omedelbart upp i topp på I-tunes listan vilket ivrigt twitter-applåderades av Lena Dunham, kvinnan bakom tv-succén Girls.
Om man tycker att den svenska nöjesbranschen är liten kan det vara kul att veta att Lena Dunhams pojkvän heter Jack Antonoff. Till vardags spelar han i banden Bleachers och Fun, men han har dessutom skrivit Taylor Swifts nya låt Out of the woods.
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Intervju med Access Hollywood
KällaIt didn't take long for Taylor Swift's "Out of the Woods" to reach the top of the charts.
After being released at midnight on Monday, the song – the second track released on iTunes off of her upcoming "1989" album – quickly ascended to the peak of the iTunes charts.
But whereas the album's first single, "Shake It Off," was Taylor taking aim at her critics, "Out of Woods" returns to a more Taylor-esque musical theme – a tale of love gone wrong.
"I wrote that about a time in my life where I was in a relationship and it just kind of, I was always wondering, 'Where do we stand? What are we?'" Taylor explained in a new interview with Access Hollywood's Liz Hernandez. "It's the anxiety… that frantic anxiety of wondering if you're on solid ground yet."
While Taylor has remained mum on who exactly the song is about – as is the case for most of her lovelorn numbers – there are some hints in the lyrics that the song is about One Direction's Harry Styles.
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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.
