Blog #2

Taylor Swift is an American Country-Pop star who has made a name for herself by becoming one of the most popular artists in the entire world. She was born in a small town In Pennsylvania on a Christmas tree farm.
  The music she has written and writes are about events that have actually happened to her, which makes the songs appeal to a variety of people and not just teenage girls like a lot of people say. Her experiences with boys ad different events that have happened in her life like one of her friends feeling like no one is there for them, she wrote a song called Tied Together with a smile. This is why her music appeals and she has some of the highest album sales in history for any genre or artist.
  Her album Red, which has been getting extreme record sales by selling 1.2 million copies in the first week that it was on sale. This was the fastest and most sales for her career and any for any artist in several decades. Also on iTunes there were close to half a million sold in the first ten minutes that the album was available for digital download. Many people say that only girls should listen to Taylor Swift, but some of her biggest fans can be young men, there are two songs called Taylor Swift by Tyler Dean, and Austin Kyle. The music appeals to anyone and everyone because regardless of gender there's a relation to the song. These songs have been released and became number one singles.
Her first album that was self titled had two number one hits, with "Our Song"and "Should've Said No" Then her second album sold over 500,000 copies in the first week. "You Belong With Me" and "Love Story became number on hits. These albums come from experience and things that happened in her life

  Taylor Swift left Sony Records, which is one of the largest record companies in the world, because she could not write her own music, and she joined Big Machine Records and is now their C.E.O. Her music appeals to a whole variety of people and many of her songs that are big hits get certified gold or higher,she seems to be transitioning into the pop genre of music. The roots of her musci will always be country and that is why she is the youngest artist to win entertainer of the year at the CMA awards. She has won over thirty awards for her music and will continue to because people can relate to the muscis she writes.
 http://www.npr.org/2012/11/05/164340690/taylor-swift-leaps-into-pop-with-red
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/31/red-album-sales_n_2048723.html