Taylor Swift Archives

America’s Bestselling Album Artist of 2008 Taylor Swift will be this week’s musical guest on Saturday Night Live.

“I just found out that I get to play on SNL!!” the 19-year-old country crooner just confirmed. “January 10th! It’s my mom’s birthday, and I don’t think either of us would’ve believed you if you would’ve told us a few years ago that we’d get to spend her birthday in New York City — at Saturday Night Live! Wow. It’s pretty unreal.”

Later this week, Taylor is also expected to shoot he music video to her upcoming single, “White Horse”.

SNL airs Saturday @ 11:30PM ET/PT on NBC.

Taylor Swift appeared and performed on Friday’s episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The almost-19-year-old country superstar sang her hit song “White Horse” and told a great story about being raised on a Christmas Tree farm.

She shared, “Yes! I did [grow up on a Christmas Tree farm], so this is a good season for me. I was too young to help with the hauling of the trees up the hills and putting them onto cars. So, it was my job to pull off the preying mantis pods off of the Christmas trees. The problem with that is if you leave them on there, people bring them into their house. I forgot to check one time and they hatched all over these people’s house. And there were hundreds of thousands of them. And they had little kids, and they couldn’t kill of them because that’d be a bad Christmas.”

More quotes from the interview at JJJ.

Last month, it was announced that CosmoGirl was folding. And what better way to close out its ending December/January double issue than with Taylor Swift as its cover girl!

The 18-year-old country cutie, who picked up Favorite Female Country Artist at the AMAs last night, is featured on the cover and in an accompanying five-page spread, where she is lauded with the lead position in the magazine’s annual Born To Lead honors section. Taylor was photographed for the feature in New York’s Central Park.

Check out the full photo spread at JJJ.

Taylor Swift: Insider Special Edition, a special episode of CMT Insider, premieres this Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, at 10AM ET. She will join Jay Leno on The Tonight Show on December 5th for a performance and interview.

Country singer hottie Taylor Swift (in Collette Dinnigan, shoes by Christian Louboutin and jewelry by Neil Lane) arrives for the 2008 American Music Awards at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Jimmy Kimmel returns for the fifth time as host for the two-hour show. Expected performances include: Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, Kanye West, the Jonas Brothers, Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, New Kids on the Block, Coldplay, Leona Lewis, Alicia Keys, Sarah McLachlan, Taylor Swift, Pink, Ne-Yo and Annie Lennox.

20+ pictures inside of Taylor Swift at the 2008 American Music Awards… More Here! »

Taylor Swift runs through her secret performance onstage during the 2008 American Music Awards rehearsals held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Friday in Los Angeles.

The 18-year-old country cutie recently told CMT that she reads JustJared.com to “see what’s going on with celebrities. I like to have things to talk about. It’s not like you can just make movies and sing songs and people aren’t going to want to know who you’re dating and where you’re eating. I’m curious about that too. I’ll admit that.”

She also mentions that she doesn’t pay attention to the haters: “I just try to ignore the ‘I hate her, she’s ugly’ ones. When people can be anonymous, they’re vicious and it’s like sixth grade stuff like on crack. It’s terrible.”

Below is a video Taylor just made, showing some of the highlights from the release week of her #1 album in the country, Fearless. Celebrities that hold up the #1 sign in support of Taylor: Kid Rock, Kellie Pickler, Miley Cyrus, Hilary Duff, Snoop Doff, Nelly, Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy, Ludacris, Diddy, Kenny Chesney, Vanessa Minnillo and Reba McEntire.

15+ pictures inside of Taylor Swift practicing for the AMAs… More Here! »

Taylor Swift just broke a new record with “White Horse,” a track from her new album Fearless that was featured on the season premiere of Grey’s Anatomy.

The soulful song will debut at #13 on Billboard’s all-genre Hot 100 singles chart this week, giving the 18-year-old country cutie her 6th Top 20 debut of 2008. This breaks the all-time Billlboard record for the number of Top 20 debuts in a calendar year by any artist.

The previous record with five Top 20 Debuts this year was held by her ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas’s pop-rock group, The Jonas Brothers.

Taylor’s other five songs that made the Top 20 include “Change”, “Fearless”, “You’re Not Sorry”, “You Belong With Me” and “Love Story”.

Fearless also sold 592,304 units in its first week of sales (her last album sold 3.5 million). Comparatively, the JoBros sold over 525,000 units of their latest album, A Little Bit Longer (their last album sold 1.5 million).

Country superstar Taylor Swift has the #1 album in America, ya’ll!!!

The 18-year-old singer/songwriter’s sophomore effort, Fearless, sold 592,000 copies in the last week, the largest opening U.S. sales week in 2008 by a female artist and the fourth biggest overall, behind Lil Wayne, AC/DC and Coldplay.

Universal Music Group, the world’s biggest music company, also just has signed an international marketing and distribution deal with Taylor’s label Big Machine Records.

“She is by some distance the biggest breakthrough for an American artist in America over the last year,” executive vice president of Universal Music Group International Max Hole tells Reuters. “I don’t really see her as a country artist. If you listen to the records and see her play live, she has much more in common with acts like Avril Lavigne and Miley Cyrus.”

Congrats, Taylor!!! You’re #1!!!

Joe Jonas isn’t going to take this lying down!

The 19-year-old middle Jonas brother is speaking out against ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift’s accusations of him being a cheater and his 27-second break-up call. Here’s what he posted on his latest MySpace post:

“This blog is not an attack of anyone. Anytime you are in a relationship for any length of time there are going to be issues. Sometimes they resolve. Other times they lead to a change of heart. This was the case recently.

Several things I will state with all my heart… I never cheated on a girlfriend. It might make someone feel better to assume or imply I have been unfaithful but it is simply not true. Maybe there were reasons for a breakup. Maybe the heart moved on. Perhaps feelings changed. I am truly saddened that anything would potentially cause you to think less of me.

For those who have expressed concern over the “27 second” phone call. I called to discuss feelings with the other person. Those feelings were obviously not well received. I did not end the conversation. Someone else did. Phone calls can only last as long as the person on the other end of the line is willing to talk. A phone call can be pretty short when someone else ends the call. The only difference in this conversation was that I shared something the other person did not want to hear.

There were later attempts at communication that had no response. I wish the best for the other person but could not sit back any longer and leave our fans with a wrong impression of the truth. Hope this helps enlighten a little.”

UPDATE: Curiously enough, Taylor’s original quote to OK! was “[Joe and actress Camilla Belle] have been together for months. That’s why we broke up.”

OK! has since REWRITTEN Taylor’s quote to say: “They’ve been together since we broke up. That’s why we broke up - because he met her.” Something’s fishy!!!!!!!!!