TAYLOR SWIFT made her film acting debut in "Valentine's Day." The top-selling digital artist in music history, she has had singles top both the Country and Pop charts. She released her eponymous debut album in 2006, after signing a publishing deal with Sony/ATV Music at age 14. Her quintuple-platinum sophomore release, Fearless, was the best-selling album in any music genre in both 2008 and 2009. With sales topping 13 million, Swift holds the Billboard all-genre records for the longest charting album of this century and for the most Top 20 debuts in a calendar year, as well as for the largest overall airplay audience for a country-based act. A Grammy Award nominee for Best New Artist in 2008, she was nominated for eight 2010 Grammy Awards.
In 2009, Swift became the youngest artist and only the seventh female act in the 43-year history of the Country Music Association (CMA) to be awarded the CMA Award for Entertainer of the Year. She also won 2009 CMA Awards for Album of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, Video of the Year and International Artist Achievement. In 2007, she won the prestigious CMA Horizon Award.
In 2009, Swift won American Music Awards (AMA) for Artist of the Year, Favorite Country Album, Favorite Female Country Artist, Favorite Female Pop/Rock Artist and Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist. She had previously won the 2008 AMA for Favorite Female Country Artist.
Fearless was voted 2009 Album of the Year by the Academy of Country Music (ACM), which also awarded Swift the ACM Crystal Milestone Award for Outstanding Achievement in Country Music. She was named Top New Female Vocalist by the ACM in 2008.
In addition, Swift won a 2009 MTV Video Music Award, becoming the first Country artist to win the award for Best Female Video. Swift was honored with 2009 CMT Music Awards for Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year, awards she had also won in 2008. She was named 2008 Superstar of Tomorrow at the 10th Annual Young Hollywood Awards, making her the first musician to ever receive the prestigious honor. The Nashville Songwriters Association International named Swift Songwriter/Artist of the Year in both 2007 and 2009.
Swift headlined her first arena tour in 2009, the "Taylor Swift Fearless 2009 Tour," which sold out every venue it played within minutes and has returned in 2010 for 42 additional dates. NBC dedicated an entire hour to the tour with its 2009 primetime special "Dateline: On Tour with Taylor Swift."
Swift's additional television appearances include a guest-starring role on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," and, in 2009, she became only the twelfth person in 35 years to serve as both host and musical guest for "Saturday Night Live." She has performed on virtually every morning, daytime and late night talk show, and was also named one of People's 100 Most Beautiful People of 2008 and 2009.
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