Taylor Swift's Sophomore CD, Fearless, to Arrive in Stores on November 11th

Taylor Swift's Sophomore CD, Fearless, to Arrive in Stores on November 11th

Pre-Sale Launches August 22nd, Fans Get a Chance to Have Their Own Photo Included in Album Artwork

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Taylor Swift's highly-anticipated sophomore CD will arrive in stores on November 11th, 2008, just over a month before her 19th birthday. Entitled FEARLESS, the album will be released by Big Machine Records and contains 13 tracks, all written or co-written by Taylor. Taylor co-produced the project with Nathan Chapman, and a first single from the new record will arrive at radio in early September.

In addition to the title track, the disc includes "Change" one of a few songs used as the soundtrack for daily video highlights shown during this summer's Olympic broadcast. The song was selected by Team USA and NBC for its lyrical content about overcoming challenges and achieving victory, and is available on iTunes starting today, with all proceeds benefiting Team USA. Also on the CD is "Breathe," a collaboration with Colbie Caillat, and "Fifteen" a poignant, coming-of-age ballad that Taylor premiered last fall at the Country Music Hall of Fame's All For The Hall event in New York City.

Starting on August 22nd, FEARLESS will be available for special pre-sale on the soon-to-be-launched site www.TheTaylorNation.com, and a very unique opportunity will exist for Taylor's biggest fans to have their own picture included in the album artwork and on the package's CD ROM. There will be a special deluxe box set edition of FEARLESS available that includes the CD, a FEARLESS leather bracelet, a FEARLESS t-shirt, a FEARLESS picture book and a The Taylor Nation decal -- all packaged in a special carrying case. The first 10,000 fans who purchase the limited box set and upload their photos will have their pictures included in a mosaic image in the album artwork and on the CD.

Taylor's self-titled debut CD was released in October of 2006, and has since been RIAA certified Triple Platinum (more than 3 million sold), and spent 24 weeks at #1 on Billboard's Country CD Sales Chart. Earlier this summer, Taylor became the only female solo artist in the 44-year history of the Billboard Country Chart to score five Top 10 singles from a debut album. Taylor first secured her place in the country music history books when at the age of 17, she became the youngest person ever to single-handedly write and sing a number-one country single entirely on her own ("Our Song" spent 6 consecutive weeks at #1 atop Billboard's Country Singles Chart), and she is also the first female solo artist in country music history to write or co- write every song on a platinum-selling debut CD.

Since the release of her debut CD, Taylor has:

-- Surpassed the 54 MILLION mark for music streams on MySpace, where she is consistently ranked Country's #1 artist.

-- Won the CMA's 2007 Horizon Award, the 2008 ACM Award for Top New Female Vocalist, and was named the Nashville Songwriters Association International's Songwriter / Artist of the Year in 2007.

-- Won 2008 CMT Music Awards for Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year, and won the 2007 CMT Music Award for Breakthrough Video of the Year.

-- Won the 2008 Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakthrough Artist.

-- Won the 2008 Young Hollywood Award for Superstar of Tomorrow, making her the first musician to ever receive this prestigious award.

-- Scored a 2008 GRAMMY nomination in the all-genre Best New Artist category.

-- Been awarded two RIAA Digital Platinum certifications (1 million downloads), two Digital Gold certifications (500,000 downloads), and Gold Mastertone certification for more than 500,000 ringtones.

-- Been named Country Music's Hottest Female Artist of 2007 by AOL Music and Best New Artist of 2007 by the editors of iTunes.

-- Appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone, Billboard, Seventeen, Blender, USA Weekend, Southwest Airlines' Spirit, and Justine magazines. Taylor was named one of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People of 2008, and was featured on Maxim's 2008 Hot 100 list.

-- Appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, MTV's Total Request Live, New Year's Rockin' Eve, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Live with Regis & Kelly, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Early Show, Dance War, America's Got Talent, the Academy of Country Music Awards, the CMA Awards, Christmas at Rockefeller Center, Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, Extra, CNN, E!, Fox & Friends, CMT Music Awards, Grand Ole Opry Live and the ground-breaking series GAC Short Cuts.

For more information, please contact:

Natalie Kilgore Paula Erickson
Big Machine Records Erickson Public Relations
615.324.7769 615.665.5950
Natalie.kilgore@bigmachinemail.compaula@ericksonpr.com

Source: Big Machine Records

CONTACT: Natalie Kilgore of Big Machine Records, +1-615-324-7769, or
Natalie.kilgore@bigmachinemail.com, or Paula Erickson of Erickson Public
Relations, +1-615-665-5950, or paula@ericksonpr.com

Web site: http://www.thetaylornation.com/
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