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Fearless (Taylor Swift album)

Fearless (Taylor Swift album)
Album information
NameFearless
TypeStudio
ArtistTaylor Swift
ReleasedNovember 11, 2008
Recorded2007 � 2008; Nashville TN, Blackbird Studios, Starstruck Studios, The Sound Cottage, The Sound Eporium, Quad Studios, Love Shack Studios, Fool On The Hill Studios, Franklin TN, The Sound Kitchen
GenreCountry pop
Length53:33
LabelBig Machine
ProducerScott Borchetta (exec.), Nathan Chapman, Taylor Swift
Previous albumTaylor Swift
(2006)
Next albumSpeak Now
(2010)

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'Fearless' is the second studio album by American country pop singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Produced by Nathan Chapman and Swift and released on November 11, 2008 by Big Machine Records, the album debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and the Top Country Albums charts. The release sold 592,000 copies in the United States in its first week—the largest sum for a country album since Eagles' Long Road Out of Eden in November 2007. Fearless later became the first album to sell one million copies in 2009, and earned the title of top-selling album of 2009. As of September 2010, the album has been certified six-times platinum by the RIAA, and it sold 8,681,753 worldwide as of March 2011. On May 23, 2011, Billboard announced that Fearless was the biggest-selling album of the last five years in the US.

The album's lead single, "Love Story", was Swift's first song to achieve commercial success outside of the United States. It reached number one in Australia, number three in New Zealand, and number two in the United Kingdom and become one of the best-selling singles in the United States The album's third single, "You Belong with Me", became her biggest domestic hit, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. The album itself topped the Billboard 200 for 11 non-consecutive weeks and topped the Billboard Top Country Albums for 35 non-consecutive weeks. A karaoke version of the album was released on March 31, 2009 featuring the album as a CD+G and a DVD. The album was later re-released on October 26, 2009, as Fearless: Platinum Edition with six additional new songs, photos from the Fearless Tour and a bonus DVD featuring behind the scenes of some of her previous music videos.

At the 52nd Grammy Awards, Fearless won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and Best Country Album. Her Album of the Year win made her the youngest person ever at the age of 20 to receive that award, thereby surpassingAlanis Morissette's win for Jagged Little Pill at the age of 21. Fearless was also the first album in history to win the American Music Award (AMA), Academy of Country Music Award (ACM), Country Music Association Award (CMA), and Grammy Award for Album of The Year in the same year making it the most awarded album in the history of country music.


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