Big Machine recording artist Taylor Swift has once again entered the history books, this time as the first artist ever to score two #1 records at Top 40 radio with a country crossover recording. This week the unstoppable country/pop superstar locked down the #1 spot at the Top 40 Radio format for a record-breaking second time this year, this time for her single “You Belong With Me” (source: Mediabase). It’s the same song for which Swift received a Moonman at last week’s MTV VMA Awards for Best Female Video, making her the first country artist ever to win a Video Music Award in the history of the annual event. “You Belong With Me”, which reached a radio audience of 112 million listeners last week alone, is Swift’s second consecutive #1 at Top 40, and her 4th consecutive #1 Country single...

The biggest selling artist of 2008 of any genre, Taylor Swift was the first artist in the history of SoundScan to have two different albums in the Top Ten of the Year-end album chart (her 2006 debut Taylor Swift and 2008’s Fearless). Fearless spent more time at #1 than any other album since 2000. “Love Story” has become the most downloaded song in country music history, with Fearless opening in November 2008 in the #1 position atop both the country and all-genre sales charts. Taylor’s total digital download tally stands at 20 million worldwide, with “Love Story” soaring past the one million mark and both “Teardrops On My Guitar” and “Our Song” surpassing 500,000 in sales, making her one of the most successful digital artists of all time. Her MySpace site now totals more than 250 million music streams, one of the Top Ten most visited MySpace sites in online history. She is continually the most searched music artist on MySpace and in the digital realm. Taylor has sold over 10 million albums worldwide.

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