Fearless (Taylor Swift album)

Fearless
Fearless
	Standard North American cover
Studio album by Taylor Swift
Released	November 11, 2008
Recorded	2007–2008
Studio	Blackbird; Fool on the Hill; Quad; Sound Cottage; Sound Emporium; Starstruck (Nashville); Sound Kitchen (Franklin);
Genre	Country pop
Length	53:26
Label	Big Machine;
Producer	Nathan Chapman; Taylor Swift;
Taylor Swift chronology
International edition cover
Singles from Fearless
	"Love Story"; Released: September 15, 2008; "White Horse"; Released: December 8, 2008; "You Belong with Me"; Released: April 20, 2009; "Fifteen"; Released: August 31, 2009; "Fearless"; Released: January 4, 2010;

Fearless is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Under Big Machine Records imprint, it was released in the United States and Canada on November 11, 2008, and elsewhere on March 9, 2009.

Swift wrote the majority of Fearless while touring in 2007–2008 and produced the album with Nathan Chapman. It featured co-writing credits from Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Colbie Caillat, and John Rich. Fearless is a country pop album incorporating country instruments such as banjos, fiddles, mandolins, and acoustic guitars, that intertwine with dynamic electric guitars and strings. Music critics found the album to have a crossover appeal brought by influences of pop, folk, and rock. Inspired by Swift's teenage feelings, the lyrics mostly explore love and heartbreak using fairy tale-inspired imagery.

To promote the album, Swift embarked on the Fearless Tour, which ran from April 2009 to July 2010. Five songs were released as singles—two of them, "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", were commercially successful and set records on both country and pop radio. In the United States, Fearless spent 11 weeks atop the Billboard 200 and was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album received multi-platinum certifications in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, and it has sold 12 million copies worldwide.

Music critics lauded the album's radio-friendly tunes and emotional engagement that appealed to not only teenagers but also a broad audience, although some deemed the production formulaic. The most-awarded country album of all time, Fearless won Album of the Year at both the Country Music Association Awards and the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2009, and it won Album of the Year and Best Country Album at the Grammy Awards in 2010. The album featured on Rolling Stone's 2022 list of the 100 Greatest Country Albums of All Time. Following the 2019 dispute regarding the ownership of Swift's back catalog, she released a re-recording, Fearless (Taylor's Version), on April 9, 2021.