Taylor Swift (album)

Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
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Studio album by Taylor Swift
Released	October 24, 2006
Recorded	2005–2006
Studio	Castles; Quad; Sound Cottage; Sound Emporium (Nashville, Tennessee);
Genre	Country
Length	40:28
Label	Big Machine
Producer	Nathan Chapman; Robert Ellis Orrall;
Taylor Swift chronology
Singles from Taylor Swift
	"Tim McGraw"; Released: June 19, 2006; "Teardrops on My Guitar"; Released: February 20, 2007; "Our Song"; Released: September 4, 2007; "Picture to Burn"; Released: February 3, 2008; "Should've Said No"; Released: May 19, 2008;

Taylor Swift is the debut studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Under the Big Machine Records imprint, it was released in the United States and Canada on October 24, 2006, and in other markets on March 18, 2008.

Swift relocated from Pennsylvania to Nashville, Tennessee at 14 to sign a songwriting contract with Sony/ATV Tree Music Publishing. Her recording contract with Big Machine in 2005 enabled her to work on the album with the producer Nathan Chapman during her freshman year of high school. She wrote or co-wrote all tracks of Taylor Swift; co-writers include Robert Ellis Orrall, Brian Maher, Angelo Petraglia, and Liz Rose. Inspired by her teenage outlook on life, the lyrics address love, friendships, and insecurity. Musically, Taylor Swift is a country album with pop and pop rock elements, and its acoustic arrangements are instrumented with guitars, banjos, and fiddles.

Five songs were released as singles; "Our Song" and "Should've Said No" peaked atop the Hot Country Songs chart, and "Teardrops on My Guitar" charted in the top 10 on the Pop Songs chart. Swift embarked on a six-month radio tour in 2006 and opened tours for other country artists throughout 2006–2007. By promoting Taylor Swift via the social networking site Myspace, she reached a teenage audience that had been excluded as a target demographic for country music. Initial reviews praised the accessible production with crossover appeal and Swift's earnest depictions of adolescent feelings. Taylor Swift was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2008 Academy of Country Music Awards.

In the United States, Taylor Swift spent 24 weeks at number one on the Top Country Albums chart, became the longest-charting album of the 2000s decade on the Billboard 200, and made Swift the first female country artist to write or co-write every song on a platinum-certified debut album. It also charted and received certifications in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Taylor Swift's pop-oriented country sound and autobiographical songwriting set a blueprint for Swift's next albums and became an inspiration for other confessional singer-songwriters. Rolling Stone featured it in their 2022 list "100 Best Debut Albums of All Time".
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