Taylor Swift Lets Her Lyrics Do the Talking

Taylor Swift knows that with super stardom comes tabloids and paparazzi documenting vacations, shopping trips and of course, her love life. She insists that if fans really want to know what’s going on with her, they should listen to her music. Her latest album, Red, chronicles her last couple of years. “I think that this [...] Read More

Billboard’s Top 50 Country Albums of 2012

Billboard.com has released their Top Country Albums of 2012. Taylor Swift’s Red tops the chart with albums from Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie, Lady Antebellum and Carrie Underwood rounding out the Top 5. Taylor also has two more albums appearing in the Top 50. Billboard Charts are calculated using custom formulas collecting sales, streaming and radio [...] Read More

2012 Rewind: No. 1 – Taylor Swift Shatters Sales Records

When Taylor Swift announced the release date of her Red album and debuted the project’s lead single, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” during a live chat in August, there was no doubt that the album would be a big seller. The single itself shattered sales records, topping iTunes charts in under an hour [...] Read More

GAC’s Top 10 Country Albums of 2012

Every year, music reviewers pull from the year’s releases to create Top 10 lists. 2012 was a fantastic year for country music, offering album after album of quality titles to choose from while overall sales for the genre rose 3.2% compared to this point last year. By the very nature of a ‘Top 10′ list, [...] Read More

Taylor Swift Closes In on Three Million Copies of Red Sold Worldwide

In less than a month, Taylor Swift’s Red album is nearing 2.8 million units sold worldwide. After debuting with music’s highest first-week album sales in over a decade, the album is in its third straight week in the No. 1 position on Billboard’s 200 top albums chart. Red has topped the sales charts in 42 [...] Read More