Taylor Swift's seventh studio album Lover is not only the top-selling album of 2019; it is the highest selling album since reputation was released back in 2017 and broke the record for most simultaneous entries by a female artist in Billboard's Hot 100 history with all 18 tracks from Lover charting! This is a testament not only to her devoted fans but also to her songwriting prowess. As USA Today said, "Critics are falling in love with Taylor Swift's latest album Lover." Rolling Stone hailed, "Lover is a career-topping masterpiece" and "the superstar's writing is better than it's ever been" while A.V. Club called Lover, "one of her strongest, most relatable albums to date" and Vulture said, "The old Taylor is back on Lover and the best she's been in years."
Swift recently released the title track, "Lover," with critics raving, "Both aching and achingly pretty, "Lover" effectively transmits its romantic signals by putting the songwriting of Swift -- a masterful writer who gets the solo credit here -- front and center" (Billboard Magazine) while People Magazine said "Lover" "Might be her most romantic song yet." Taylor's socially conscious 2nd single, "You Need To Calm Down," follows the debut single "ME!," which broke multiple records to date. With 65.2 million views in 24 hours, Swift now holds YouTube's most viewed video by any female and solo artist. "ME!" is also the fastest music video to reach 100M views on Vevo (in only 79 hours) and broke the record for the most views in a single day by any artist. In addition to "ME!" and "You Need To Calm Down,"
Swift is a ten-time Grammy winner, a singer, songwriter, musician and producer. She is the youngest person in history to win the music industry's highest honor, the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and is the first female solo artist to win this prestigious award twice. Rolling Stone listed Swift as one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Time magazine featured her on their prestigious 2017 Person of the Year cover, has named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world and included her three times at TIME 100. A Brit and Emmy award winner, Swift is Billboard's youngest-ever Woman of the Year and the only artist to have been awarded this honor twice. She is the only artist in history to have four consecutive albums sell over one million copies in their week of release (Speak Now, RED, 1989 and reputation) and the only female artist to have six albums each sell at least 500,000 copies in a single week (Fearless, Speak Now, RED, 1989, reputation and Lover). For more information on Taylor Swift and her new album Lover visit TaylorSwift.com.
