Music is supposed to soothe the savage beast, but it can also get some people riled up. Especially, when it comes to copyright cases. Throughout the history of the music industry, there have been incidents of artists accused of ripping off the works of others. Taylor Swift had been embroiled in such a case since 2017, when songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler sued her over her massive single, “Shake […]
Taylor Swift is hard at work this year. The singer-songwriter, who will turn 31 on Sunday, has debuted her surprise album "Evermore," a "sister record" to her "Folklore," which arrived in July. Along with the album release, the star dropped a music video for the song "Willow," which she directed herself. The video opens on Swift, seated in a cozy cottage before following a golden string into the back of her piano, which […]
Taylor Swift made her a triumphant return to the stage — for the first time in seven years — at the Academy of Country Music Awards 2020. The superstar singer sang “Betty,” from her “Folklore” album, and of course the song is packed full of lots of hidden meanings. On Taylor’s 2020 album “Folklore,” there are a collection of three songs that refer to a teenage love triangle. These three love songs explore the […]
Taylor Swift's 1989 joins an elite club, as the album racks up a 300th week on the Billboard 200 chart. In turn, it becomes the fourth album by a woman to spend at least 300 weeks on the tally. 1989 debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated Nov. 15, 2014, and has rarely been absent from the list since its arrival: It's been on the chart for 300 of the 307 weeks since it bowed. On […]
This feat is getting harder to accomplish, as more albums have just a single week on top. As previously reported, Taylor Swift's Folklore tops the Billboard 200 for the second week. It's Swift's sixth album to log two or more weeks on top of Billboard's flagship album chart, which puts her in very exclusive company. Since the Billboard 200 was introduced in March 1956, just 11 artists have released six or more albums that […]
It may be the last day of Pride Month, but Kelly Clarkson is ending it with a bang. The singer shared her latest "Kellyoke" segment of her daytime talk show on Tuesday (June 30), in which she nails a cover of Taylor Swift's "You Need to Calm Down." "*screams in gay*," she wrote alongside the clip, which features photos and videos from various Pride parades and festivities. https://twitter.com/KellyClarksonTV/status/1277587622362259457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1277587622362259457%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Farticles%2Fcolumns%2Fpop%2F9412220%2Fkelly-clarkson-you-need-to-calm-down-taylor-swift-cover At the first virtual Daytime […]
When you're in the ballroom at the Golden Globe Awards, you're not subjected to commercial breaks, you don't hear the censor's bleeps and you aren't beholden to a cameraperson. Instead, you're able to roam about the Beverly Hilton ballroom as you wish; stop by the bathroom, smoking deck and open bar as often as you'd like; and rub elbows with celebrities who you're so used to watching on a big screen that even […]
In the 2010s, she went from country superstar to pop titan and broke records with chart-topping albums and blockbuster tours. Now Swift is using her industry clout to fight for artists’ rights and foster the musical community she wished she had coming up. One evening in late-October, before she performed at a benefit concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Taylor Swift’s dressing room became -- as it often does -- an […]
Taylor Swift not only opened the American Music Awards with a fiery performance of I Did Something Bad, but she went on to dominate the show. The star won four trophies, including artist of the year, making her the ceremony's most-decorated female ever. She now holds 23 AMAs, beating a record previously held by Whitney Houston. Swift, who recently broke years of political silence to declare support for two Democrats, […]
