Taylor Swift Plans National Television Appearances to Launch New CD, Fearless, in Stores November 11th

Taylor Swift Plans National Television Appearances to Launch New CD, Fearless, in Stores November 11th

Swift Earns 4-Star Rave Review in Rolling Stone, Tops 90 Million MySpace Streams

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Taylor Swift's highly-anticipated sophomore album, Fearless, arrives in stores on November 11th, and Taylor will make several national television appearances to launch the album. She will perform live on Good Morning America on Monday, November 10th as part of their fall concert series, and that night will make her debut appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman. Good Morning America airs on ABC from 7:00 - 9:00 a.m. (all time zones), and Letterman airs on CBS at 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).

Additionally, on November 12th Taylor will perform on the 42nd Annual CMA Awards, which will be broadcast live on ABC from 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT). Taylor is nominated for CMA Female Vocalist of the Year. On November 7th at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT), CMT will premiere Crossroads: Def Leppard and Taylor Swift, a once-in-a-lifetime concert event pairing Taylor with her all-time favorite band. Later this year, Taylor will perform on the American Music Awards (ABC, Nov. 23rd), where she is nominated for Favorite Female Artist - Country, and on the GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live (CBS, Dec. 3rd).

Fearless is already making huge inroads at both radio and retail. Individual digital paid download sales are well over 1 million already, and expected to approach 1.5 million by street date. The album's lead single, "Love Story," is Top 5 at Country radio and a most-added track at Top 40.

Early press response to Fearless has been overwhelmingly positive. Just this week Rolling Stone awarded the disc 4 stars, praising Taylor as "a songwriting savant with an intuitive gift," and the LA Times wrote, "As a whole, Fearless represents a major advance in her confidence and acumen as a songwriter and evinces complete faith in her conversational vocal style, one that positions her as the celebrity teen that other girls would most like to hang out with and the one most boys would want to ask to the prom." Us Weekly lauded the album as "a stellar follow-up to her triple-platinum debut."

Also this week, Taylor reached a new online milestone, surpassing the 90 MILLION mark for music streams on MySpace, where she is consistently ranked Country's #1 artist. Taylor is now averaging over 10 million MySpace streams each month.

Last week Taylor appeared on the cover of Billboard, and she appears on the cover of Redbook's November issue.

To hear music from Taylor Swift, log on to: www.taylorswift.com or www.myspace.com/taylorswift.

For Fearless album art and downloadable photos of Taylor Swift, log on to www.bigmachinerecords.com and click the media tab.

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