Taylor Swift | Speak Now | 10.25.10 (1M Debut!)

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UMG is expected to ship 1.8 million units of "Speak Now" and is projecting first-week sales of 750,000 units, sources say.
- Billboard

www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100#/features/will-kanye-susan-boyle-or-taylor-swift-rule-1004116801.story

[Joe1240]

Rachel Bilson & Taylor Swift: Roberto Cavalli Front Row!

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Rachel Bilson keeps it cute and fresh at the Roberto Cavalli Spring/Summer 2011 fashion show during Italy’s Milan Fashion Week on Monday (September 27).

The 29-year-old actress sat front row next to country singing sensation Taylor Swift, British singer Leona Lewis, model/producer Heidi Klum, and Elisabetta Canalis (George Clooney’s girlfriend).

FYI: Taylor is rumored to replaced troubled actress Lindsay Lohan in the romantic comedy One Night with You.



Read more: justjared.buzznet.com/2010/09/27/rachel-bilson-taylor-swift-roberto-cavalli-front-row/#more-582976#ixzz10knRXIyG

Yep! Taylor looking real stunning at this fashion show! :)

[👑 Eloquent ™]

SO happy about the songs being released digitally leading up to the album's release. However, I think they're overshooting projections a bit.

[livelikedying111]

It's hard for me to believe those numbers are possible given Mine's chart performance. I mean she is big, but I think it's a letdown so only time will tell... it only gets to show you no matter how high profile of an artist you are - quailty is a must.

[Gravity.]

I'm stoked that Back to December and Speak Now are pre-release tracks. I just can't make up my mind if I want to listen to them when the preview/debut or if I want to wait till 10/25 (like I did with Fearless). Hmm...

[Feelin'.$$$hady]

750k sounds REALLY optimistic. I would say 450-550k. Anything above is pleasant surprise.

[tsr]

I think 750k sounds about right. Even if Taylor's radio success has died down a bit, she's still a pretty consistent album seller. "Mine" may not be doing great, but it's top 10 on country (and will hopefully keep going), about to be top 10 on pop (hopefully) and who knows what it could be doing by the album release. I can see where people would think that she won't have huge opening numbers, but honestly, I don't see them being lower than the opening numbers for Fearless.

[out of reach]

Sept 27, 2010 18:08:32 GMT -5 Feelin'.$$$hady said:

750k sounds REALLY optimistic. I would say 450-550k. Anything above is pleasant surprise.

I agree, all album sales have been down. Lots of people don't have money and would rather cherry pick singles. Is she recession proof? I guess we will find out.

[Cody Wants Out...]

750K sounds overly optimistic for the first-week by itself. I'll drop my jaw to the ground if it's over 500k, though.

[justlurkingaround]

I would have said she'd ship 750K easily had Mine been a bigger hit on radio. I'm not sure about that now. However, she will sell big because, well, she is Taylor.
I know I'll be buying.

[Joe1240]

The Target Bonus Tracks are..

15. Ours
16. If This Was A Movie
17. Superman
18. Back To December (acoustic)
19. Haunted (acoustic)
20. Mine (acoustic)

www.target.com/Speak-Now-Deluxe-CD-Target/dp/B004008F58/ref=sc_ri_1?ie=UTF8&node=2431874011

[Kyla]

SO glad the 3 "re-mixes" are acoustic versions. And not weird pop mixes are whatever. For the 3 bonus tracks, "Ours" and "Superman" are 2 more new songs that they probably just couldn't fit on the album.

But "If This Was a Movie" was written with Martin Johnson of Boys Like Girls. I know they wrote some songs together a few years ago. So I guess this is from that. I don't think they've written together again recently?

[otternobetter87]

Yeah, I'll definitely be getting this from target.

[maria4hitz]

54 56 Taylor Swift Fearless 6,924 6,014,746

www.roughstock.com/blog/zac-brown-band-has-1-album-in-the-usa

[heartbreaklullaby]

New bio she wrote and posted on her site

Hi, I'm Taylor. I've been alive for 20 years now, and I finally have my own kitchen. I'm very excited about this, and generally excited by anything else that falls into the "cute" or "cozy" categories. I learned to play guitar when I was twelve fro m this guy named Ronnie who came over to fix my parents' computer. I like quilts. But that's probably because I'm always freezing cold. I LOVE Nashville. That's where I live, when I'm lucky enough to be there. I love the town so much, I sometimes feel like I should just roll the windows down in my car (nicknamed the Toyoat. Because it's a Toyota) and scream "I LOVE THIS TOWN" loudly out the windows. That wouldn't be weird, right? Every time I try and wink at someone, I mess it up and end up scaring people. My lucky number always has been and always will be 13. It pops up in front of me in the most obvious and undeniable ways, but only when something good is about to happen. I'm a Sagittarius. I think that means I'm always looking for something new. It also means I have a Christmas-themed birthday party every year. I love bright colors and things that make reality seem more whimsical than it is. I have a collection of ribbons and headbands, and I love them all the same. I over-think and over-plan and over-organize. I've been like this since I was a baby, before I was gigantically tall and over-talkative.

These days, I've been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: "Things I can change," and "Things I can't." It seems to help me sort through what to really stress about. But there I go again, over-planning and over-organizing my over-thinking! I write songs about my adventures and misadventures, most of which concern love. Love is a tricky business. But if it wasn't, I wouldn't be so enthralled with it. Lately I've come to a wonderful realization that makes me even more fascinated by it: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does! There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course. I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because love is unpredictable and it's frustrating and it's tragic and it's beautiful. And even though there's no way to feel like I'm an expert at it, it's worth writing songs about -- more than anything else I've ever experienced in my life.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list. Like for example, I'm still beyond obsessed with the winter season and I still start putting up strings of lights in September. I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. But some new things I've fallen in love with -- mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities. I love spraying perfumes I used to wear when I was in high school. It brings me back to the days of trying to get a close parking spot at school, trying to get noticed by soccer players, and trying to figure out how to avoid doing or saying anything uncool, and wishing every minute of every day that one day maybe I'd get a chance to win a Grammy. Or something crazy and out of reach like that. ;) I love old buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad's stories about college. I love the freedom of living alone, but I also love things that make me feel seven again. Back then naivety was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a while you need fries and a chocolate milkshake and your mom. I love picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a random page, then attempting to make that recipe. I've loved my fans from the very first day, but they've said things and done things recently that make me feel like they're my friends -- more now than ever before. I'll never go a day without thinking about our memories together.

For the last two years, I've been writing and recording an album called Speak Now. I only have the option of writing about things that happen in my life, so thankfully a LOT has happened in my life in the last two years. I know I don't always say the right thing at the right time or speak up when I should, but I write it all down. I get my guitar and a pen and all of a sudden, I have a chance to say exactly what I meant to say in real life. Some of the things I wrote about are things everyone saw me go through. Some of the things I wrote about are things nobody ever knew about. I'm beyond excited for you to hear these stories and confessions.

I think it's important that you know that I will never change. But I'll never stay the same either. Must be a Sagittarius thing.

I'm pretty stoked that you read this whole thing. I commend you for that. This was ridiculously long, and you probably have other stuff you could've done in the last four minutes. So to you, or anyone else who has spent four minutes on me in some way-- listening to just one song, or watching one of my videos¡K.Thank you. I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love.

--Taylor

[justlurkingaround]

^ cool bio :)

[Nadia]

I think aroud 600k.

i really excited to get this. Tay has alway been a fave of mine. her music is flawless

[👑 Eloquent ™]

"Speak Now" single cover (one of several tracks being distributed to iTunes before the album's release):



Available for download October 5th.

[Stephen]

I'm so excited. Oh, and I love the line "I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love." This chick is tew adorable, haha.

[Kyla]

Too similar to the Fearless single covers for me. She's using the same theme (re-enacting a line from the song) as she did for some of those.

Also, the picture itself is awkward and she looks like a mannequin.

[👑 Eloquent ™]

I kinda loved that about the last era (particularly the "You Belong With Me" cover), so it doesn't bother me much this time around. Isn't "Speak Now" the song written about a wedding she and a friend attended?

[Gravity.]

Oct 1, 2010 17:21:32 GMT -5 👑 Eloquent ™ said:

"Speak Now" single cover (one of several tracks being distributed to iTunes before the album's release):



Available for download October 5th.

I love the cover.

And I also really liked how her single covers had lines from the song on them.

[Kyla]

Oct 1, 2010 17:30:07 GMT -5 👑 Eloquent ™ said:

I kinda loved that about the last era (particularly the "You Belong With Me" cover), so it doesn't bother me much this time around. Isn't "Speak Now" the song written about a wedding she and a friend attended?

I loved that about the last era too. I just don't like that they couldn't come up with anything new for this one.

[Cerbius]

Great cover, can't wait to see it in HQ. :)

[Kyla]

Behinds the scenes of "Mine": LINK

She's so funny! "Troll songs for babies" lol

[Nadia]

Oct 1, 2010 17:21:32 GMT -5 👑 Eloquent ™ said:

"Speak Now" single cover (one of several tracks being distributed to iTunes before the album's release):



Available for download October 5th.

love it

[👑 Eloquent ™]

Oct 1, 2010 20:13:14 GMT -5 Kyla said:

Behinds the scenes of "Mine": LINK

She's so funny! "Troll songs for babies" lol

I love this woman. Who else would do something like that?

I especially enjoyed when the kids took advantage of the free "toy" offer and "massacred" the electronics section. "The 10-year-olds know what's up." lol

[Joe1240]

The Speak Now single cover is nice. I have a feeling that the rest of the itunes single covers are going to be just as nice as well. :)

[maria4hitz]

Taylor at the Roberto Cavalli party in Paris, France.
She looks stunning.

[fullonrainstorm]

She looked quite nice at the Roberto Cavalli Spring/Summer 2011 fashion show too(Milan Italy,Sep 27).