Taylor Swift: A Biography

By: Emily Harris

Narrated by: Claire De Cleene Neigenfind

Length: 1 hr and 1 min

Publisher's summary

Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter. One of the world's leading contemporary recording artists, she is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music. She signed with the label Big Machine Records and became the youngest artist ever signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. Her 2006 self-titled debut album peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 and spent the most weeks on the chart in the 2000s. The album's third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Hot Country Songs chart.

Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the success of pop crossover singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless became the best-selling album of 2009 in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest Album of the Year winner. As a songwriter, Swift has received awards from the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame and was included in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time in 2015. She is also the recipient of 10 Grammys, six Guinness World Records, one Emmy Award, 23 Billboard Music Awards, and 12 Country Music Association Awards.

Swift is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albums - including 27.8 million in the US - and 130 million single downloads. She has appeared in Time's 100 most influential people in the world (2010 and 2015), Forbes' top-earning women in music (2011-2015), Forbes' 100 most powerful women (2015), and Forbes' Celebrity 100 (2016). Her inclusion in the third of these made her the youngest woman on the list, and she ranked first in Celebrity 100.

©2018 Emily Harris (P)2018 Flâneur Media

VERY ENTERTAINING

I found myself lost in this biography. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to learn about her upbringing!

Her accomplishments/awards

I like hearing the history and progression of the albums gave me a better understanding of just how her life and music flows together

Great ! Good narration and clarity. Highly recommended for any age.

Good narration and clarity. Highly recommend for anyone age. New information I was not aware of.

Not that great!

I wish I hadn’t wasted my audible credit on this. If I had a dollar for every time she said the name Taylor I would be as rich as Taylor.

Excellent recounting of the early career of Taylor

This Audible is an excellent recounting of the early career of Taylor Swift. It was very a very short book but did address both her career highs (numerous awards) and
owe (hello, ye). Taylor is a very remarkable woman and her immense talent was obvious from an early age. The timeline ends around "Speak Now" album and tour.

I received a free code for this Audible. The review is voluntary and honest.

They used IMDB and Wikipedia. Don’t waste your money

Sounds like the author did a quick IMDB search alongside Wikipedia. Disappointing to sit through and I was hoping for so much more.

Basic Swiftie information

I have been a Swiftie for years and thought it would be fun to read this book. The information was very basic and well publicized information. It wasn’t well written. Just went from one fact to the next.