Taylor Swift shares a heartfelt tribute to Dolly Parton:
“A world without Dolly doesn’t feel possible, real, or right.
But because of the eternally generous way she spent her time on this earth and the countless lives she changed for the better, her legacy will be an everlasting one.
She was truly the gift that kept on giving. Dolly gave us someone to look up to while encouraging us to be who we are as individuals. Somehow she was able to give us her lessons about the world gently and honestly, simultaneously, and oftentimes hilariously.
She managed to give the world the ultimate mystery and fantasy in some corners of her life, but to give full transparency in the ways that counted. Somehow she was true grace and true grit, all in one dazzling person. She possessed the softest heart when it came to the struggles of others, and a backbone of steel to defend her own self worth as an artist.
Along with her other fans, I am so grateful for all of it. For the melodies and lyrics she wrote that thawed even the coldest hearts. For the millions of books she provided children all over the world so that they might fall in love with stories the way she did. For the tightropes she walked so that young girls like me could grow up dreaming of joining the circus too. Dolly, I’ll think of you each step of the way.”
Taylor Swift’s letter following her induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, where she is set to became the YOUNGEST artist in HISTORY to receive the honor:
“From the time I started writing songs as a child, I fixated on Nashville as the perfect place to be,I wanted to learn with and from the best and get to immerse myself in a community of storytellers, and thankfully Nashville turned out to be exactly what I’d dreamed of. A town that validated and prioritized hard work, determination and imagination. Where the writers show up to work every day even when the mysterious muses and the magic don’t. To be honored by this city I love so much is a beautiful thing, and I’m very grateful.”
‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ has scored the biggest opening weekend of all-time at the domestic box office ($360M).
It has surpassed ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ ($357M).
Today marks #20YearsOfTaylorSwift.
Widely regarded as the biggest star on the planet, Taylor Swift has cultivated an era-defining career spanning 20 years, with her twelve record-shattering albums catapulting her into music history’s Big 5 (joining The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, and Queen), claiming the honor of being the #1 best-selling female artist of all time (with 270 million album units) and solidifying her place as the de facto leader of the 21st century.
She is the #1 highest-grossing touring artist of all time, the #1 Billboard 200 artist of all time, the #1 most-streamed artist in Spotify history, the #2 most-streamed artist in Apple Music history, the #1 best-selling artist of the 21st century, the #1 most-awarded female artist of all time, the youngest woman to ever be inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the only musical act to ever be hailed TIME’s Person of the Year, the only artist to ever have eight 1M+ debuts on Billboard 200, and the record holder for the most Album of the Year wins in GRAMMYs’ seven-decade history (with a legendary four AOTY wins).
Among the near-unbreakable records that have cemented and immortalized her legacy, the biggest of them all are her cataclysmic, economy-shifting, earthshaking Eras Tour holding the title as the #1 highest-grossing tour of all time (with an unprecedented $2.077 billion total); her streaming behemoth “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT” obliterating the record for the biggest album debut in Spotify history (with a whopping 314.5 million first-day streams); her being the only artist in history to ever *completely* sweep the entire Top 10, the entire Top 12, and the entire Top 14 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart; and her sales juggernaut “The Life of a Showgirl” holding the record for the biggest album debut in Billboard 200 history, amassing an astronomical 4.005 million album copies (U.S.) on its first week alone and practically breaking every single sales record in existence.
Her monumental 13th studio album is yet to come.
All of Taylor Swift’s #1 hits on the Hot 100:
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Shake It Off
Blank Space
Bad Blood
Look What You Made Me Do
cardigan
willow
All Too Well (Taylor’s Version/10 Minute)
Anti-Hero
Cruel Summer
Is It Over Now?
Fortnight
The Fate of Ophelia
Opalite
I Knew It, I Knew You
The most for any artist in the 21st century.