Taylor Swift celebrates

There’s no time any more these days for country starlight Taylor Swift to be upset over boys and broken hearts, especially when she’s on top of the world. Big Machine Records and Taylor Swift held a party entitled “Heavy Metal at the Hard Rock” on Jan. 28.

This gathering was to celebrate a laundry-list of accomplishments for Swift and her team. The successes include sales, digital and radio recognition. Several of the awards presented include #1 Radio Single and #1 Music Video (“Mine”), as well as Swift’s historic 1 million debut sales week for “Speak Now,” and being the highest selling artist of 2010.

Celebrated that night was also the fact that Swift will be launching her 90 show-19 country- “Speak Now 2011 World Tour” in Singapore on Feb. 9. A list of other reasons for celebration is as follows, courtesy of Big Machine Records publicist:

• For the second time in three years, Taylor Swift is Billboard & Nielsen SoundScan’s top-selling
artist of the year, with over 4.4 million albums sold in 2010.

• Taylor was also SoundScan’s top-selling artist in 2008, and her Fearless album was 2009’s
biggest-selling CD.

• Released in October, Speak Now sold 1,046,740 copies the first week, for the biggest debut-week sales for an album since 2005, and the biggest debut ever for a country studio album.

• Speak Now has achieved Triple Platinum+ status since its release.

• Every song from Speak Now has charted on the Billboard Hot 100, eleven of them at the same
time.

• The album’s lead single, “Mine,” has sold 1.6 million digital downloads to date.

• For the second consecutive year, Taylor is Billboard’s most-played artist, topping their annual all-genre Artist Airplay chart with more than 1.128 million airplay detections in 2010.

• With over 35 million tracks sold to date, Taylor remains the top selling digital artist in music history.

• Taylor has sold more than 4 million albums each year for three consecutive years, and is the only artist to sell 4+ million albums each of the last three years.

• Taylor’s Fearless is Quadruple Platinum and Taylor Swift is 5x Platinum.

• Taylor’s single “Love Story” recently exceeded 5 million digital tracks sold.

• Taylor’s latest Big Machine Records release, Speak Now, has spent 5 weeks at #1 on Billboard’s all-genre Top 200 Albums chart. Speak Now was 2010’s best-selling Internet album.

• Taylor’s career sales now exceed 20 million albums and 35 million song downloads.