RED, released on Big Machine Records, has topped the sales charts in 42 countries worldwide, with international sales topping 920,000 albums thus far. Taylor now has worldwide career record sales in excess of 26 million albums and 75 million song downloads. The fan response to Taylors RED album and tour has been matched by the projects critical acclaim, with the album earning rave reviews from critics around the globe. Vanity Fair dubbed Taylor officially the new Mick Jagger, calling her international chart-topper We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together the years best pop song. VF asks, Who is more interesting in pop right now? and praises Taylors hooks and insouciance, lauding her music as canny and knowing.
Lauded by The New York Times as one of the most important pop artists of the last decade, and by Rolling Stone as one of the few genuine rock stars weve got these days, 22 year-old Taylor Swift is a six-time GRAMMY winner, and is the youngest winner in history of the music industrys highest honor, the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Taylor is the only female artist in music history (and just the fourth artist ever) to twice have an album hit the 1 million first-week sales figure. She holds the record for the biggest digital sales week ever for a song by a woman, and for the second-largest song sales week overall.