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This page is about the self-titled debut album by Taylor Swift. For other albums by Swift, see Taylor Swift albums discography.

Taylor Swift
Studio album by
Taylor Swift
ReleasedOctober 24, 2006 (2006-10-24)
Recorded2005
Studio
GenreCountry
Length40:28
LabelBig Machine
Producer
Taylor Swift chronology
Taylor Swift
(2006) 		The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection
(2007)
Singles from Taylor Swift
  1. "Tim McGraw"
    Released: June 19, 2006
  2. "Teardrops on My Guitar"
    Released: February 20, 2007
  3. "Our Song"
    Released: September 4, 2007
  4. "Picture to Burn"
    Released: February 3, 2008
  5. "Should've Said No"
    Released: May 19, 2008

Taylor Swift is the debut studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Swift had relocated from Pennsylvania to Tennessee to pursue a career in country music, signing a songwriting deal with Sony/ATV Tree Publishing at 14 in 2004. Her contract with Big Machine Records in 2005 enabled her to record the album with the producers Nathan Chapman and Robert Ellis Orrall during her freshman year of high school.

Swift wrote or co-wrote all songs; Orrall, Brian Maher, Angelo Petraglia, and Liz Rose were co-writers. Inspired by her outlook on life as a teenager, the songwriting employs autobiographical narratives to depict romantic relationships, friendships, and insecurity. A country album that features pop and rock elements, Taylor Swift incorporates acoustic arrangements driven by strings such as guitars, banjos, and fiddles. Music critics generally praised the production as appealing to the mass and Swift's songwriting for displaying earnest adolescent sentiments.

Big Machine released Taylor Swift in North America on October 24, 2006. The album was supported by five singles; "Our Song" and "Should've Said No" reached number one on Hot Country Songs, and "Teardrops on My Guitar" reached the top 10 on Pop Songs. Swift promoted the album via the social network Myspace, a six-month radio tour in 2006, and opening for other country artists throughout 2006 and 2007. The album was reissued several times in 2007 and 2008, and it was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2008 Academy of Country Music Awards.

In the United States, the album spent 24 weeks atop Top Country Albums and peaked at number five on the Billboard 200, where it became the longest-charting album of the 2000s decade. Certified seven-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, it made Swift the first solo female country artist to write or co-write every song on a platinum debut album. Her promotion strategy via Myspace ushered in a younger demographic to country music. The album's crossover-friendly country styles and autobiographical songwriting laid the groundwork to Swift's subsequent country pop albums.

Background

Taylor Swift had an interest in the performing arts as a child. While acting in a children's musical theatre company, she developed a fondness for singing and would sing country songs on the company's karaoke machine during the cast parties.[1] After watching a documentary about Faith Hill, she felt sure she needed to move to Nashville, Tennessee—the center of country music[2]—to become a country singer.[3] At 11, Swift broadened her performing capabilities by opening for Charlie Daniels and singing the national anthem of the United States at local sports games.[1] She traveled from her hometown in Pennsylvania to Nashville with her mother to pitch demo tapes of karaoke covers to record labels for a contract,[4] but they rejected and told her that her music would not cater to country music's middle-aged demographic.[5][6]

The rejections made Swift become determined to distinguish herself from other aspiring country singers.[5] At 12, she started writing songs and learned to play the guitar with the help of a computer repairman who had fixed her family's computer.[6] Her performance of "America the Beautiful" at the 2002 US Open caught the attention of Dan Dymtrow, a music manager who helped 13-year-old Swift get an artist development deal with RCA Records in Nashville.[7][8] To assist Swift's artistic endeavors, her father transferred his job to Nashville, and her family relocated to the Nashville suburb of Hendersonville, where she enrolled in the local public high school.[9]

Development and conception

Under Dymtrow's management, Swift had early exposure to show business, including an advertising tie-in with Abercrombie & Fitch, a music compilation CD with Maybelline, and a 2004 appearance in Vanity Fair.[10] Around that time, she signed a publishing deal with Sony/ATV Publishing House;[11] at 14, she was the youngest signee in the publishing company's history.[12] Swift commuted from Hendersonville to Nashville every afternoon after class to practice writing with experienced Music Row songwriters.[13][14] After one year on the development deal, Swift performed her self-written songs to the label executives, who decided to hold her off an official record deal and keep her in development until she was 18.[14][15] In a 2009 interview with The Daily Telegraph, Swift recalled her leaving RCA: "I genuinely felt that I was running out of time. I'd written all these songs and I wanted to capture these years of my life on an album while they still represented what I was going through."[14]

Swift invited record label executives to her showcase concert at Nashville's Bluebird Café on November 3, 2004;[16][17] among the invitees were Scott Borchetta, a music executive who had working experiences at MCA Nashville and DreamWorks Records.[18] At that time, Borchetta was planning to establish an independent record label that still needed financing. He offered to Swift and her parents that as soon as the label was set up, she would have a record deal with him.[14][18] Two weeks later, Swift called Borchetta to accept the offer.[18] The label was Big Machine Records, who partnered with Universal Music Group for music distribution.[19] According to Swift, she signed with Big Machine because the deal allowed her to write all songs that would feature in her albums.[20] Her father purchased a three-percent stake in the company.[21]

Of over 40 songs that Swift wrote for the album, 11 made the standard edition.[22] Seven songs were co-written by Liz Rose, who became an important collaborator and formed a lasting working relationship with Swift on later albums.[9] According to Rose, they had productive sessions because she respected Swift's vision and did not want to put her in the "Nashville cookie-cutter songwriting mold".[23] Robert Ellis Orrall and Angelo Petraglia co-wrote "A Place in This World", and Brian Maher co-wrote "Mary's Song (Oh My My My)" with Rose. Three tracks—"The Outside", "Should've Said No", and "Our Song"—were written solely by Swift.[24] The deluxe edition features three additional songs, co-written by Orrall, Petraglia, Brett James, and Troy Verges.[25]

After experimenting with different producers, Swift persuaded Big Machine to recruit Nathan Chapman, who had produced her demo album in a "little shed" behind the Sony/ATV offices.[26] Big Machine was skeptical about hiring Chapman because he had never produced a commercially released studio album but conceded because Swift felt they had the "right chemistry".[26] Before approaching Chapman, Swift conceptualized how her songs should sound: "I know exactly where I want the hook to be and [...] what instruments I want to use."[22] He has sole production credits on all songs but one, "The Outside", which credits Orrall as the producer and Chapman as an additional producer.[26] Recording took place for four months near the end of 2005.[26] When the recording and production wrapped, Swift had finished her freshman high-school year.[27]

Themes and lyrics

Taylor Swift follows the confessional songwriting of country music, but Swift said she did not write about stereotypical "tractors and hay bales" and instead was inspired by her adolescent observations and reflections on love and friendships.[28] To capture those immediate feelings in songs, she wrote anytime and anywhere, from studio sessions to school breaks.[9] This practice resulted in straightforward lyrics[9] that The Daily Telegraph found to have "an earnest naiveté".[29] Narrated from the perspective of an American teenage girl in a small town, the songs have their settings confined within high-school hallways and rural backroads, resulting in a personal and contemplative tone.[30][31] According to the musicologist James E. Perone, the songs evoke high-school sentiments while being "general and vague" about the characters' ages, suggesting that they could have been written by someone more experienced in life than the teenage Swift at the time.[32]

Much of Taylor Swift is about teenage romance, with its narratives being inspired by both Swift's relationships and her observations of others'.[13][26] "Tim McGraw" was inspired by a senior boyfriend during her freshman year of high school. In the lyrics, Swift's character hopes that after ending the relationship and leaving for college, the boyfriend would reminisce about her every time he hears their mutual favorite song by the country singer Tim McGraw;[33] according to Swift, the song in question is "Can't Tell Me Nothin'".[34] "Stay Beautiful", addressed to a character named Cory, describes Swift's admiration for him from afar without him knowing.[35] "Mary's Song (Oh My My My)", written in third-person perspective from the perspective of a character named Mary, portrays a love that has survived its trials and tribulations, and it ends with a marriage received by a supportive crowd.[36] In "Our Song", which Swift wrote for her high-school talent show,[37] her character sings about creating a song drawing from her and her boyfriend's daily experiences.[38] Unrequited love is the theme of "Teardrops on My Guitar", in which Swift's narrator is disappointed upon learning that the boy she dreams about, Drew, is in love with another girl.[39][40]

Breakup songs are also prominent on Taylor Swift.[41] "Picture to Burn" and "Should've Said No" both depict a vengeful attitude towards boys who cheat.[42] In "Picture to Burn", Swift's character criticizes her ex-boyfriend as self-centered and lying, and she vows avenge by dating his friends and burning photographic evidence of him;[43] the original version included the lyric, "That's fine; I'll tell mine you're gay,"[44] but the radio edit and subsequent versions modified it to: "That's fine; You won't mind if I say."[45][46] In "Should've Said No", Swift's character confronts an ex-lover that he should have resisted when he had a chance to cheat on her, telling him that he might still have her and not begging for forgiveness had he said no to the other girl.[47] "Cold as You" laments a fruitless relationship in which the lover does not appreciate the female protagonist.[48] Swift said it was her favorite song lyrically on the album, citing its hook ("I've never been anywhere cold as you"): "I love a line in a song where afterward you're just like... burn."[44]

In other songs, Swift sings about insecurity and self-consciousness.[49] "The Outside", which Swift wrote at 12, describes the loneliness she felt when her love of country music alienated her from her peers.[50] "A Place in This World", written by Swift at 13 when she first moved to Nashville,[51] expresses her uncertainty about where she truly belongs.[31] Swift wrote "Tied Together with a Smile" the day she learned one of her best friends had an eating disorder.[49] The song describes a young girl who lacks self-esteem and disguises her inner turbulence with a smile, but Swift's character tells her that she will never overcome her struggles until she learns to love herself.[52]

Music and composition

Taylor Swift incorporates country music elements, including a twang in Swift's vocals and acoustic arrangements composed of fiddles, guitars, and banjos.[31][53] Big Machine marketed the album to country radio,[23] but music critics debated its genre classification. Some publications' reviews appeared in their columns for country music,[54][55][56] while others commented that the songs incorporate influences of pop,[31][53] rock,[57][58] and rap;[59] Jon Caramanica from The New York Times called the overall sound "pop-minded country".[60] Grady Smith from Rolling Stone listed "Tim McGraw", "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Our Song", and "Picture to Burn" among Swift's "countriest songs" that evoke "classic country" in their instruments and song structure.[61] According to Maura Johnston, in her review for Pitchfork, the album is a "solid" country record, but many of its songs have a "deft melodic touch and conversational way" that make them seamlessly translatable to mainstream pop music.[53]

The opening track "Tim McGraw" is an understated acoustic guitar–driven ballad[62] that incorporates the '50s progression (I–vi–IV–V);[30] its melody is defined by repeated short motifs and variations of one figure within a small pitch range, and its refrain—and to a lesser degree, its verses—extensively uses syncopation at the sixteenth-note level.[63] According to Perone, these elements evoke diverse styles, such as the nostalgic feel of 1950s/1960s rock and roll and doo-wop, and the melodic rhythms of contemporary alternative rock and hip hop.[63] The genre-agnostic sound of "Tim McGraw" informs the styles of other tracks.[64] "Picture to Burn" similarly uses syncopation at the sixteenth-note level, and Swift's vocals in the song imitate the jazz–influenced flexibility of 1970s female singer-songwriters such as Rickie Lee Jones, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell.[41] Its arrangement features a mix of banjo, mandolin, pedal steel, and fiddle,[43] and separate solos of banjo and electric guitar in the break.[41]

"Teardrops on My Guitar" has a tender production composed of hushed pedal steel, subdued banjo, and a mix of acoustic and electric guitars,[65] with a sound that critics deem adaptable into pop, rock, or country.[40] The version released to pop radio replaced the banjo with a drum loop;[66] Perone comments that this change transformed the track from a genre-agnostic tune to a "rather anonymous pop ballad".[40] "A Place in This World" is built on picked banjos and features influences of 1990s alternative rock,[31][51] and "Cold as You" has a slow-tempo balladic production instrumented by sorrowful fiddles.[67] "The Outside", similar to "Tim McGraw" and "Picture to Burn", uses 1970s jazz–influenced vocal flexibility and short musical motifs that evoke alternative rock; its melody alternates between syncopated phrases at the eighth-note and sixteenth-note levels.[48] The arrangement of "Tied Together with a Smile" is composed of prominent acoustic guitars, fiddles, and Dobro, evoking folk and country arrangements.[68]

"Stay Beautiful", similar to "Tim McGraw", follows the '50s progression;[35] it incorporates traditional styles of folk and country.[69] In "Should've Said No", the electric guitar tone evokes the texture of rock power ballads, while the fiddles in the introduction and break and the use of minor chords and the pentatonic scale showcase influences of Anglo-American folk music.[70] "Mary's Song (Oh My My My)" is a mandolin–led[69] country pop track[71] with influences of traditional country folk.[70] The standard album's closing track, "Our Song", is built on a banjo riff[71] with a dynamic contrast between the verses and the refrains: the verses use repeated pitches in the lower register of Swift's vocals, with her singing at one pitch for a sustained period; the refrains emphasize the fifth scale-step with a wider-ranging melody and higher-pitched vocals, resulting in an upbeat and tuneful sound.[25] Some critics identify elements of hip hop and rhythmic music on the phrasings and the final refrain's compressed drums.[59][72]

Release and promotion

Prior to releasing Taylor Swift, Big Machine released "Tim McGraw" to country radio on June 19, 2006, as Swift's debut single.[73] Swift spent the summer of 2006 with her mother and record label personnel putting CD copies of the single to pitch to country radio stations across the United States.[74] To promote the single and the album, she embarked on a six-month radio tour, continuing through the end of 2006.[26] "Tim McGraw" peaked at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.[75] On Hot Country Songs, the single reached the top 10 by December 2006[76] and eventually peaked at number six in January 2007.[77]

Big Machine released Taylor Swift on October 24, 2006, in North America.[78] Swift designed doodle graphics for the album packaging.[24] In the liner notes, Swift included hints at the subjects of her songs: in the lyrics to each track, she capitalized certain syllables that would spell out the message;[26][79] she was inspired by the Beatles' practice of hiding secret messages in their records.[80] On the day of the album's release, Swift performed live on Good Morning America and The Megan Mullally Show.[81] She further promoted the album via live appearances on America's Got Talent[82] and Total Request Live,[83] and by opening concerts for other country musicians, including Rascal Flatts in October–November 2006,[81] George Strait in January–March 2007,[84] Brad Paisley in April–November 2007,[85] and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill in July 2007.[86]

Taylor Swift was reissued several times between 2006 and 2008, with each edition containing bonus tracks and music videos.[25] A deluxe edition was released on November 6, 2007. It contains 3 bonus tracks—"I'm Only Me When I'm with You", "Invisible", and "A Perfectly Good Heart"—and a recording of Swift's first phone conversation with Tim McGraw. Its DVD accompaniment includes the music videos of "Tim McGraw", "Teardrops on My Guitar", and "Our Song"; behind-the-scenes footage; and a home video.[87] An "enhanced" version containing the 3 bonus tracks and the "pop version" of "Teardrops on My Guitar" was released in 2008.[25] In addition to traditional promotion, Swift extensively used her Myspace profile to communicate with her audiences, sharing her daily blogs and song information. Her online marketing strategy boosted the album's popularity among teenagers and young adults; Swift and Big Machine decided to release "Our Song" as a single because of the positive feedback it received on Myspace.[12]

Four more singles were released: "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Our Song", "Picture to Burn", and "Should've Said No".[88] "Teardrops on My Guitar" had a crossover release to pop radio;[65] it peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top 10 on four of Billboard's airplay charts: Hot Country Songs, Pop Songs, Adult Pop Songs, and Adult Contemporary,[89] becoming Swift's first crossover success on the pop charts.[90][91] "Our Song" and "Should've Said No" reached number one on Hot Country Songs.[88] With "Our Song", Swift became the first female solo country artist to single-handedly write and sing a number-one country song.[92] All five singles were certified platinum or higher by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[93] From August 2019, Big Machine re-released the Taylor Swift singles on limited-edition vinyl. This was met with backlash from Swift's fans in light of the purchase of the masters of her first six studio albums.[94][95]

Critical reception

Taylor Swift ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic67/100[96]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[97]
Christgau's Consumer Guide(choice cut)[98]
Country Weekly[99]
The Palm Beach PostA[54]
The Philadelphia Inquirer[100]
Pitchfork6.7/10[53]
PopMatters6/10[101]
Rolling Stone[58]

Taylor Swift received generally positive reviews.[102] Most critics praised Swift's songwriting for sounding original and novel despite using familiar and somewhat unsophisticated themes;[25] Laura Snapes of The Guardian said that reviewers were impressed by her "pure yet prematurely wise depictions of teenage love".[103] The review aggregate site Metacritic reported five published reviews and assigned the album an aggregated score of 67 out of 100.[96]

In Country Weekly, Chris Neal praised Swift's "honesty, intelligence and idealism" that made her stand out among teenage singers.[99] Several reviews were impressed by Swift's maturity while retaining a sense of youthful innocence in her lyrics, including Ken Rosenbaum of The Toledo Blade,[104] Nick Cristiano of The Philadelphia Inquirer,[100] Jeff Tamarkin of AllMusic,[97] and Rolling Stone.[58] The Palm Beach Post's James Fontaine additionally highlighted the "musical maturity" for effectively communicating the adolescent sentiments.[54] The Morning Call's Keith Groller said that the album was not groundbreaking but could appeal to a wide-ranging audience with its adolescent earnestness.[56]

Critics commented on the album's pop sensibility—Neal and Rolling Stone found it appealing to a mainstream audience.[58][99] Tamarkin commented that Swift's "considerably strong voice" straddled the precarious boundary between country and pop, and criticized producer Chapman for applying "a gloss that not all [songs] really require".[97] In the Chicago Tribune, Chrissie Dickinson described Taylor Swift as "a slick package, pleasant enough but devoid of anything resembling gritty traction".[55] In a mixed review for PopMatters, Roger Holland complimented the production quality of certain tracks, but deemed the album overall a misstep for Swift's true appeal: "It's to be hoped that when she finds both her place and her full grown voice, she's able to find an accommodation between the country tradition and her very obvious pop sensibilities."[101] Robert Christgau rated the album a "cut" score ((choice cut)), and selected "Tim McGraw" and "Picture to Burn" as highlights.[98][note 2]

Taylor Swift helped Swift earn a nomination for New Female Vocalist of the Year at the 2007 Academy of Country Music Awards, a Horizon Award at the 2007 Country Music Association Awards, and a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards (2008).[106][107] The album itself was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2008 Academy of Country Music Awards.[108]

Retrospective reviews have remained favorable toward Swift's early songwriting. Maura Johnston from Pitchfork described the album as an honest record about teenage perspectives, which set Swift apart from the manufactured albums that "weighed down former teen sensations".[53] Jonathan Bradley from Billboard lauded how Swift captured immediate emotions and feelings with "details... so sharp at so small a scale".[31] In July 2022, Rolling Stone ranked Taylor Swift at number 32 on its list of the "100 Best Debut Albums of All Time".[109]

Commercial performance

Taylor Swift was a sleeper success in the United States.[13][110] It debuted at number 19 on the Billboard 200 chart dated November 11, 2006, with first-week sales of 40,000 copies.[111] Because albums often drop in sales after their initial release, Swift did not expect her album to remain long on the chart: "I would be incredibly lucky to see this album certified Gold."[13] Contrary to her expectations, Taylor Swift kept selling at a fairly consistent pace.[13] By November 2007, the album had sold over a million copies.[112] It reached its highest sales week on the Billboard 200 chart dated January 5, 2008, when it sold 187,000 copies and charted at number eight.[113]

The album reached its peak at number five on the chart dated January 19, 2008, in its 63rd week of charting.[114] Spending 157 weeks on the Billboard 200 by October 2009, Taylor Swift marked the longest stay on the chart by any album released in the 2000s decade.[115] It has spent a total of 280 weeks on the chart as of August 2023.[116] On Top Country Albums, Taylor Swift peaked at number one for 24 non-consecutive weeks.[117] By January 2024, the album had sold 5.871 million pure copies in the United States.[118] It had been certified seven times Platinum by the RIAA for earning over seven million album-equivalent units in the nation.[119]

In Canada, Taylor Swift peaked at number 14 on the Canadian Albums Chart[120] and was certified Platinum by Music Canada (MC).[121] The album peaked at number 33 on the Australian Albums Chart in March 2010,[122] and was certified Platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA).[123] In the United Kingdom, it peaked at number 81 on the Albums Chart[124] and was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales of more than 100,000 copies.[125] The album had sold 198,000 units in the United Kingdom by October 2022.[126] It appeared on albums charts in New Zealand (peaking at number 38),[127] Japan (53),[128] Ireland (59),[129] and Scotland (17).[130]

Impact and legacy

Ms. Swift ... has quickly established herself as the most remarkable country music breakthrough artist of the decade. In part that's because ... [her] career has been noteworthy for what happens once the songs are finished. She has aggressively used online social networks to stay connected with her young audience in a way that ... is proving to be revolutionary in country music, ... helping country reach a new audience.

— Jon Caramanica, The New York Times (2008)[131]

Taylor Swift was released in a time when female country artists were gaining momentum in popularity.[53][58] Nashville industry experts nonetheless disapproved of Swift's debut as a teenager[11][23] because they considered the album's adolescent themes inappropriate for country music's middle-aged key demographic.[88][132] Jim Malec of American Songwriter observed that contrary to industry expectations,Taylor Swift's success on country radio, particularly with the track "Our Song", established Swift as one of the few teenage female artists to be equally successful with male counterparts in a format dominated by men.[88]

Though critics questioned the album's country-music categorization,[133] Rolling Stone remarked that following the Dixie Chicks' 2003 controversy, which left "a huge space opened up in the heart of the country audience", Swift "has completely filled it ... with a sound that's not just rock-informed but teen-poppy too".[58] Jon Caramanica of The New York Times observed that, although the country-pop crossover sound was facilitated by previous successful singers, Swift was the first country artist to embrace the status of a pop star.[131] Taylor Swift made her the first female solo artist in country music to write or co-write every song on a platinum-certified debut album.[134][78] Its production laid the groundwork to Swift's subsequent country-pop discography, whose chart success straddled the perceived boundary between the two genres.[133][135][136]

Music journalists attributed the album's success to Swift's songwriting and online marketing strategy.[11] While online promotion was familiar to pop and hip hop artists, she was the first country artist to promote her songs on social media services like Myspace;[88][131] she also relied on social media to promote her subsequent releases, which brought her a loyal fan base.[132][137] Her social media presence ushered in a younger audience consisted of mostly teenage girls who listened to country music—a previously unheard demographic.[11] The autobiographical narratives on Taylor Swift defined Swift's songwriting over the next decade,[29][31] which Billboard noted to inspire a new generation of aspiring singer-songwriters.[132] Consequence stated Taylor Swift was the blueprint for songs focused on unrequited love and suffering, paving the way for "future teenie boppers" such as Conan Gray's "Heather" (2020) and Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License" (2021).[138] Rolling Stone opined, "if Taylor Swift retired right after dropping her debut album, she'd still be remembered as a legend today [...] Taylor debuted with complete mastery of a genre she was also completely transforming."[109] According to Entertainment Weekly, the commercial success of her debut helped the infant Big Machine go on to sign Garth Brooks and Jewel.[12]

Track listing

All tracks are produced by Nathan Chapman except where noted.

Taylor Swift standard track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Tim McGraw"
3:54
2."Picture to Burn"
  • Swift
  • Rose
2:55
3."Teardrops on My Guitar"
  • Swift
  • Rose
3:35
4."A Place in This World"
3:22
5."Cold as You"
  • Swift
  • Rose
4:01
6."The Outside" (
  • Orrall
  • Chapman[a]
)		Swift3:29
7."Tied Together with a Smile"
  • Swift
  • Rose
4:11
8."Stay Beautiful"
  • Swift
  • Rose
3:58
9."Should've Said No"Swift4:04
10."Mary's Song (Oh My My My)"
  • Swift
  • Rose
  • Brian Maher
3:35
11."Our Song"Swift3:24
Total length:40:28
Deluxe edition bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
12."I'm Only Me When I'm with You" (
  • Orrall
  • Petraglia
)
  • Swift
  • Orrall
  • Petraglia
3:35
13."Invisible" (Orrall)
  • Swift
  • Orrall
3:26
14."A Perfectly Good Heart" (
  • James
  • Verges
)
3:42
15."Taylor Swift's 1st Phone Call with Tim McGraw" 4:44
Total length:55:55
2008 enhanced edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
15."Teardrops on My Guitar" (pop version)2:58
Total length:54:09

Notes

  1. ^ additional production
  • Upon its release, a special enhanced CD version of the album was released, featuring the "Tim McGraw" music video and performance at the Grand Ole Opry.[139]
  • In addition to the bonus tracks, the deluxe edition also contains the single versions of "Teardrops on My Guitar" and "Our Song", replacing the original versions. It was released with the bonus DVD disc, featuring more than an hour of video content. A special deluxe edition, released at Target, contains an extended DVD content.[140]

Personnel

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications for Taylor Swift, with pure sales where available
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[123] 2× Platinum 140,000‡
Canada (Music Canada)[121] Platinum 100,000^
Singapore (RIAS)[171] Gold 5,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[125] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[119] 7× Platinum 5,871,000[118]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release formats for Taylor Swift
Region Date Edition Format Label Ref.
United States October 24, 2006 Standard
Big Machine [172]
November 6, 2007 Deluxe CD+DVD [173]
March 18, 2008 Enhanced [174]
Australia October 4, 2008 International CD
[175]
New Zealand [176]
Germany March 8, 2009 [177]
United Kingdom August 3, 2009 Virgin EMI [178]
Japan June 30, 2010 Universal [179]
Deluxe CD+DVD [180]
United States November 18, 2016 International / Deluxe LP Big Machine [181]
Germany [182]

Footnotes

  1. ^ This cover was used for the standard and 2008 editions of the album. The 2007 deluxe edition features a different image of Swift.
  2. ^ In Robert Christgau's rating, a "cut" ((choice cut)) means "a good song on an album that isn't worth your time or money".[105]
  3. ^ Compiled by Billboard for albums 1963–2015[166][167]
  4. ^ Compiled by Billboard for albums 1963–2017[168][169]
  5. ^ Compiled by Billboard for albums 1963–2016[170]

References

Citations

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