Taylor Swift Sweeps CMA Awards

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Taylor Swift walked away from last
night's 43rd Annual CMA Awards ceremony as the history-making winner of FOUR
CMA Awards, including the industry's biggest honor - Entertainer of the Year.

A month shy of her twentieth birthday, Taylor became the youngest artist in
history, and the first female artist in a decade, to win the Entertainer of
the Year trophy. In the 43-year history of the CMA Awards, only six other
female acts have won the coveted top prize: Loretta Lynn (1972), Dolly Parton
(1978), Barbara Mandrell (1980,'81), Reba McEntire (1986), Shania Twain
(1999), and the Dixie Chicks (2000).

Taylor also won CMA Awards last night for Female Vocalist of the Year, Album
of the Year (for the critically-acclaimed and quadruple-platinum-plus Fearless
- Taylor was honored as both artist and producer), and Video of the Year (for
"Love Story"). Earlier in the day she was honored with the CMA's International
Artist Achievement Award. Taylor shared last night's Album of the Year
producer honors with her co-producer Nathan Chapman, and the Video of the Year
Award with director Trey Fanjoy.

Accepting her Entertainer of the year award, a tearful Taylor invited her band
to the stage to share the honors. "I'll never forget this moment," Taylor said
during her acceptance speech, "Because in this moment, everything that I have
ever wanted has happened to me."

One year to the day after the release of her Fearless album, last night's CMA
wins top a year of unparalleled success for Taylor. Released on Big Machine
Records, Fearless received rave reviews from the nation's top critics
(including Rolling Stone, The New York Times, the New Yorker, the Los Angeles
Times, and USA Today), and is the world's biggest-selling album this year, in
any genre. Fearless has earned Gold or Platinum sales certification in 16
countries spanning 5 continents, including achieving quadruple-platinum status
in the US, and has spawned singles that have topped the Country, Pop and Adult
Contemporary radio charts. Fearless was also named 2009 Album of the Year by
the Academy of Country Music, and is currently nominated for 2009 American
Music Awards for both Country and Pop/Rock Favorite Album.

Fearless has spent more weeks in the #1 position atop Billboard's Top 200
all-genre CD sales chart than any other album this decade. Taylor, whose
career record sales now top 10 million, holds the Billboard all-genre records
for the longest charting album of this century and for most Top 20 debuts in a
calendar year. Big Machine Records recently released a special CD/DVD Platinum
Edition of Taylor's Fearless album, and last week the title spent its 26th
week at #1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums Chart.

The TAYLOR SWIFT FEARLESS 2009 TOUR was the hottest concert ticket of the
year, wowing fans and critics worldwide. Capacity crowds packed arenas around
the globe -- every show on the tour sold out within minutes, including one at
Madison Square Garden in one minute, and one at Los Angeles' STAPLES center in
just two minutes. The blockbuster tour was chronicled in the one-hour
primetime NBC network special Dateline: On Tour With Taylor Swift. Taylor is
taking her show back on the road next year, with the FEARLESS 2010 TOUR
playing 37 shows in 29 cities in 22 states and provinces in the US and Canada,
plus seven dates in Australia.

Last week, Taylor was both the host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live,
receiving rave reviews and delivering the show's highest ratings of the
season. Earlier this year, Taylor guest-starred on the top-rated CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation, with her episode watched by more than 20 million viewers.
She also filmed a role as part of the ensemble cast in Garry Marshall's
highly-anticipated feature film "Valentine's Day," set for release in February
of next year. Other television appearances this year included the GRAMMY
Awards, the ACM Awards, the MTV VMA Awards, the CMT Music Awards, The Oprah
Winfrey Show (twice), Dancing With The Stars, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,
The Late Show with David Letterman, the Today Show, Good Morning America, The
Ellen Degeneres Show, and The View.

Taylor has appeared on several magazine covers over the past year, including
the upcoming December issue of InStyle. Other covers included Rolling Stone,
Billboard, Glamour (the title's biggest-selling issue of the year), Allure,
People StyleWatch, Redbook, Seventeen, and Teen Vogue.

For more information, please contact:

Natalie Kilgore Paula Erickson
Big Machine Records Erickson Public Relations
615.324.7769 615.665.5950
Natalie.kilgore@bigmachinemail.com paula@ericksonpr.com

SOURCE Big Machine Records

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Natalie.kilgore@bigmachinemail.com; or Paula Erickson of Erickson Public
Relations, +1-615-665-5950, paula@ericksonpr.com