She is, quite simply, a global superstar. Taylor Swift is a ten-time Grammy winner, the youngest recipient in history of the music industry's highest honor, the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and she is the only female in the history of The Grammy's to win Album of the Year, twice. Taylor is the only artist in history to have an album hit the 1 million first-week sales figure three times (2010's Speak Now, 2012's RED and 2014's 1989). She's a household name whose insanely catchy yet deeply personal self-penned songs transcend music genres and generations.

It all started with her self-titled country-pop 2006 debut, originally released when she was just 16-years old and a freshman in high school. Writing or co-writing every song on the record, Taylor Swift topped the Country Albums Chart and has been certified five times platinum, yielding no less than five successful singles with "Tim McGraw," "Teardrops on My Guitar," "Our Song," "Picture to Burn" and "Should've Said No." Taylor Swift was still a teenager here, but she was a songwriter well beyond her years and a force to be reckoned with in the music business!

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