Taylor Swift Gives $4 Million to Country Hall of Fame!

Taylor Swift is donating $4 million dollars to the Country Hall of Fame expansion!

Officials from the museum said the donation is “the largest given to the museum by an artist and is the second largest from an individual”.

Swift’s donation will go towards the Taylor Swift Education Center – here is a description of the new addition:

“Swift’s education center will have its own exterior entrance and is 7,500 square feet-plus spread over two stories. It will include three classrooms and exhibit space and will allow the museum to add to its youth education programs. The new space will house interactive activities such as a musical petting zoo and a “wet” classroom space to make concert posters and other art projects.”

Thanks for your musical generosity, Swifty!!



Source: Suntimes.com   
Written by: Sweet Beat, 05/17/2012

Taylor Swift Gets 3 CMT Nominations!

Taylor Swift has been nominated for three different CMT awards!

Here are the categories she was nominated for:

- Video Of The Year: “Safe and Sound” Featuring The Civil Wars
- Female Video Of The Year: “Ours
- Collaborative Video Of The Year: “Safe and Sound” Featuring The Civil Wars

Be sure to tune in on June 6th to watch the awards show and see if she wins any of her categories!

Below is the video for “Ours” that was nominated for Female Video of the Year.

Congratulations on all your nominations, Taylor!



Source: DisneyDreaming.com   
Written by: Sweet Beat, 04/24/2012

Taylor Swift Working on Her Next Album!

Taylor Swift announced via Twitter that she’s already working on her next album (Does this poor girl never sleep?)!

Within the last couple of months, Taylor put out two songs for ‘The Hunger Games‘ soundtrack, released a song with B.O.B. and collaborated with Justin Bieber for a track on his new album.

Swifty shared this picture and said she was “so happy” to be working on new music.

Taylor always brings her A-game when she gets to making music so we know this next album will have nothing but hits! Can’t wait!



Written by: Sweet Beat, 04/13/2012

Taylor Swift Will Be on Justin’s New ‘Believe’ Album!

We know that Justin Bieber has been collaborating with many different artists on his upcoming album (Drake, Lil Wayne, Usher, Timbaland, Pharrell, Kanye West, Will.i.am, Mike Posner), but now we realize he wasn’t kidding when he said that every track will be compeletely different.

Adding to the current list of celebs who worked with Justin is gal-pal Taylor Swift.

We are really excited to see what touch the country star will bring to the album – especially in comparison to the rappers/R&B artists who’ve collaborated with Justin so far.



Written by: Sweet Beat, 04/11/2012

Taylor Swift Wins Entertainer of the Year!

Taylor Swift certainly had a very busy weekend!

After receiving the Big Help Award from Michelle Obama at the Kids Choice Awards, Taylor flew out to Las Vegas to attend the Academy of Country Music Awards.

Taylor won the biggest award of the night, Entertainer of the Year, as the only female against fellow nominees Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney and Brad Paisley.

Taylor was supposed to take high-school cancer patient Kevin McGuire as her date, but he became too sick to attend. Taylor did honor him with a shout out when she received her award and we hope that Kevin becomes well enough to meet the country star soon.

Here is a video of Taylor receiving her award!



Written by: Sweet Beat, 04/03/2012

Michelle Obama Will Present Award to Taylor Swift

Not only has Taylor Swift received numerous nominations for the Kids Choice Awards, she is also the recipient of one very special award.

Taylor is receiving the Big Help Award for all of her philanthropic efforts and it will be presented to her by none other than Michelle Obama!

Michelle received the Big Help Award herself back in 2010, so it’s only fitting that she be the one to present Taylor with this years award.

Taylor has worked with the Make A Wish Foundation, St. Jude Medical Center, Habitat for Humanity and has assisted with U.S. tornado and flood relief.

This is such a big award to receive and we couldn’t be prouder that Taylor has earned it!

Tune in to the Kids Choice Awards on Nickelodeon on March 31st to see Taylor presented with this honorable award!

 



Source: People.com   
Written by: Sweet Beat, 03/28/2012

Taylor Swift Performs ‘Hunger Games’ Song!

If you didn’t already know, the talented Taylor Swift has recorded not one but TWO songs for ‘The Hunger Games‘ soundtrack.

The first song she recorded for the soundtrack was ‘Safe & Sound‘ – this song was a collaboration with The Civil Wars and has already had a music video released!

The second song she recorded for the album is called ‘Eyes Wide Open‘.

With ‘The Hunger Games’ being finally released this week, Taylor was able to perform the new song!

She performed this song for the first time at one of her last stops on the tour in New Zealand!

Here’s a video of her performing this song for the first time ever!!



Source: Popstar.com   
Written by: Sweet Beat, 03/22/2012

Taylor Swift Launches “13 Days of Wonder” Sweepstakes!

Taylor Swift is launching a “13 Days of Wonder” sweepstakes where fans can win a gown inspired by the Christian Siriano dress Taylor wore in her Wonderstruck commercial!

“Putting on a really special dress, like the gown I got to wear in my Wonderstruck commercial, is an incredible feeling, and I’m really excited about sharing that with a fan,” said Taylor Swift.

You can enter by clicking on the Wonderstruck tab on Taylor’s Facebook starting today for a chance to be one of 12 girls to receive a bottle of Wonderstruck.

The grand prize winner will win the Wonderstruck-inspired gown and a bottle of Taylor’s fragrance! You can enter every day that the contest runs to increase your chance of winning!

Good luck, Sweetys!



Written by: Sweet Beat, 03/21/2012

Taylor Swift and Her Cat Discuss the ACM Awards!

Taylor Swift has posted an adorable video of herself explaining how the ACM (American Country Music) Awards work to her cat, Meredith.

If you are unsure how voting works for these awards, or just want to see Taylor’s totally adorbs little kitty, check out the video below.

Let us know what you think and if this helped you understand the ACM’s!



Written by: Sweet Beat, 03/20/2012

The New Generation is Taking Over – iTunes That Is!

The teen generation is quickly taking over the music world and the proof is in the iTunes!

One Direction has skyrocketed on the charts after yesterdays performance on the today show – bringing their album to #1 on iTunes and putting 3 of their songs in the top 100.

Carly Rae Jepsen is also setting new records for herself today – her famous single “Call Me Maybe” is now in the #7 spot!! This is especially impressive when you take into consideration that her song was accidentally deleted from iTunes when it was in the #17 spot and had to start climbing the charts from scratch!

Cody Simpson‘s new song “So Listen” featuring T-Pain, which was barely released today, has already reached #87 on iTunes (and the day is still young)! Wow!

Bella Thorne and Zendaya Coleman are also now holding the #1 spot for their new mash-up music video on iTunes – the video is for each of their singles “TTYLXOX” (#43) and “Something to Dance For” (#66) – respectively.

Selena Gomez‘s “Love You Like a Love Song“, which is by no means a new-born, is still holding on to a #72 spot even after all this time! We know that we are still far from being sick of this catchy tune!

Taylor Swift is also holding down two songs within the top 100 category – but there’s no surprises there! Taylor always seems to have at least one song in the top spots! Keep ‘em coming, Taylor!

We can only imagine how much the teens will dominate the music scene once Justin Bieber‘s new album drops! We can’t wait for the King of Pop to join his peers in this new teen music phenomenon!



Written by: Sweet Beat, 03/13/2012