To this end, at age twelve, she started writing songs herself, and learned to play the guitar with the help of a computer repairman who had fixed her family's computer on one occasion. Returning to her home town in Pennsylvania, Swift realized she had to distinguish herself from other aspiring country singers. She was rejected because record labels believed country music's middle-aged demographic would not listen to music by a teenage girl, which Swift firmly disbelieved. At age eleven, Swift traveled to Nashville with her mother to pitch demo tapes of karaoke covers to record labels for a contract. After watching a documentary about country singer Faith Hill, Swift felt sure she needed to move to Nashville, Tennessee-widely regarded as the home of country music -to pursue a career as a country singer. Taylor Swift developed an early interest in the performing arts. The album's crossover appeal shaped the country pop style of Swift's next two albums, and has been noted for inspiring a new generation of singer-songwriters in and outside country music. Her MySpace presence ushered in a younger demographic in country audiences who had mainly consisted of middle-aged listeners. Journalists attributed Taylor Swift 's success to Swift's online marketing atypical of country artists, who traditionally promoted their music via country radio. Certified seven times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), it made Swift the first solo female country artist to write or co-write every song on a platinum debut album. The album topped the US Billboard Top Country Albums chart for twenty-four weeks, and peaked at number five on the Billboard 200, becoming the longest-charting album of the 2000s decade. Taylor Swift was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2008 Academy of Country Music Awards and helped Swift earn accolades including a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. Swift promoted the album by interacting with her audiences through MySpace, embarking on a six-month radio tour in 2006, and opening tours for other country artists throughout 20.Д¬ritics praised the album's mainstream sensibility and Swift's songwriting abilities at a young age. Five singles supported Taylor Swift, including the Hot Country Songs number-ones ' Our Song' and ' Should've Said No', and Swift's first top-15 entry on the Billboard Hot 100, ' Teardrops on My Guitar'. Taylor Swift is primarily a country record with pop and pop rock elements, incorporating acoustic instruments such as guitars, banjos, and fiddles. The lyrics are about Swift's perspectives of life as a teenager, dealing with romantic relationships, friendships, and insecurity. The album was produced by Orrall and Nathan Chapman.

Of the eleven songs that made to the album, Swift has sole writing credits on three, and co-writing credits on the remaining with Robert Ellis Orrall, Brian Maher, Angelo Petraglia, and Liz Rose. She signed with Sony/ATV Tree publishing house, and Big Machine Records in 2005, to work on her debut album during her first high school year. Swift had relocated from Pennsylvania to Tennessee in 2004, at fourteen years old, to pursue a career as a country singer-songwriter. It was released through Big Machine Records in the US and Canada on October 24, 2006, and internationally on March 18, 2008.

Taylor Swift is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.

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