Feb. 17, 2009 — Just when you think Taylor Swift’s done everything a new artist can do in her first three years, she proves you wrong. Now she’s reached new territory by hitting No. 1 on the USA Today Mediabase Top 40 singles chart — not the country singles, but the pop singles, where "Love Story" is now receiving more airplay than the current hits by Beyonce, Britney Spears and the All-American Rejects.
That does not signal a change in her status as one of country’s top stars. In fact, when she performed last week at San Antonio’s AT&T Center, Country Music Hall of Famer George Strait dropped by to see her.
Despite her upper-echelon status, Taylor remains down to earth as she considers her romantic future. The woman who dated a Jonas Brother and sang with Miley Cyrus on the Grammy Awards doesn’t have to have a celebrity boyfriend.
"I just want to date a nice person," she told the United Kingdom’s News Of The World. "Even if he’s a waiter in London."
Nevertheless, Taylor’s label, Big Machine Records, continues to push for more honors. The Academy of Country Music sent out electronic ballots to its members on Monday for revised voting in the Album of the Year category, and within five hours, Big Machine sent out e-mails to ACM voters offering a free download of Taylor’s Fearless album.
If Fearless ends up on the ballot — and it’s a good possibility, given that it spent eight weeks at the top of the all-genre Billboard 200 album chart — it would give Taylor three nominations total. Fearless is one of 20 albums vying for the five final-round slots, and each of the ACM’s Top 5 current nominees — Brad Paisley, Heidi Newfield, Jamey Johnson, Kenny Chesney and George Strait — have a CD in consideration for Album of the Year.
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