From Roman White’s (director) blog-

“After much shooting, editing and A LOT of work, I am excited the video for Taylor’s new single, “MINE,” is FINISHED! Creating this piece was beyond fun, and I’ve honestly never had a better time on a shoot. Was it crazy hot? Yes. Were there tons of bugs? Yes. Was all of this offset by the insanely gorgeous scenery? 100% YES!

We shot the entire piece near Portland, Maine and much lobster was eaten! My AMAZING producer, Tameron Hedge, actually got accosted by a HUGE seagull who took off with her lobster roll (that’s how good they were). Other than that one little incident, Maine was absolute perfection. On the first day, we shot on a private estate with more than 2,000 acres and a private beach, rounding out the second day in a small harbor town. There was a lot going on, and I had a BLAST with the entire gang!

The video should premier soon and there’s so much more to say, but I don’t want to give anything away. Until then, look for the premiere coming soon!!!”

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NEW YORK (Billboard) – If the rest of Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated new album is as strong as its finely crafted lead single, then it’s a sure bet that her career juggernaut will continue.

“Mine” possesses a vibrant energy that perfectly complements her impassioned vocals. As the artist matures personally and professionally, the song demonstrates that she’s successfully making the transition from a teen ingenue writing about high school crushes to a young woman exploring the complexities of adult relationships. Swift is a master at creating memorable lines, and one of the standouts here is, “You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter.” By no means is “Mine” so heavy that she’ll lose any of her legion of young fans, yet there’s lyrical substance wrapped in the buoyant melody that shows Swift has the goods to go the distance and continue to broaden her audience.

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Taylor’s new single ‘Mine’ has been released! You can listen to it below. Enjoy!

Unfortunately Taylor couldn’t attend the Teen Choice Awards because she is performing in Japan, but she sent her acceptance speech to the audience for voting for her and helping her win FOUR awards (Best Female Breakout star: Valentine’s Day, Best Female Country Music Artist, Best Country Cong: Fifteen and Country Album: Fearless). Here is her acceptance speech. Enjoy!

Rushed to iTunes Wednesday (Aug. 4), “Mine,” the first single from Swift’s forthcoming album “Speak Now,” registered 321 plays on 134 pop and country stations in its first day of availability, according to Nielsen BDS. The spins translated to an audience of 3.1 million listeners.

Country KFRG (K-FROG)/Riverside, Calif. led all stations with 10 plays Wednesday. KHOP (@95-1)/Modesto, Calif. topped all pop outlets with nine first-day plays, followed at the format by KIIS (102.7)/Los Angeles with eight plays.

Second-day airplay swelled yesterday, with “Mine” logging 522 plays on 180 pop and country stations and 5.4 million audience impressions.

After two days at radio, “Mine” is already the week’s 26th-most-heard title on the Country Songs building chart and No. 44 on the all-format Radio Songs building survey. (The weekly Country Songs chart reflects airplay Monday through Sunday. Radio Songs runs on a Wednesday through Tuesday tracking week).

“We instantly got it and started playing it every hour,” says KIIS assistant program director/music director Julie Pilat of “Mine.”

“With her last album (“Fearless”), some people were surprised that we would play a country artist on a pop station. As soon as this single dropped, however, there wasn’t a question, except listeners calling in and asking, ‘When can I buy this?!’

“The passion for Taylor’s music seems as strong as ever. If all the awards and album sales last album weren’t enough, the audience reaction is proof that she’s an official pop superstar.”

Industry prognosticators estimate that “Mine” will sell approximately 350,000 first-week downloads. Swift’s best debut sales week came courtesy of “Today Was a Fairytale,” which opened this February with 325,000. She posted her highest sales frame when “Love Story” shifted 360,000 downloads in the post-Christmas week of 2008.

With its hefty out-of-the-box airplay to be combined with its projected first-week digital sales, “Mine” could manage a debut as high as in the top three on next week’s Billboard Hot 100, to be released on billboard.com next Thursday (Aug. 12).

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The CD cover for Taylor’s single “Mine” (released in only a few days!) has been released. I have posted it below with lyrics. Enjoy!

Lyrics:
You were in college working part-time, waiting tables
Left a small town, never looked back
I was a flight risk, with a fear of falling
Wondering why we’d bother with love, if it never lasts

I say can you believe it
As we’re lying on the couch
The moment I can see it
Yes, yes
I can see it now

Do you remember when we were sitting there by the water
You put your arm around me for the first time
You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine

Fast forward and we’re taking on the world together
And there’s a drawer of my things at your place
You learn my secrets and you figure out why I’m guarded
You say we’ll never make my parent’s mistakes

We got bills to pay
We got nothing figured out
When it was hard to take
Yes, yes
This is what I thought about

Do you remember when we sitting there by the water
You put your arm around me for the first time
You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine

Do you remember all the city lights on the water
You saw I started to believe for the first time
You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine

And I remember that fight til 2:30 am
You said everything was slipping out of our hands
I went out crying and you followed me out to the streets

Brace myself for the goodbye
Cos it’s all I’ve ever know
When you took me by surprise
You said I never leave you alone

You said
I remember how we felt sitting by the water
And everytime I look at you it’s like the first time
I fell in love with acareless man’s careful daughter
She is the best thing that’s ever been mine

Hold on
Make it last
Hold on
Never turn back

You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine

Yeah, do you believe it?
Gonna make it last
And I can see it
I can see it now

Sorry I haven’t updated! My computer crashed last week and it has only just come back up. Anyway, catching up with all the Taylor news, she has recieved a nomination (same nomination as last year) for the VMA Awards!

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NEW YORK (Billboard) – Fan anticipation is already building for Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now,” after the pop-country superstar revealed on Ustream that the follow-up to her multiplatinum album “Fearless” will be out October 25.

But anticipation of a different sort is building among music retail and label executives: Can “Speak Now” top U.S. debut-week sales of 1 million units? And if Swift can’t attain that now-elusive milestone, can anyone?

The last album to do so was Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter III,” which sold slightly more than 1 million units in its first week, the period ended June 15, 2008, and has sold 3.5 million units to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Since then, the closest any album has come to matching that performance was AC/DC’s “Black Ice,” which bowed with 784,000 units in the week ended October 24, 2008, and has sold a total of 2.2 million, according to SoundScan. Eminem’s “Recovery,” the sales champ of 2010 so far, debuted with 741,000 units in the week ended June 27 and has racked up total U.S. sales of 1.5 million, according to SoundScan.

Other highly anticipated albums to be released later this year include titles from Susan Boyle, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Linkin Park, Kid Rock, Norah Jones, Diddy and Lil Wayne.

In an informal survey of a dozen recording industry executives conducted by Billboard, Boyle, West and Wayne each drew votes as contenders for million-unit debut weeks. But most said they believe Swift has the best shot.

‘SHE COULD BE THE ONE’

“It feels like if anybody can do it now, she could be the one,” said Will Botwin, president/CEO of Red Light Management and ATO Records. “She has the sales base and heat from the last few albums. And with all the amazing things she has going on, she is as likely as anybody to reach a million units, especially with the efforts of Big Machine and Universal behind her.”

Executives at Swift’s label, Big Machine Records, and her distributor, Universal Music Group Distribution, couldn’t be reached for comment. But retail sources said UMGD expects to ship 1.5 million units for the album’s release date and that it’s projecting first-week sales of 750,000 units.

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It has been confirmed that Taylor will be performing at the All for the Hall fundraiser on September 23rd!

The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum’s All for the Hall fundraiser will return to Los Angeles for a second consecutive year. The event, which will take place on Thursday, September 23, at Club Nokia, will again follow a “guitar pull” format featuring performances by Country Music Hall of Fame members Emmylou Harris and Kris Kristofferson, superstar Taylor Swift, and a very special fourth chair that must remain anonymous.

The evening offers a unique opportunity to see these acclaimed singer-songwriters interact with one another as they take turns swapping songs, stories and personal recollections. The “guitar pull” is a Nashville specialty; it originated in the homes of Nashville songwriters who gathered to try out new compositions for their peers. Nashville’s most storied guitar pulls were hosted by Johnny and June Carter Cash. The hallmarks of a great guitar pull are spontaneity and camaraderie.

The Museum launched All for the Hall, its first-ever non-bricks-and-mortar fundraising campaign, in 2005. The campaign addresses the Museum’s need for long-term financial security and will provide a safety net for the institution and its work. This is the fourth year the Museum has taken its “annual giving” event on the road, hosting previous All for the Hall events in New York in 2007 and 2008 and in Los Angeles in 2009.

“This year especially, the event will provide much needed support as Nashville works to recover from the devastating impact of a once-every-500-years flood,” said Director Kyle Young. “While our exhibits and collections are all on upper floors and never in danger, flood waters did reach ‘five feet high and rising’ in our ground-floor Ford Theater.”

Last year’s event, also held at Club Nokia, featured performances by Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Dwight Yoakam and Melissa Etheridge; special guests included Chris Isaak, who also acted as host, Kara DioGuardi and Michael McDonald.

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The official site for Taylor’s upcoming album Speak Now is now up and running! You can pre-order the album from August 20th! Check out the website HERE