Taylor Swift Breaks Another Billboard Record

Posted by Sarah Norton on 11/03/2009
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Most Country Music fans already know that Taylor Swift is a Country superstar. But this week, The Boot reported that she has the longest charting album of this century, according to Billboard. Swift was already deemed the biggest-selling artist of any genre in 2009.

Her self-titled debut album, released in October 2006, has been on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart for 157 weeks -- more weeks than any other album, beating the record previously held by Nickelback.

Swift can also claim the Billboard record for most Top 10 debuts in a year, and she's the only solo female artist in Billboard history to have five Top 10 singles from a debut album. Additionally, she's the record-holder for the longest-charting female Country star in the Nielsen SoundScan era and the only Country artist in history to have a No. 1 song on Billboard's Nielsen BDS Hot 100 airplay chart.

Fans can catch Taylor Swift hosting Saturday Night Live this Saturday, Nov. 7. She’ll also be performing at the CMA Awards on Nov. 11, where she’s nominated for Entertainer of the Year in addition to three other awards.