2010-10-25
Speak Now
Taylor Swift
By Maeve C.
Every song on Speak Now was written by Taylor Swift alone, while she toured in 2009 and 2010, and she produced the album with Nathan Chapman. Sessions moved between Nashville studios including Blackbird and Starstruck, Capitol Studios in Hollywood and Stonehurst in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
The album entered the Billboard 200 at number one with 1,047,000 copies sold in its first week. “Mine” opens the fourteen tracks and led a run of singles that took in “Back to December”, “Mean”, “The Story of Us” and “Sparks Fly”.
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Rights-holder metadata (℗ 2010 Taylor Swift) gives release date October 25, 2010.Corroborates: Big Machine released the standard and deluxe editions on October 25, 2010; Swift wrote the album alone while touring 2009–2010; produced with Nathan Chapman; studios (Blackbird, Starstruck, Capitol, Stonehurst); singles; Billboard 200 No. 1 with 1,047,000 first-week copies; tracklist.