Taylor Swift was only a teenage woman with large desires when she launched her self-titled debut album on Oct. 24, 2006.

Swift was simply 16 years previous when she scored a recording contract with Massive Machine Label Group. The proficient newcomer already displayed the songwriting means that might later see her turn out to be one in every of her technology’s most acclaimed writers in nation music and past. Swift wrote or co-wrote all 11 of the tracks on Taylor Swift, typically working with Liz Rose, with whom she would co-write many subsequent hits.

Taylor Swift scored 5 back-to-back hit singles starting with Swift’s debut single, “Tim McGraw,” which peaked at No. 6 on Billboard‘s Sizzling Nation Songs chart. “Teardrops on My Guitar” peaked at No. 2, whereas Swift’s third single, “Our Tune,” gave her her first No. 1 hit on the Sizzling Nation Songs chart. “Image to Burn” hit No. 3, and the ultimate single from the album, “Ought to’ve Mentioned No,” gave Swift her second chart-topping hit.

Taylor Swift was an infinite business success, topping Billboard‘s Prime Nation Albums chart for twenty-four non-consecutive weeks and promoting greater than 7 million copies. Swift promoted the album by touring extensively, opening exhibits in main arenas for artists together with Rascal Flatts, George Strait, Brad Paisley, Tim McGraw and Religion Hill.

Swift’s success constructed so quickly that by the point she launched her sophomore album, Fearless, in November of 2008, she had already graduated to headliner standing. She launched her Fearless Tour on April 23, 2009, with a live performance in Evansville, Ind. Swift gravitated an increasing number of towards a mix of nation and pop on her subsequent two albums earlier than in the end going fully pop with the discharge of 1989 in 2014. She has since gone on to turn out to be one of many greatest stars throughout all genres of music.