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| Subject: Billboard Just Loves Taylor Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:49 pm | |
| Taylor Swift has yet another achievement she can call “Mine.” She was named the top country artist of 2011 by Billboard magazine on Friday (Dec. 9).
In addition, Swift’s album, Speak Now, ranked second on the industry publication’s year-end Top 200 list for album sales, just behind Adele’s 21. Swift placed eighth on the all-genre Top 100 artists list.
The 10 top-selling country albums are: Swift’s Speak Now, Aldean’s My Kinda Party, Rascal Flatts’ Nothing Like This, Lady Antebellum’s Need You Now, the Zac Brown Band’s You Get What You Give, Lady Antebellum’s Own the Night, The Band Perry’s self-titled debut, Sugarland’s The Incredible Machine, Keith Urban’s Get Closer and Chesney’s Hemingway’s Whiskey.
The Speak Now Tour was also ranked #5 in Top 25 tours of 2011
Total Gross: $97,368,416 Number of Shows: 89 Number of Sell-Outs: 87
Total Attendance: 1,356,720
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