SPEAK NOW EARNS RAVE EARLY REVIEW

The New York Times calls Speak Now “the most musically diverse [album] of her career…. And it’s excellent too, possibly her best.”

“Brilliant. The stone-hearted among [the cynics] who listen to Speak Now will find it hard to complain that Swift somehow stole that Best Album Grammy for Fearless. Entirely self-penned, sans the collaborations of the previous albums, it’s an enormous breakthrough in songwriting maturity….It’ll be decades before she’s holding her peace.” – The Hollywood Reporter

“[“Dear John”] might be her masterpiece to date, or at least the most bracingly, joltingly honest song you’ve heard any major performer have the nerve to put on record in years.” – Yahoo Music

“Since the start of her major label career four years ago, Swift has proved an exemplary role model and a strong songwriter because she is able to tap into her emotions in an authentic way. She’s reached a new high watermark with ‘Mean.’” – The Beat Goes On (Inside Music with Melinda Newman)

“Taylor Swift has again achieved the near-impossible…with a third bundle of melodic, cathartic country-pop. Speak Now is another unrestrained grand-slam. 4 Stars” – Us Weekly

With this week’s release of the track “Mean,” Taylor bested her own Billboard record (which she set last week) for Most Top 10 debuts on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 in the history of the chart. The four songs from Speak Now released early as part of an iTunes rollout all reached #1 on the site’s all-genre downloads chart within hours of release, and paid song downloads from Speak Now now exceed 1.8 million.