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Fearless
Fearless
	Standard edition cover
Studio album by Taylor Swift
Released	November 11, 2008
Recorded	c. 2007–October 2008
Studio	Blackbird; Starstruck (Nashville);
Genre	Country pop; pop rock;
Length	53:41
Label	Big Machine
Producer	Nathan Chapman; Taylor Swift;
Taylor Swift chronology
Singles from Fearless
	"Love Story"; Released: September 12, 2008; "White Horse"; Released: December 7, 2008; "You Belong with Me"; Released: April 18, 2009; "Fifteen"; Released: August 30, 2009; "Fearless"; Released: January 3, 2010;

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Fearless is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on November 11, 2008, by Big Machine Records. Written largely by Swift while she was promoting her debut studio album in 2007–2008, the album features songwriting credits from Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Colbie Caillat, and John Rich. Of the thirteen songs on the standard edition, eight were solely written by Swift. Making her debut as a record producer, she co-produced all songs with Nathan Chapman.

Fearless is a country pop record with pop crossover elements that music critics found appealing to a mainstream audience, expanding on the country sound of its predecessor. The melodies are characterized by acoustic instruments such as banjo, fiddle, and guitar. Inspired by Swift's feelings as a teenager, the lyrics explore themes of romance, heartache, and aspirations. The album title refers to what Swift described as the mutual theme of all songs, as they altogether depict her courage to embrace the challenges of love.

After the album's release, Swift embarked on the Fearless Tour, which ran from April 2009 to July 2010. Five songs were released as singles, including three US Billboard Hot 100 top-ten entries: "Love Story", "You Belong with Me", and "Fearless". In the U.S., the album spent eleven weeks atop the Billboard 200 and was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It received multi-platinum certifications in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the U.K. With 12 million copies sold worldwide, it is one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century.

Music critics complimented Swift's songwriting craftsmanship on Fearless for offering radio-friendly tunes and autobiographical narratives, though some were unimpressed by the formulaic production. The most awarded country album, Fearless won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards, the Country Music Association Awards, and the Academy of Country Music Awards. In addition to Album of the Year, Fearless won Best Country Album at the 2010 Grammy Awards. Its critical and commercial successes marked a milestone in Swift's career. Following the 2019 dispute regarding the ownership of Swift's back catalog, she released the re-recording, Fearless (Taylor's Version), in April 2021.

Background

Taylor Swift signed a publishing contract with Sony/ATV Tree Publishing in 2004 to become a songwriter, and a recording contract with Nashville-based Big Machine Records in 2005 to become a country music singer;^[1] she was the youngest Sony/ATV signee in its history.^[2] During a four-month period near the end of 2005, Swift wrote songs with other Music Row songwriters, and recorded her self-titled debut album, which was produced by Nathan Chapman.^[3] The album was the longest-charting album on the US Billboard 200 of the 2000s decade, and established Swift as one of country music's rising stars. Her success was rare for a female teenage artist, as country music had been dominated by mostly middle-aged male musicians.^[4]^[5] The album's third single, "Our Song", made Swift the youngest person to single-handedly write and sing a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.^[6]

To promote her debut album, Swift toured as the opening act for other country musicians including Rascal Flatts and George Strait during 2007–2008. While on tour, she continued to compose songs for her follow-up album on the road mostly by herself. Because Swift wanted to capture temporary moments, she would write anywhere possible, usually "at the concert venue ... a quiet place in some room at the venue, like the locker room".^[7]^[8] During some days off from touring, Swift had songwriting sessions with Liz Rose, with whom she had largely collaborated on her first album.^[8] She also wrote with musician John Rich and singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat.^[9]

Writing and production

Swift conceived the first idea for her second studio album after writing "Fearless", a song about the "best first date that [she hadn't] been on yet", while opening for Brad Paisley in mid-2007. The lyrics are about the possibilities of a first date, which symbolized her pondering her next steps after a successful debut.^[10] Her songwriting was influenced by Paisley and Sheryl Crow's approach to expressing emotions.^{[note 2]} Continuing on the romantic themes of her debut album, Swift wrote songs about her personal feelings and observations of the world around her from the perspectives of a teenage girl, and chose not to write about the luxurious lifestyle brought by her newfound fame.^[11]^[12] She did so to ensure her fans could relate to her songs, "I really try to write more about what I feel and guys and love because that's what fascinates me more than anything else – love and what it does to us and how we treat people and how they treat us. So pretty much every song on the album has a face that I associate with it."^[13]

Swift started writing usually by identifying a core emotion she wanted to convey through the melody on guitar. On other songs, she sometimes came up with the title first, and proceeded with writing the hook.^[10] While some songs were inspired by Swift's personal relationships, she said that most songs were dramatized observations rather than real-life experiences, "I've gone through breakups and the core emotions behind them, but it doesn't take much to get that sort of emotion out in a song, luckily for me."^[14] She explained that the negative emotions on her songs—disappointment, frustration, or heartbreak—came easily without her actually going through emotional turmoil.^[8] By July 2007, Swift had written as many as 75 songs.^[10] She started recording with Nathan Chapman, who had produced her debut, as soon as she completed touring with George Strait.^[15]

During the recording sessions, Swift emphasized the authenticity of the songs' emotional sentiments rather than technical rigidity, "I think it's the writer in me that's a little more obsessed with the meaning of the song than the vocal technique."^[16] By March 2008, Swift had recorded six songs, including one co-written by and featuring Colbie Caillat—"Breathe";^[8]^[17] Swift had been a fan of Caillat's music.^[18] Caillat was pleased with the collaboration, "[Swift] knows what she is doing."^[19] Apart from newly penned songs, Swift recorded a few that she had written for her debut album, believing there were stories that deserved to be put out.^[8] On the album, Swift made her debut as a record producer, co-producing all tracks with Chapman.^[20] The standard edition consists of thirteen tracks, which Swift had planned because she considered thirteen her lucky number.^[10]^[21] Of the thirteen tracks, Swift was the sole writer of eight. The remaining feature co-writing credits from Caillat, Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, and John Rich.^[22] Recording wrapped by October 2008, when Swift finished the track "Forever & Always" just before the mastering and publishing processes.^[16]^[23]

Composition

Lyrics

"Fifteen"

Coming-of-age themes are prevalent on Fearless, as demonstrated in "Fifteen", which Swift wrote during her freshman high school year. The lyrics are about realization of teenage love and heartbreak.^[24]

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As with her debut album, Fearless's prominent themes are love and life from a high school teenage girl's perspectives.^[2]^[11] While the two albums shared themes, the lyrics of Fearless examined those themes with a more nuanced and mature observation, signaling Swift's personal growth into adulthood.^[25] Swift embraced country music's narrative songwriting to convey her coming of age.^[26] The track "Fifteen", which Swift wrote during her freshman high school year in Hendersonville, Tennessee, chronicles her experiences and realizations as a high school student.^[27] In the narrative, Swift and another girl named Abigail—her real-life high school friend—go through teenage love and heartbreak together.^[25]^[28] As the song concludes, Swift realizes she could accomplish more than dating high school senior boys, and directly cautions her audience not to fall in love easily.^[24] "Fifteen" represents the autobiographical narratives with honest vulnerability that appeal to Swift's audience.^[29]^[30]

Much of Fearless is about starry-eyed romance, using imagery associated with fairy tales such as princes and kissing in the rain.^[11] The title track "Fearless" is Swift's imagination of a perfect first date, on which she dances in "her best dress" in the rain.^[31]^[32] "Love Story" was inspired by a love interest whom Swift's family and friends were not fond of.^[33] She based the song's narrative on that of the tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.^[34] Narrated from the perspective of Juliet, "Love Story" replaced the original's tragic conclusion with a happy ending.^[35] The fairy tale-flavored "Love Story" is contradicted by "White Horse", which was inspired by the same love interest.^[36] In "White Horse", Swift is disillusioned that the love interest is not her ideal Prince Charming who could treat her like a princess after his unfaithfulness.^[37] "Hey Stephen" was inspired by Swift's hidden feelings for Stephen Barker Liles of Love and Theft, a country band that opened for Swift.^[38] Heartbreak and emotional tumult are explored on songs such as "Tell Me Why", about an on-and-off relationship with an informal love interest; "You're Not Sorry", whose lyrics describe an unfaithful man; "Forever & Always", inspired by Swift's breakup with singer Joe Jonas; and "Breathe", about a devastating friendship breakup.^[39]^[40]

Other songs were inspired by romantic relationships of Swift's friends.^[36] Swift wrote "You Belong with Me" after overhearing a band member of hers speaking to his unsympathetic girlfriend through a phone call.^[41] Out of sympathy, she wrote a story line in which the protagonist harbors feelings for an out-of-reach love interest unappreciated by his girlfriend.^[42] The lyrics feature high school iconography, describing the protagonist as an ordinary girl "in sneakers", and the antagonistic girlfriend as a popular cheer captain "in high heels".^[43] On "The Way I Loved You", Swift sings about her passionate feelings for a complicated ex-lover, despite her current relationship with a decent boyfriend.^[44]^[45] Apart from romance, Fearless explores family love and aspirations in life. Swift dedicated "The Best Day" to her mother, inspired by an occasion when they went shopping together after Swift was turned down by her schoolmates.^[46]^[47] The lyrics of "Change"—the closing track of the standard edition—detail Swift's determination to succeed despite her underdog status as a singer from a small, independent record label in Nashville.^[48] She finished writing "Change" the night she won the Horizon Award at the 2007 Country Music Association Awards.^[47]

Music

"You Belong with Me"

As with the majority of the album, "You Belong with Me" features crossover elements that critics found appealing to a broad audience. Apart from the banjo-led country pop production, the instrumental features new wave-inspired electric guitar.^[49]

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Fearless is a country pop album with elements of mainstream pop, resulting in a crossover appeal to non-country audience.^[12]^[29] Music critics commented extensively on the album's mainstream appeal. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic and Hazel Cills of Pitchfork asserted that Fearless is more pop than country; the latter wrote that the only country elements on the album were Swift's "faux-country accent" and "a few bits" of banjo and fiddle here and there.^[50] Reviews from Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone and Alexis Petridis of The Guardian commented that Swift's melodic songwriting crafted a teen pop and pop rock sound suitable for mainstream consumption.^[51]^[52] For Ken Tucker of NPR, the only country aspect is Swift's personal lyrics, and the songs' melodies combine elements of country, soft rock, and folk that made her stood out among other country musicians.^[53] Tucker summed up Fearless: "[No] one is going to confuse her with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton, or even the more pop-oriented country idol of her, Shania Twain."^[53]

The Fearless tracks are characterized by instruments associated with country music such as fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and acoustic guitar, intertwined with electric guitar in the build-up.^[52]^[54] The production is consistent throughout: each song follows a formulaic verse-chorus-bridge structure, with a dramatic bridge, a stripped-down final verse, and a dramatic final chorus.^[51]^[54]^[49] Much of Fearless consists of uptempo songs with radio-friendly hooks, demonstrated through tracks such as "Fearless", "Fifteen", "Love Story", "You Belong with Me", "Tell Me Why", and "The Way I Loved You".^[51]^[55] On "You Belong with Me", in addition to a banjo-led country pop production, the instrumental incorporates new wave-inspired electric guitar.^[49] Other tracks with a more balladic production also feature memorable hooks, such as "White Horse" and "You're Not Sorry".^[37]^[55] "The Best Day" is the album's most understated track, featuring a stripped-down production accompanied by guitar strums.^[45]^[54]

Release and promotion

Packaging

Swift named the album Fearless inspired by the title track. She explained: "[Being] fearless doesn't mean you're completely unafraid and it doesn't mean that you're bulletproof. It means that you have a lot of fears, but you jump anyway."^[56] All songs on the album reflected her "fearless" attitude to embrace the hardships and challenges in love and life.^[47] Swift was the album's booklet designer; Joseph Anthony Barker, Ash Newell, and Sheryl Nields were responsible for the photography; and Leen Ann Ramey designed the cover artwork.^[22] The thirteen-track standard edition was released on November 11, 2008, by Big Machine Records.^[57] An international edition, featuring three additional tracks from Swift's debut album—"Our Song", "Teardrops on My Guitar", and "Should've Said No"—was released on March 9, 2009, by Big Machine in partnership with Universal Music Group.^[58]

Swift announced a North American reissue of Fearless, subtitled Platinum Edition, on September 10, 2009.^[59] The Platinum Edition was released on October 26, 2009, a day earlier than planned.^[60] The Platinum Edition package includes a CD and a DVD; the CD feature six additional songs—"Jump Then Fall", "Untouchable", "Forever & Always" (Piano Version), "Come in with the Rain", "SuperStar", and "The Other Side of the Door"—placed prior to the original tracks. The DVD comprised the music videos for "Change", "The Best Day", "Love Story", "White Horse", and "You Belong with Me"; behind-the-scenes videos for the latter three; behind-the-scene footage from the first concert of the Fearless Tour; and "Thug Story"—a video Swift filmed with rapper T-Pain exclusively for the 2009 CMT Music Awards.^[59] Among the six songs on the Platinum Edition, all except for "Untouchable" are original songs. "Untouchable" is a cover of American rock band Luna Halo's 2007 song. Swift rewrote the original's lyrics and arrangement on the verses, and kept the refrain as it is.^[61]

Marketing

On June 8, 2008, Swift performed songs from Fearless on Clear Channel's Stripped; the performance was recorded and included in the Platinum Edition reissue.^[62] Prior to the album's commercial release, the track "Change" was made available onto the iTunes Store on August 8 as a promotional single.^[63] It was included on the AT&T Team USA Soundtrack, a compilation of songs played during the United States' participation in the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[64] A digital campaign through the iTunes Store, called "Countdown to Fearless", featured one song released each week during the five weeks leading to the album's release.^[65] Another song, "Breathe" featuring Colbie Caillat, was released as a promotional single exclusively via Rhapsody on October 21, 2008.^[66]

Swift made many appearances on television to promote Fearless throughout late 2008. She performed on shows including The Ellen DeGeneres Show,^[67] Good Morning America,^[57] and Late Night with David Letterman.^[68] A special CMT Crossroads episode featuring Swift and English rock band Def Leppard singing each other's songs was recorded on October 6 at the Roy Acuff Theater in Nashville,^[69] and aired on CMT November 7, 2008.^[70] Her performances at awards shows included the Country Music Association Awards and the American Music Awards.^[68]

Besides live appearances, Swift used her MySpace account to promote to a young audience, sharing snippets of songs for streaming before they were released to radio, as she had done with her debut album.^[71] She continued appearing on televised events through 2009, hosting Saturday Night Live^[72] and performing at awards shows including the 51st Annual Grammy Awards,^[73] the CMT Music Awards,^[74] and the Country Music Association Awards.^[75] At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, during Swift's acceptance speech for winning Best Female Video with "You Belong with Me", rapper Kanye West interrupted, which boosted ratings and caused an incident widely reported in the media.^[76]

Five songs were released as singles. The lead single, "Love Story", peaked atop the Hot Country Songs and was the first country song to reach number one on the Mainstream Top 40, a Billboard chart monitoring pop radio in the U.S.^[77] The single peaked at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100,^[78] number two on the UK Singles Chart,^[79] and was Swift's first number-one single in Australia.^[80] Four remaining singles were "White Horse", "You Belong with Me", "Fifteen", and "Fearless". All four peaked within the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100, with "You Belong with Me" peaking at number two, the highest-charting Fearless single;^{[note 3]} and peaked within the top ten of the Hot Country Songs, with "You Belong with Me" reaching number one.^{[note 4]} "You Belong with Me", similar to "Love Story", was a crossover success.^[82] The song was the first country song to top the all-genre Radio Songs chart, driven mostly by non-country airplay.^[83]^[84]

Touring

Swift announced the Fearless Tour, her first headlining tour, in January 2009. The tour kicked off in Evansville, Indiana, on April 23, 2009, and visited the U.S. and Canada over six months. Prior to the Fearless Tour, Swift headlined three U.S. music festivals: the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, and the Florida Strawberry Festival in February and March.^[85] In October 2009, as the first North American leg wrapped, Swift announced a second North American leg beginning from March 4, 2010, in Tampa, Florida.^[86] Outside North America, the Fearless Tour also visited Australia and Japan in February 2010.^[87] The tour was met with high demand, selling out tickets within minutes.^[88] Swift wrapped up the Fearless Tour at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on June 5, 2010.^[89] It grossed over $63 million and played to over 1.1 million fans.^[90]

Commercial performance

Fearless was a commercial success in the U.S., setting many chart records and catapulting Swift to mainstream prominence beyond the Nashville country music scene.^[18]^[82] It debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart dated November 29, 2008, with first-week sales of 592,000 copies.^[91] Spending eleven non-consecutive weeks at number one, it registered the longest run atop the Billboard 200 of the 2000s decade,^[77]^[92] and the longest chart topper by a female country artist.^[93] Thirteen of the Fearless tracks (including from the Platinum Edition) peaked within the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100, setting a record for the album with the most such entries.^[94]^{[note 5]} Five tracks peaked within the top ten: the singles "Fearless", "Love Story", "You Belong with Me", the promotional single "Change", and the track "Jump then Fall".^{[note 6]}

By December 2009, Fearless sold 3.217 million copies throughout the year, becoming the best-selling album of 2009 in the U.S. This made Swift, then twenty years old, the youngest artist and the only female country artist to have a best-selling album of a calendar year.^[96] It was the only album from the 2000s decade to spend its first full year in the top ten of the Billboard 200, totaling fifty-eight weeks in the top ten, a record for a country artist.^[97]^[98] On the Top Country Albums chart, Fearless spent thirty-five weeks at number one.^[99] The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified Fearless diamond for ten million units based on sales and stream.^[100] By October 2020, the album had sold 7.21 million copies in the U.S.^[101]

Fearless marked Swift's first international chart success, peaking atop the albums charts of Canada^[102] and New Zealand.^[103] It peaked within the top five of albums charts in Australia (number two),^[104] Scotland (number four),^[105] and Norway and the U.K. (number five).^[106]^[107] The album received multi-platinum certifications in the English-speaking countries, including double platinum in Ireland and the U.K.^[108]^[109] triple platinum in New Zealand,^[110] four times platinum in Canada,^[111] and seven times platinum in Australia.^[112] In Asia, Fearless was certified gold in Japan^[113] and platinum in Singapore.^[114] As of December 2017, worldwide sales of the album stood at twelve million copies, making it one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century.^[115]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Contemporaneous reviews (published in 2008–2009)
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	73/100^[116]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[29]
Blender	^[32]
Entertainment Weekly	B^[42]
The Guardian	^[52]
MSN Music (Consumer Guide)	A−^[117]
The Observer	^[118]
Q	^[119]
Rolling Stone	^[51]
Slant Magazine	^[55]
USA Today	^[120]

Fearless received generally positive reviews from music critics.^[11] On Metacritic, which assigns an aggregated score out of 100 based on reviews in mainstream publications, the album earned a score of 73, based on fourteen reviews.^[116]

Many critics lauded Swift's songwriting craftsmanship for creating autobiographical narratives with emotional engagement.^[11] Reviews published in The Boston Globe,^[54] Blender,^[32] Entertainment Weekly,^[42] The Village Voice,^[24] and USA Today remarked that Fearless was an honest and vulnerable record that contrasted with albums produced for other teenage singers, thanks to Swift's self-penned songs.^[120] Other reviews from AllMusic,^[29] Billboard,^[30] and The Observer found the songs mature for her age.^[118] In his Consumer Guide, Robert Christgau found Fearless's idealized notion of romance distasteful, but lauded Swift's gifted songwriting skills as remarkable for a teenage artist.^[117] Slant Magazine was less enthusiastic, acknowledging the well-written songs but feeling that they fell short of refinement.^[55]

Some critics praised Fearless's crossover appeal. AllMusic and The Boston Globe remarked that Fearless straddled the perceived boundary between country and pop; the former called the album "one of the best mainstream pop albums of 2008".^[29]^[54] In Rolling Stone, Jody Rosen hailed Swift as a "songwriting savant with an intuitive gift for the verse-chorus-bridge architecture".^[51] Christgau commented that the songs were effective partly because of "the musical restraint of a strain of Nashville bigpop that avoids muscle-flexing rockism".^[117]

Other reviewers were unimpressed with the album's production; The Washington Post commended the radio-friendly tunes, but felt that the overall production was formulaic.^[49] Slant Magazine remarked that Swift was not a capable vocalist, which blemished the album with occasional breath controls and nasal tones.^[55] Reviewing Fearless for the British newspaper Guardian, Alexis Petridis felt that the praise Swift received in the American press was overblown. Petridis acknowledged her songwriting skills, but found the album "bland and uninventive", which left the audience "wondering if the world really needs any more music like this".^[52] Another British magazine, Q, summed up Fearless: "Her giggly peers will find she speaks their language, while grown-ups will prefer her to keep quiet."^[119]

Accolades

Fearless is the most awarded country music album in history.^[121] It won Album of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards^[122] and the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2009.^[123] It won Top Selling Album from the Canadian Country Music Association twice in a row, in 2009 and 2010.^[124] At the American Music Awards of 2009, Fearless won Favorite Country Album and was nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Album.^[125]^[126] Its other accolades included a Teen Choice Award for Choice Female Album,^[127] a Sirus XM Indie Awards for International Album of the Year,^[128] and a Juno Award nomination for International Album of the Year.^[129]

At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards in February 2010, Fearless won Album of the Year and Best Country Album.^[130] This made Swift, then twenty years old, the youngest artist to win Album of the Year, a record that lasted until the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards in 2020.^{[note 7]} Its single "White Horse" won two Grammy Awards in the same night, for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song.^[132]

Aftermath and legacy

Fearless's critical and commercial success established Swift as a mainstream star beyond the Nashville country music scene.^[133] While Swift identified as a country music artist, the crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me" proved her capabilities of becoming a pop star, which ultimately happened by the time she released her fifth studio album, 1989, in 2014.^[82]^[134] Jody Rosen, in a profile for New York magazine, wrote: "There is a long tradition of country carpetbaggers: musicians from points north who squeeze into cowboy boots, start dropping their g's, and make a beeline for Nashville to launch, or revitalize, their careers. [...] You could make the case that Swift traveled that well-worn path herself. In fact, she did a bait-and-switch maneuver, planting roots in loamy country soil, then pivoting to pop."^[135]

Swift's songwriting on Fearless laid the trademark of her confessional narratives on her next albums.^[136]^[137] Critic Carl Wilson writing for Slate dubbed this technique "Swiftian", which presented her as a capable songwriter and musician, breaking the industry notion that women are "far more a phenomenon of commerce than one of art".^[138] In a 2019 retrospective review for Pitchfork, Hazel Cills commented that Fearless was a testament to Swift's abilities of writing timeless songs, noting the album's simplicity and earnestness. Cills remarked that amidst other sexualized teen idols, "there was something novel about Swift being a teenager and writing about her reality in her own terms coming into that same mainstream space, redefining what 'teen pop' could sound like in the process".^[50] Other retrospective reviews noted the album's themes of universal feelings—heartbreak, frustration, first love, aspirations—made it a record that stood the test of time.^[139]^[140]^[141]

Swift began re-recording her first six studio albums, including Fearless, in November 2020.^[142] The decision came after a public dispute with talent manager Scooter Braun, who acquired the masters of Swift's first six studio albums—which Swift had been trying to buy for years—following her departure from Big Machine Records in November 2018.^[143] The re-recording of Fearless, subtitled Taylor's Version, was released on April 9, 2021, through Republic Records. The Taylor's Version feature all tracks from the Platinum Edition, the Valentine's Day soundtrack single "Today Was a Fairytale" (2010), and six unreleased "From the Vault" tracks.^[144] Following the release of Fearless (Taylor's Version), Fearless reappeared on albums charts of several European countries, reaching a new peak at number two in Austria,^[145] Germany,^[146] and Norway,^[147] and number three in Switzerland.^[148]

Track listings

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. All tracks are produced by Taylor Swift and Nathan Chapman, except where noted.

*Fearless* – Standard edition^[149]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Fearless"	Taylor Swift Liz Rose Hillary Lindsey	4:01
2.	"Fifteen"	Swift	4:54
3.	"Love Story"	Swift	3:55
4.	"Hey Stephen"	Swift	4:14
5.	"White Horse"	Swift Rose	3:54
6.	"You Belong with Me"	Swift Rose	3:51
7.	"Breathe" (featuring Colbie Caillat)	Swift Caillat	4:23
8.	"Tell Me Why"	Swift Rose	3:20
9.	"You're Not Sorry"	Swift	4:21
10.	"The Way I Loved You"	Swift John Rich	4:03
11.	"Forever & Always"	Swift	3:45
12.	"The Best Day"	Swift	4:05
13.	"Change"	Swift	4:40
Total length:			53:41

*Fearless* – Rhapsody edition (bonus track)^[150]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
14.	"Tell Me Why" (Rhapsody exclusive)	Swift Rose	3:12
Total length:			56:88

*Fearless* – International edition^[58]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
14.	"Our Song" (international mix) (Chapman)	Swift	3:21
15.	"Teardrops on My Guitar" (international mix) (Chapman)	Swift Rose	3:15
16.	"Should've Said No" (international mix) (Chapman)	Swift	4:08
Total length:			63:59

*Fearless* – Australian special edition (bonus track)^[151]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
17.	"Love Story" (US pop mix)	Swift	3:56
Total length:			64:29

*Fearless* – Digital edition (bonus track)^[152]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
17.	"Love Story" (J Stax radio mix)	Swift	3:38
Total length:			67:37

*Fearless* – Japanese edition (bonus tracks)^[153]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
17.	"Beautiful Eyes" (Robert Ellis Orrall)	Swift	2:59
18.	"Picture to Burn" (Chapman)	Swift Rose	2:57
19.	"I'm Only Me When I'm with You" (Orrall, Angelo)	Swift Robert Ellis Orrall Angelo	3:33
20.	"I Heart ?" (Orrall)	Swift	3:17
Total length:			66:19

*Fearless* – Australian iTunes Store deluxe edition (bonus tracks)^[154]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
17.	"Love Story" (US pop mix)	Swift	3:56
18.	"Umbrella" (iTunes live from SoHo)	Shawn Carter Thaddis Harrell Terius Nash Christopher Stewart	1:31
19.	"Picture to Burn" (iTunes live from SoHo)	Swift Rose	3:33
20.	"Should've Said No" (iTunes live from SoHo)	Swift	4:29
21.	"A Place in This World" (iTunes live from SoHo)	Swift Rose Robert Ellis Orrall Angelo	3:26
22.	"Video Interview Piece"		3:00
23.	"Love Story" (music video)		4:01
Total length:			58:04

*Fearless* – Platinum edition^[22]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Jump then Fall"	Swift	3:56
2.	"Untouchable"	Swift Cary Barlowe Nathan Barlowe Tommy Lee James	5:11
3.	"Forever & Always" (piano version)	Swift	4:27
4.	"Come In with the Rain"	Swift Rose	3:58
5.	"Superstar"	Swift Rose	4:21
6.	"The Other Side of the Door"	Swift	3:57
7.	"Fearless"	Swift Rose Lindsey	4:01
8.	"Fifteen"	Swift	4:54
9.	"Love Story"	Swift	3:55
10.	"Hey Stephen"	Swift	4:14
11.	"White Horse"	Swift Rose	3:54
12.	"You Belong with Me"	Swift Rose	3:51
13.	"Breathe" (featuring Colbie Caillat)	Swift Caillat	4:23
14.	"Tell Me Why"	Swift Rose	3:20
15.	"You're Not Sorry"	Swift	4:21
16.	"The Way I Loved You"	Swift Rich	4:04
17.	"Forever & Always"	Swift	3:45
18.	"The Best Day"	Swift	4:05
19.	"Change"	Swift	4:40
Total length:			79:19

*Fearless* – Platinum edition: bonus DVD^[22]
No.	Title	Director(s)	Length
1.	"Change" (music video)	Shawn Robbins	3:47
2.	"The Best Day" (music video)	Taylor Swift	4:34
3.	"Love Story" (music video)	Trey Fanjoy	3:54
4.	"White Horse" (music video)	Trey Fanjoy	4:03
5.	"You Belong with Me" (music video)	Roman White	4:37
6.	"Love Story" ("On the Set" – Behind the Scenes)		22:00
7.	"White Horse" ("On the Set" – Behind the Scenes)		22:00
8.	"You Belong with Me" ("On the Set" – Behind the Scenes)		20:45
9.	"Fearless Tour 2009 Photo Gallery"
10.	"Fearless Tour 2009 First Show Behind the Scenes!"		10:41
11.	"CMT Awards Thug Story" (featuring T-Pain)	Peter Zavadil	1:26

*Fearless* – Platinum edition: bonus DVD (Target bonus videos)^[155]
No.	Title	Length
12.	"Untouchable" (Live from Clear Channel's Stripped)	3:45
13.	"Fearless" (Live from Clear Channel's Stripped)	3:23

*Fearless* – Platinum edition: bonus DVD (Walmart bonus videos)^[156]
No.	Title	Length
12.	"Love Story" (Live from V Festival)	4:27
13.	"You Belong with Me" (Live from V Festival)	5:01

Notes:

"Untouchable" is a reworked version of Luna Halo's "Untouchable", written by Cary Barlowe, Nathan Barlowe, and Tommy Lee James.

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.^[22]

Taylor Swift – lead vocals, producer, songwriter, vocal harmony, acoustic guitar, booklet design
Nathan Chapman – producer, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, keyboard, Hammond organ, mandolin, mixing, percussion instruments, piano, programming, steel guitar, vocal harmony
Scott Borchetta – executive producer
Sammie Allan – backing vocals
Joseph Anthony Baker – photography
Steve Blackmon – mixing assistant
Drew Bollman – mixing assistant
Andrew Bowers – finger snapping
Nicholas Brown – finger snapping
Nick Buda – drums
Kenzie Butler – assistant engineer, engineer
Colbie Caillat – finger snapping, guest appearance
Jason Campbell – production coordinator
Chad Carlson – engineer, mixing, sound recording
Joseph Cassell – wardrobe stylist
Todd Cassetty – enhanced recording
Carolyn Cooper – finger snapping
Burrus Cox – finger snapping
Eric Darken – percussion instruments, vibraphone
Shawn Daughtry – mixing assistant
Dan Dugmore – steel guitar
Lauren Elcanv – finger snapping
Caitlin Evanson – vocal harmony
Kyle Ford – assistant engineer, engineer
Kyle Ginther – assistant engineer, engineer
Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar
Jed Hackett – engineer
Rob Hajacos – fiddle
Tony Harrell – Hammond organ, keyboard, piano
Amos Heller – bass guitar
Claire Indie – cello
John Keefe – drums
Tim Lauer – Hammond organ, keyboard, piano
Matt Legge – assistant engineer, engineer
Tim Marks – bass guitar
Delaney McBride – finger snapping
Emma McBride – finger snapping
Justin McIntosh – graphic design
Grant Mickelson – electric guitar
Ash Newell – photography
Justin Niebank – mixing
Sheryl Nields – photography
Mark Petaccia – assistant engineer, engineer
Lee Ann Ramey – cover art, graphic design
Sandi Spika – hair stylist, make-up artist, wardrobe stylist
Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar, mandolin
Whitney Sutton – copy coordinator
Todd Tidwell – assistant engineer, engineer, mixing assistant
Ilya Toshinsky – banjo
Lorrie Turk – make-up artist
Brady Wardlaw – hair stylist
Hank Williams – mastering
Brian David Willis – engineer
Al Wilson – percussion
Jonathan Yudkin – cello, string arrangements, string instruments

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2008–2009)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[104]	2
Australia Country (ARIA)^[157]	1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[158]	14
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[159]	52
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[160]	68
Brazilian Albums (APBD)^[161]	18
Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[102]	1
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)^[162]	23
French Albums (SNEP)^[163]	26
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[164]	12
Greek Albums (IFPI)^[165]	19
Irish Albums (IRMA)^[166]	7
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[167]	8
Mexican Albums (Top 100 Mexico)^[168]	37
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)^[169]	43
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[103]	1
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)^[106]	5
Scottish Albums (OCC)^[105]	4
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)^[170]	28
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[171]	12
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[172]	35
UK Albums (OCC)^[107]	1
UK Country Albums (OCC)^[173]	1
US Billboard 200^[174]	1
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[175]	1

Chart (2019–2021)^{[note 8]}	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[145]	2
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[146]	2
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)^[176]	2
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[148]	3
US Independent Albums (Billboard)^[177]	10

Year-end charts

Chart (2008)	Position
US Billboard 200^[178]	66
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[179]	13

Chart (2009)	Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[180]	4
Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[181]	2
European Albums (Billboard)^[182]	89
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[183]	2
UK Albums (OCC)^[184]	46
US Billboard 200^[185]	1
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[186]	1

Chart (2010)	Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[187]	17
Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[188]	14
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[189]	75
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[183]	31
UK Albums (OCC)^[190]	122
US Billboard 200^[191]	7
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[192]	2

Chart (2011)	Position
US Billboard 200^[193]	88
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[194]	42

Chart (2012)	Position
US Billboard 200^[195]	126

Chart (2013)	Position
US Catalog Albums (Billboard)^[196]	39

Chart (2017)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[197]	65

Chart (2018)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[198]	42

Chart (2019)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[199]	46

Chart (2020)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[200]	47

Decade-end charts

Chart (2000–2009)	Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[201]	87
US Billboard 200^[202]	56
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[203]	10

Chart (2010–2019)	Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[204]	55
US Billboard 200^[205]	98
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[206]	31

All-time charts

Chart (1963–2015)	Position
US Billboard 200^[207]	4
US Billboard 200 (Women)^[208]	2

Certifications and sales

Sales certifications for *Fearless*, with pure sales where available
Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)^[112]	7× Platinum	500,000^{[note 9]}
Austria (IFPI Austria)^[209]	Gold	10,000^*
Canada (Music Canada)^[111]	4× Platinum	320,000^{^}
GCC (IFPI Middle East)^[210]	Gold	3,000^*
Germany (BVMI)^[211]	Gold	100,000^‡
Ireland (IRMA)^[108]	2× Platinum	30,000^{^}
Japan (RIAJ)^[113]	Gold	100,000^{^}
New Zealand (RMNZ)^[110]	3× Platinum	45,000^{^}
Norway (IFPI Norway)^[212]	Gold	15,000^*
Singapore (RIAS)^[114]	Platinum	10,000^*
United Kingdom (BPI)^[109]	2× Platinum	600,000^‡
United States (RIAA)^[100]	Diamond	7,210,000^{[note 10]}
^* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone. ^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Notes

Footnotes

^ On the Platinum Edition cover, the background behind Swift is black, and Swift's logo is silver. The standard edition used outside North America uses an alternative cover with a different image, a glow on Swift's logo, and a smaller text on "Fearless".
^ Swift admired Crow for her "candidness, ... how she tells it like it is, but still is vulnerable". Speaking on Paisley, Swift said: "He can write something so touching it can make you cry, and then he can make you laugh so hard that you can't breathe."^[10]
^ "White Horse", "Fifteen", and "Fearless" peaked at numbers thirteen, twenty-one, and nine, respectively.^[78]
^ "White Horse", "Fifteen", and "Fearless" peaked at numbers two, seven, and ten, respectively.^[81]
^ For details about which songs peaked within the top forty, see Taylor Swift singles discography
^ This made Fearless the first album since Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. (1984) to have five top-ten hits with none reaching number one.^[95]
^ The record was surpassed when Billie Eilish won Album of the Year at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards when she was eighteen years old.^[131]
^ The chart positions listed below coincided with the release of the 2021 re-recording Fearless (Taylor's Version).
^ As of December 2017^[115]
^ As of October 2020^[101]

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v t e Taylor Swift
Albums discography Singles discography Awards and nominations Live performances Songs Videography Public image
Studio albums	Taylor Swift Fearless Speak Now Red 1989 Reputation Lover Folklore Evermore Midnights The Tortured Poets Department
Re-recorded albums	Fearless (Taylor's Version) Red (Taylor's Version) Speak Now (Taylor's Version) 1989 (Taylor's Version)
Extended plays	The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection Beautiful Eyes
Live albums	Speak Now World Tour – Live Live from Clear Channel Stripped 2008 Lover (Live from Paris) Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions
Concerts	Fearless Tour Speak Now World Tour The Red Tour The 1989 World Tour Reputation Stadium Tour City of Lover The Eras Tour
Films	Miss Americana Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions All Too Well: The Short Film The Eras Tour
Family	Austin Swift Marjorie Finlay
Impact and legacy	Cultural impact Political impact Swifties Impact of the Eras Tour Nannaria swiftae Castianeira swiftay
Controversies	2009 MTV Video Music Awards Sexual assault trial Masters dispute Ticketmaster incident Death of Ana Clara Benevides Deepfake pornography
Related	High Watch SwiftOnSecurity Olivia Benson Tree Paine Samuel Goldwyn Estate Taylor Swift Productions Ashley Leechin Taylor Sheesh
Category

v t e Billboard Year-End number one albums
1956–1975	1956: Calypso – Harry Belafonte 1957: Music from My Fair Lady – Original Cast 1958: Music from My Fair Lady – Original Cast 1959: The Music from Peter Gunn – Henry Mancini 1960: Music from The Sound of Music – Original Cast 1961: Camelot – Original Cast 1962: West Side Story – Soundtrack 1963: West Side Story – Soundtrack 1964: Music from Hello, Dolly! – Original Cast 1965: Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack – Soundtrack 1966: Whipped Cream & Other Delights – Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass 1967: More of the Monkees – The Monkees 1968: Are You Experienced – The Jimi Hendrix Experience 1969: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida – Iron Butterfly 1970: Bridge over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel 1971: Jesus Christ Superstar – Soundtrack 1972: Harvest – Neil Young 1973: The World Is a Ghetto – War 1974: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John 1975: Greatest Hits – Elton John
1976–2000	1976: Frampton Comes Alive! – Peter Frampton 1977: Rumours – Fleetwood Mac 1978: Saturday Night Fever – Soundtrack 1979: 52nd Street – Billy Joel 1980: The Wall – Pink Floyd 1981: Hi Infidelity – REO Speedwagon 1982: Asia – Asia 1983: Thriller – Michael Jackson 1984: Thriller – Michael Jackson 1985: Born in the U.S.A. – Bruce Springsteen 1986: Whitney Houston – Whitney Houston 1987: Slippery When Wet – Bon Jovi 1988: Faith – George Michael 1989: Don't Be Cruel – Bobby Brown 1990: Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 – Janet Jackson 1991: Mariah Carey – Mariah Carey 1992: Ropin' the Wind – Garth Brooks 1993: The Bodyguard – Soundtrack 1994: The Sign – Ace of Base 1995: Cracked Rear View – Hootie & the Blowfish 1996: Jagged Little Pill – Alanis Morissette 1997: Spice – Spice Girls 1998: Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture – James Horner 1999: Millennium – Backstreet Boys 2000: No Strings Attached – NSYNC
2001–present	2001: 1 – The Beatles 2002: The Eminem Show – Eminem 2003: Get Rich or Die Tryin' – 50 Cent 2004: Confessions – Usher 2005: The Massacre – 50 Cent 2006: Some Hearts – Carrie Underwood 2007: Daughtry – Daughtry 2008: As I Am – Alicia Keys 2009: Fearless – Taylor Swift 2010: I Dreamed a Dream – Susan Boyle 2011: 21 – Adele 2012: 21 – Adele 2013: The 20/20 Experience – Justin Timberlake 2014: Frozen – Soundtrack 2015: 1989 – Taylor Swift 2016: 25 – Adele 2017: Damn – Kendrick Lamar 2018: Reputation – Taylor Swift 2019: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? – Billie Eilish 2020: Hollywood's Bleeding – Post Malone 2021: Dangerous: The Double Album – Morgan Wallen 2022: Un Verano Sin Ti – Bad Bunny 2023: One Thing at a Time – Morgan Wallen

v t e CMA Album of the Year
1967−1970	There Goes My Everything – Jack Greene (1967) Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison – Johnny Cash (1968) Johnny Cash At San Quentin – Johnny Cash (1969) Okie from Muskogee – Merle Haggard and the Strangers (1970)
1971-1980	I Won't Mention It Again – Ray Price (1971) Let Me Tell You About a Song – Merle Haggard and the Strangers (1972) Behind Closed Doors – Charlie Rich (1973) A Very Special Love Song – Charlie Rich (1974) A Legend in My Time – Ronnie Milsap (1975) Wanted! The Outlaws – Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser (1976) Ronnie Milsap Live – Ronnie Milsap (1977) It Was Almost Like a Song – Ronnie Milsap (1978) The Gambler – Kenny Rogers (1979) Coal Miner's Daughter – Various artists (1980)
1981-1990	I Believe in You – Don Williams (1981) Always on My Mind – Willie Nelson (1982) The Closer You Get – Alabama (1983) A Little Good News – Anne Murray (1984) Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind – George Strait (1985) Lost in the Fifties Tonight – Ronnie Milsap (1986) Always And Forever – Randy Travis (1987) Born to Boogie – Hank Williams Jr. (1988) Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1989) Pickin' on Nashville – The Kentucky Headhunters (1990)
1991-2000	No Fences – Garth Brooks (1991) Ropin' the Wind – Garth Brooks (1992) I Still Believe in You – Vince Gill (1993) Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles – Eagles (1994) When Fallen Angels Fly – Patty Loveless (1995) Blue Clear Sky – George Strait (1996) Carrying Your Love with Me – George Strait (1997) Everywhere – Tim McGraw (1998) A Place in the Sun – Tim McGraw (1999) Fly – The Dixie Chicks (2000)
2001-2010	O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Various artists (2001) Drive – Alan Jackson (2002) American IV: The Man Comes Around – Johnny Cash (2003) When the Sun Goes Down – Kenny Chesney (2004) There's More Where That Came From – Lee Ann Womack (2005) Time Well Wasted – Brad Paisley (2006) It Just Comes Natural – George Strait (2007) Troubadour – George Strait (2008) Fearless – Taylor Swift (2009) Revolution – Miranda Lambert (2010)
2011-2020	My Kinda Party – Jason Aldean (2011) Chief – Eric Church (2012) Based on a True Story... – Blake Shelton (2013) Platinum – Miranda Lambert (2014) Traveller – Chris Stapleton (2015) Mr. Misunderstood – Eric Church (2016) From A Room: Volume 1 – Chris Stapleton (2017) Golden Hour – Kacey Musgraves (2018) Girl – Maren Morris (2019) What You See Is What You Get – Luke Combs (2020)
2021-2030	Starting Over – Chris Stapleton (2021) Growin' Up – Luke Combs (2022) Bell Bottom Country - Lainey Wilson (2023)

v t e Grammy Award for Album of the Year
1950s	The Music from Peter Gunn – Henry Mancini (1958) Come Dance with Me! – Frank Sinatra (1959)
1960s	The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart – Bob Newhart (1960) Judy at Carnegie Hall – Judy Garland (1961) The First Family – Vaughn Meader (1962) The Barbra Streisand Album – Barbra Streisand (1963) Getz/Gilberto – Stan Getz & João Gilberto (1964) September of My Years – Frank Sinatra (1965) A Man and His Music – Frank Sinatra (1966) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles (1967) By the Time I Get to Phoenix – Glen Campbell (1968) Blood, Sweat & Tears – Blood, Sweat & Tears (1969)
1970s	Bridge over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel (1970) Tapestry – Carole King (1971) The Concert for Bangladesh – George Harrison & Friends (1972) Innervisions – Stevie Wonder (1973) Fulfillingness' First Finale – Stevie Wonder (1974) Still Crazy After All These Years – Paul Simon (1975) Songs in the Key of Life – Stevie Wonder (1976) Rumours – Fleetwood Mac (1977) Saturday Night Fever – Various Artists (1978) 52nd Street – Billy Joel (1979)
1980s	Christopher Cross – Christopher Cross (1980) Double Fantasy – John Lennon & Yoko Ono (1981) Toto IV – Toto (1982) Thriller – Michael Jackson (1983) Can't Slow Down – Lionel Richie (1984) No Jacket Required – Phil Collins (1985) Graceland – Paul Simon (1986) The Joshua Tree – U2 (1987) Faith – George Michael (1988) Nick of Time – Bonnie Raitt (1989)
1990s	Back on the Block – Quincy Jones and Various Artists (1990) Unforgettable... with Love – Natalie Cole (1991) Unplugged – Eric Clapton (1992) The Bodyguard – Whitney Houston (1993) MTV Unplugged – Tony Bennett (1994) Jagged Little Pill – Alanis Morissette (1995) Falling into You – Celine Dion (1996) Time Out of Mind – Bob Dylan (1997) The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill – Lauryn Hill (1998) Supernatural – Santana (1999)
2000s	Two Against Nature – Steely Dan (2000) O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Various Artists (2001) Come Away with Me – Norah Jones (2002) Speakerboxxx/The Love Below – Outkast (2003) Genius Loves Company – Ray Charles & Various Artists (2004) How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb – U2 (2005) Taking the Long Way – Dixie Chicks (2006) River: The Joni Letters – Herbie Hancock (2007) Raising Sand – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss (2008) Fearless – Taylor Swift (2009)
2010s	The Suburbs – Arcade Fire (2010) 21 – Adele (2011) Babel – Mumford & Sons (2012) Random Access Memories – Daft Punk (2013) Morning Phase – Beck (2014) 1989 – Taylor Swift (2015) 25 – Adele (2016) 24K Magic – Bruno Mars (2017) Golden Hour – Kacey Musgraves (2018) When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? – Billie Eilish (2019)
2020s	Folklore – Taylor Swift (2020) We Are – Jon Batiste (2021) Harry's House – Harry Styles (2022) Midnights – Taylor Swift (2023)

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