Taylor Swift proves she's always full of surprises. After suddenly announcing and releasing her eighth studio album "folklore", the singer sent a surprise shipment to numerous indie record shop a bunch of signed CDs of her album.
The owner of Strictly Discs in Wisconsin, Angie Roloff, told Billboard about the surprise gift, saying, "Yesterday, I got an email from our Universal representative that we were one of the stores that had been chosen to receive thirty autographed Taylor Swift CDs. We were not permitted to talk about it until we had the CDs on hand, and then we could post socially about it so people could come and find us. And the other requirement was it has to be sold to local customers, not just ship them to people outside of our immediate area. So today has been the day of Taylor Swift frenzy, which was actually pretty fun."
Angie Roloff revealed that at press time, the signed "folklore" CDs were sold out almost sold out immediately. It was put on the shelves at 11 AM, and all thirty CDs were sold by about 11:40 AM. Just proves how popular Taylor Swift is!
Roloff went on to reveal that she has been getting a bunch of messages on Instagram, with people telling them that her phones are busy. Hundreds of people have been trying to reach their lines, with numerous Swifties calling to place an order over the phone and then driving to pick up the CD curbside.
Numerous fans have flaunted their signed CDs online, and you can see the happiness in their smiles! Would you cop a signed "folklore" CD?
Taylor Swift announced the release of her eighth studio album "folklore" less than 24 hours before it was released. It was written and recorded by Taylor Swift herself while isolating due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and features collaborations with Bon Iver, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff.
"Folklore" received critical acclaim from music critics, who praised Swift and her shift to indie-folk music, as well as her storytelling and lyric-writing abilities. The album sold two million copies within its first week, selling 1.3 million copies on its first day alone.
Taylor Swift has broken the record for the most first-day album streams by a female artist on Spotify with over 80.6 million streams. The album's lead single, "Cardigan", made Swift the first female artist to have an album and single debut at number one on both the Billboard 200 and Billboard 200.
As an artist, Taylor Swift has sold over 500 million albums and 150 million singles worldwide, making her one of the best-selling musical acts of all time. She has won ten Grammy awards, an Emmy award, broken seven Guinness World Record, and is the most-awarded act and woman at the American Music Awards with 29 wins and the Billboard Music Awards with 23 wins. She has been included in TIME Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010, 2015, and 2019, as well as Rolling's Stone 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time in 2015.
In 2016 and 2019, she was included in the Forbes Celebrity 100 and Billboard's Greatest of All Time Artists Chart in eighth place. She was named the Woman of the Decade (the 2010s) by Billboard and Artist of the Decade (2010s) by the American Music Awards.
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