Love Story (song)
Love story | |
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Taylor Swift | |
publication | September 12, 2008 |
length | 3:57 |
Genre (s) | Country , pop |
Author (s) | Taylor Swift |
Producer (s) | Nathan Chapman , Taylor Swift |
Label | Big Machine Records |
album | Fearless |
Love Story is a song by the American singer Taylor Swift , which was released in September 2008 as the first single from her second album Fearless , which was released two months later .
This song (along with You Belong with Me and other songs from the album) made her a new teen idol and became her signature song .
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This song is based on a real experience in the life of Taylor Swift: As a teenager, she had an argument with her parents over a boy. They thought he was angry. But she thought it was love.
Commercial win
The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country and Adult Contemporary Charts and No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Charts (Hot 100), No. 2 in Great Britain and No. 22 in Germany.
Awards for music sales
Country / Region | Award | Sales |
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Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
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Australia (ARIA) | 7 × platinum | 490,000 |
Denmark (IFPI) | gold | 7,500 |
Canada (MC) | 2 × platinum | 160,000 |
New Zealand (RMNZ) | platinum | 15,000 |
United States (RIAA) | 8 × platinum | 5,800,000 |
United Kingdom (BPI) | platinum | 600,000 |
All in all |
1 × gold 19 × platinum |
7,072,500 |
Main article: Taylor Swift / Music Sales Awards
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Love Story by Taylor Swift . Song facts. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
- ^ Gary Trust: Ask Billboard: All-Taylor Swift Edition. In: Billboard. November 11, 2014, accessed October 3, 2017 .