Speak Now

Speak Now
Taylor Swift studio album
Publication (s)	October 22, 2010
admission	2009-2010
Label (s)	Big Machine Records
Format (s)	CD, double CD, download
Genre (s)	Country pop , pop
Title (number)	14 (standard version), 20 (deluxe version)
running time	46:42 (standard version) 1:09:36 (deluxe version)
production	Scott Borchetta Nathan Chapman Taylor Swift
chronology Fearless (2008) Speak Now Red (2012)
Single releases 4th August 2010 mine November 15, 2010 Back to December March 14, 2011 Mean April 19, 2011 The Story of Us

Speak Now is the third studio album of American country-pop - singer and songwriter Taylor Swift . The album was first released in Ireland on October 22nd and worldwide on October 25th, 2010. Swift worked on this album for two years.

promotion

Swift sang the song Innocent at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2010. The piece is about rapper Kanye West and his behavior at the same event last year . Some songs have been released as promo singles: Speak Now on October 4th, Back to December on October 11th, and Mean on October 18th, 2010.

Songs

In an interview, Swift said, “I wrote all the songs for this album myself. It wasn't on purpose. It just happened like that ”. 60% of the album was recorded in Nathan Chapman's studio and some songs were recorded with orchestral accompaniment . Of the songs, Swift said, "Every song is a confession to a person."

Standard version title list

No.	title	Songwriter	length
1.	mine	Taylor Swift	3:50
2.	Sparks Fly	Swift	4:22
3.	Back to December	Swift	4:53
4th	Speak Now	Swift	4:00
5.	Dear John	Swift	6:43
6th	Mean	Swift	3:57
7th	The Story of Us	Swift	4:27
8th.	Never grow up	Swift	4:50
9.	Enchanted	Swift	5:52
10.	Better Than Revenge	Swift	3:37
11.	Innocent	Swift	5:02
12.	Haunted	Swift	4:02
13.	Last kiss	Swift	6:07
14th	Long Live	Swift	5:17
Overall length:			67:29

Title list of the deluxe version

No.	title	length
15th	Ours	3:58
16.	If This Was a Movie	3:54
17th	Superman	4:36
18th	Back to December (Acoustic version)	4:52
19th	Haunted (Acoustic version)	3:37
20th	Mine (US version)	3:51

Chart placements

The album reached number one on the US pop and country charts, number six on the UK charts and the top 20 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The first single Mine was released on August 4, 2010. The music video was shot in Portland, Maine in early July . Swift said the song was about her tendency to "run away from love". Mine reached number three on the pop and number two country singles charts in the USA, number 30 in the UK and number 57 in Germany.

reception

CountryMusicNews.de gives the album four out of five stars: “With her third album, Taylor has more pop preferences and shows that she is already an amazingly good songwriter. With this and with some strong hits from the new work, she will continue her global triumph without any problems. "

Laut.de gives the album three out of five points: “… Sometimes sad, often happy, but always pop, happily written by the 20-year-old herself. ... What a welcome difference to some of the hot air pressed on CD by teen starlets, written by an armada of external songwriters. Even if Taylor Swift doesn't reinvent the musical wheel with her own compositions, it rolls better than expected into the ear canals. "

Plattentests.de awards four out of ten points: “... Just as beautiful and successful minutes can be found in the lonely silence of the acoustic guitar of 'Never Grow Up', in the subliminal rumbling sadness of 'Innocent' and 'Last Kiss', a six-minute, dreamy one Ode to an ex… The problem with 'Speak Now' is, however, that too many songs are curious, vulgar and rarely more than nice radio pop. It would be a mockery to use words like country or folk even remotely on blunt pieces like ' The Story of Us ', 'Mine', 'Sparks Fly' or 'Long Live'. This is the kind of calculating chart music that Swift should finally give the breakthrough in Europe ... "

Awards for music sales

Speak Now has so far been awarded 5 × gold and 12 × platinum . According to awards, the album was sold more than 6.6 million times.

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	2 × platinum	140,000
Brazil (PMB)	gold	20,000
Ireland (IRMA)	gold	7,500
Japan (RIAJ)	gold	100,000
Canada (MC)	3 × platinum	240,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	platinum	15,000
Norway (IFPI)	gold	15,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold	100,000
United States (RIAA)	6 × platinum	6,000,000
All in all	5 × gold 12 × platinum	6,637,500

Main article: Taylor Swift / Music Sales Awards

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leah Collins: Taylor Swift to release concept album . In: The Vancouver Sun . July 22, 2010. Archived from the original on July 25, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 22, 2010. 
2. ↑ Universal Music Ireland: Taylor Swift . Universal Music Ireland. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
3. ↑ New CD Release Date Announced | Countdown to Taylor Swift's new single . Speaknow13.com. Archived from the original on July 10, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 22, 2010. 
4. ↑ Christopher John: Taylor Swift Sets Release Date for New Album 'Speak Now' - Speakeasy - WSJ , Blogs.wsj.com. July 21, 2010. Retrieved July 22, 2010. 
5. ↑ Posted Jul 21st 2010 9:00 AM by Nancy Dunham Comments [1]: Taylor Swift on New Album, New Home, Favorite Fan Moments . The boat. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Daniel Kreps: Taylor Swift Announces Third Album, 'Speak Now' . In: Rolling Stone . July 21, 2010. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
7. ↑ billboard.com
8. ^ Daniel Kreps: Taylor Swift Announces Third Album, 'Speak Now' . In: Rolling Stone . July 21, 2010. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
9. ↑ billboard.com
10. ↑ Christoph Volkmer: CD review. CountryMusicNews.de