
More recently in January, Taylor’s hit song “Today Was a Fairytale” went Platinum, selling more than one million downloads. In 2009 Swift earned her first two multi-Platinum single awards for “Our Song” and “Love Story,” the latter of which remains her best selling single ever – at 4x multi-Platinum – to commemorate more than four million paid downloads. No stranger to Gold and Platinum recognition, the Big Machine Records’ musical icon earned her inaugural Gold single award for “Tim McGraw” in 2007 and her first Platinum nod for “Teardrops on My Guitar” in 2008. We congratulate her on this unprecedented career milestone.” She continues to wow audiences with high-powered performances that showcase her award-winning musical skills. “She is a great example of what it takes to make it in today’s music business – talent, brains, persistence, personality – all coupled with her signature grace that wins her fans the world over. “We are thrilled to present Taylor with this award celebrating her stunning success in the digital space,” said Bainwol. RIAA Chairman & CEO Mitch Bainwol will present Swift with the award at tonight’s sold-out concert at the Verizon Center, featuring special guests Kellie Pickler and Gloriana. WASHINGTON - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) tonight will award Taylor Swift a special Gold and Platinum plaque, recognizing her unparalleled status as the best-selling solo artist of digital singles in American history with 16.5 million downloads sold. Maybe they've just hit their stride.RIAA To Present Taylor Swift With Top Ranking Digital Sales Award Vocalist Thomas Mars, more bright-eyed and youthful than ever, also sounds more a part of these songs, rather than coming across as a protruding element that clashes against the instruments. 2." Beyond containing the band's best, most efficient songwriting, the album also stands apart from the first three studio albums by projecting a cool punch that is unforced.

1" of "Love Like a Sunset," which serves the same purpose as the extended instrumental passages on Roxy Music's Avalon, at least until its rousing conclusion and shift into "Pt.

There is plenty to like beyond that point, including "Lasso," which niftily alternates between a tangled rhythm and tight-spiral riffing, and the labyrinthine "Pt. The two opening songs, the bopping "Lisztomania" and the buzzing "1901," are so immediate and prone to habitual play that the remainder of the album is bound to be neglected. Realigned with Philippe Zdar, the half of Cassius who mixed United, Phoenix make adjustments on the polarizing characteristics of their second and third albums - the pokey and occasionally listless Alphabetical, the jagged and tune-deficient It's Never Been Like That - with some of the most direct and enjoyable songs they've made to date.
