Platinum Parade: Lambert and Swift

Miranda Lambert’s Platinum Parade • Taylor Swift’s Record-Breaking 2010

Miranda Lambert’s Platinum Parade

Columbia Nashville’s Miranda Lambert surprised the entire staff of Sony Music Nashville when she personally delivered plaques of her Platinum Certified album Revolution while serving her signature drink, Miranda-ritas.

(L-R): James Bledsoe, Mailroom Coord.; Denise Thomas, Facilities Mgr.; Lambert and Jan Baines, Project Mgr. IS&T. Photo: Tanya Welch

Taylor Swift’s Record-Breaking 2010

Big Machine Label Group’s Taylor Swift celebrated another record-breaking year at a party staged Friday, January 28 at Nashville’s Hard Rock Cafe. BMI saluted the chart-topping success of Swift’s self-penned “Mine,” the lead single from her triple platinum album Speak Now. Nielsen SoundScan presented Taylor with a plaque commemorating the historic debut week sales of Speak Now. In its first week of release the album sold more than 1,047,000 copies, marking the best-selling debut week for a female country artist, ever. Swift is Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan’s top-selling artist of 2010 and has sold a total of more than 20 million albums and over 35 million individual song downloads.

(L-R): producer Nathan Chapman, Sony/ATV Music Publishing’s Troy Tomlinson, Taylor Swift, BMI’s Jody Williams, and Big Machine Label Group’s Scott Borchetta. Photo: Jamie Walls

(L-R): Big Machine Pres./CEO Scott Borchetta; Nielsen Ent.'s Eric Weinberg; Taylor Swift; Nielsen Ent.'s Josh Bennett; Big Machine Label Group VP Sales, Mktg. & Interactive Kelly Rich; and Producer Nathan Chapman. Photo: Jamey Walls