Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift (2006) is the debut studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released in North America on October 24, 2006, and reissued multiple times between 2007 and 2008 by Big Machine Records.

Taylor Swift incorporates multiple country music elements, including a twang in Swift's vocals and acoustic arrangements composed of guitars, fiddles, banjos, mandolins, and dobro instruments that conjure the roots of American folk music popular in the American South.

In the United States, Taylor Swift debuted at number 19 on the Billboard 200 chart dated November 11, 2006, with first-week sales of 40,000. The album continued to sell at a fairly consistent pace, defying the typical trend of albums gradually declining in sales; it had sold one million copies by November 2007 and reached its peak at number five on the Billboard 200 chart dated January 19, 2008.