About this episode Welcome to Taylor Swift Now, your essential weekly update on everything Tay! This episode dives deep into her continued chart dominance, a well-deserved Hall of Fame win, and meticulously separates fact from fan fiction regarding new music and tour buzz. Tune in for the real scoop, delivered with the passion of a true Swiftie and the precision of a seasoned journalist.
0:00 taylor swift just logged her fourth consecutive month at number one on billboard's top movie songs chart for her toy story five track i knew it i knew you in our last episode we sorted through travis kelce gossip and album cover clues this hour we're looking at verified chart data and on the record statements here is what's confirmed0:19 the september figures show 40,500,000 streams in the united states alongside roughly 7,000 paid downloads that keeps the pixar soundtrack cut at the top spot where it sat since june when it opened with a two week run atop the hot 100 for anyone tracking whether her return to country influenced songwriting would hold past opening week the answer is0:39 sitting right on the ledger it held meanwhile this week in nashville 36 year old swift became the youngest inductee in the history of the nashville songwriters hall of fame that part is official record what took over the wire photographs was the custom laviv diamond choker she wore to accept it valued at $2,400,000 in the press room she0:59 kept the focus on her early catalog crediting the writing rooms of music row for teaching her how to genre hop across the last twenty years now let's separate verified reporting from the rumor mill for months fan communities claimed country veteran tim mcgraw performed alongside stevie nicks at swift and travis kelce's july ceremony at madison square garden mcgraw1:19 went on the record with esquire to shut that down completely he confirmed he attended as an invited guest but he stated flatly that he never took the stage his exact words were that was a rumor the internet's not always correct that settles that file the performance was claimed his denial is confirmed then there is the traffic online1:38 around a track titled cleveland with posts claiming it just crossed 50,000,000 streams on spotify while battling listener accusations of computer generated lyrics that is claimed not confirmed i will tell you the moment it is right now it traces back to unsourced aggregator posts not official platform dashboards or label releases we don't report speculation as milestone data as1:59 for new tour dates or surprise drops our sweep of official ticket registries and label filings turns up zero new taylor swift stadium shows announced for the cycle the only tour dates moving through box offices right now belong to tribute acts if someone tells you a winter arena leg just surfaced ask to see the verified box office listing2:18 that is the line between the hard numbers and the internet noise today that is the picture from here back to you in the studio
