![]() It wasn’t a subsistence farm in the rough part of Kentucky but a Christmas-tree farm in Pennsylvania. Like a lot of country singers – that’s how she first broke in – Taylor Swift grew up on a farm. Well, Taylor Swift may be a lot of things, but we’re not really sure “underdog” is one of them. By every available measure, she seems to be doing pretty well, and at 25, she’s probably just getting started with her world domination.īut to the New York Times, she is, apparently, an “underdog.” The paper of record used the term twice in its review of her show in a relatively intimate 13,000-seat arena in Louisiana and pulled it out for the headline as well: “On Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ Tour, the Underdog Emerges as Cool Kid.” Her net worth is roughly $200 million – that’s about 3,550 times the median net worth of an American household. Swift’s current tour will take her to stadiums all over the world, including Metlife Stadium in New Jersey, capacity 82,600. She became, according to Business Insider, “the first woman to have three albums sell more than 1 million copies in a single week.” The album has now sold more than 4 million – the kind of number we thought, in the age of file-sharing, we’d never hear again. ![]() On its release last year, her “1989” record became the biggest selling album in more than a decade, at a time in which record sales have been way down. She’s still on the cover of lots of magazines and we’ll probably see her there far into the future. She has accumulated no fewer than four homes (including a $3.5 million place in Beverly Hills and a $20 million Tribeca penthouse) and drawn enormous press and media attention. Over the last few years, Taylor Swift has become one of the two or three biggest pop stars in the world.
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