In addition to being 2014's probable best-selling album, Taylor Swift's 1989, out next week, could be crucial to salvaging the record industry's holiday shopping season in a terrible sales year. Week after week, the biggest music stars have put out what appeared to be blockbuster albums, selling up

Rock in Rio is touching down in the United States for the first time in 2015, with Taylor Swift, Metallica, Linkin Park and No Doubt set to take the main stage at the festival in Las Vegas over two weekends in May. While the full lineup has not yet been released, Rock in Rio also announced that

Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams aren't the only huge additions heading to The Voice this season: Taylor Swift will stop by for an episode to serve as an advisor to the hopeful contestants, Us Weekly reports. "Taylor was an absolute pleasure to work with," a source told Us of Swift's The Voice

Of all the theories about why the record industry is collapsing – piracy, iTunes, bumbling digital rights management – has anyone considered the real reason is that Taylor Swift took over? Aside from her new single, "Shake It Off," sales news remains bad: Albums are still down 15 percent, and

As expected, Taylor Swift turned the MTV Video Music Awards into her own personal dance floor to party like it's 1989. Swift capped off a busy week where she announced her "first straight-up pop" album and revealed its first single "Shake It Off" by performing the 1989 track live for the first time