"Got the radio on, my old blue jeans, and I'm wearing my heart on my sleeve," Taylor Swift sings on "A Place in This World," a self-penned coming-of-age anthem from her Platinum-selling self-titled debut album on Big Machine Records. It’s an apt description of the enthusiastic, down-to-earth young woman whose original compositions about teenage life brim with poignant honesty and an infectious spirit - and have quickly made her country music’s most successful new star. In fact, Taylor recently became the first female solo artist in country music history to write or co-write every song on a million-selling debut album.

In a genre notorious for being slow to change, Taylor is considered to be the first bonafide country star of the MySpace generation. With over 20,000,000 song streams on her MySpace page and digital singles now certified GOLD, Taylor is clearly appealing to -- and is the voice of -- a new generation of country fans.