From January 2010, she has sold over 10 million albums worldwide. In January 2010 Nielsen Soundscan listed Swift as the best selling digital artist in music history with over 28 million digital tracks sold.
At the age of 11 Swift made her first trip to Nashville in hopes of getting a record deal by distributing a demo of her singing karaoke songs. She gave a copy to every label in town, but was rejected. After Swift returned to Pennsylvania, she was asked to sing at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, where her version of the national anthem received much attention.
Swift released her debut single Tim McGraw in mid-2006 reached 6 on Billboard magazine's Hot Country Songs chart. The music video for "Tim McGraw" Swift won an award for Breakthrough Video of the Year in the 2007 CMT Music Awards.
