Taylor Swift is set to become only the second recipient of the CMA Pinnacle Award when it’s presented to the singer/songwriter on November 6, 2013 during The 47th Annual CMA Awards. Airing live on ABC at 8pm ET, the CMA’s Pinnacle Award is presented to an artist “who has achieved both national and international prominence through concert performances and record sales at levels unique in Country Music. The artist has also attained the highest degree of recognition within the broad expanse of music worldwide. The artist’s talent and presence will have a long-term positive impact on the appreciation of Country Music for generations to come.”
The only other artist to earn the honor is Garth Brooks back in 2005.
Swift’s up for six CMA Awards this year, including Entertainer of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, and Album of the Year. In addition to accepting the Pinnacle Award and maybe adding another CMA Award or two to her trophy shelf, Swift will be taking the stage to perform alongside Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, Sam Bush, Edgar Meyer, and Eric Darken.
“I can’t think of a better opportunity than ‘Country Music’s Biggest Night™’ to present an award of this magnitude to an artist of this caliber,” said CMA President of the Board Ed Hardy. “I’ve known Taylor since she was 16. She came to my office with her Mom to play her music and I was amazed. Taylor’s outstanding career epitomizes the definition of the Pinnacle Award.”
Taylor Swift’s Achievements:
– The first artist since the Beatles to log six or more weeks at No. 1 with three consecutive studio albums.
– She’s the only female artist in chart history to have two albums hit the 1 million sales mark within a week of their release.
– Red scored the highest first-week sales debut of any album in more than a decade, had the eighth largest first-week debut in chart history, and marked the second biggest week ever for a female artist.
– “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” set a new record for the biggest digital sales week ever for a song by a woman and for the second-largest sales week overall.
– Set a new worldwide iTunes record for highest ever first-week album sales, and Red reached No. 1 on iTunes and national sales charts in 50 countries, including the U.K., Canada, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Malaysia, Ireland, Argentina, New Zealand, Ireland, and Australia.
– In 2012, Time magazine named Taylor one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
– Swift is Billboard’s youngest-ever Woman of the Year.
– She’s the youngest winner in the history of the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
– Taylor Swift is the top-selling digital artist in Country Music history.
– Holds the Billboard record for the most Top 10 debuts in the history of the Hot 100 Chart, the Most Charting Songs from One Album in a Single Week, and the Longest Charting Album on the Top 200 Chart.
