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Letting Her Finish: Taylor Swift Completes Country's Pop-Chart Comeback

Sep 25, 2009, 4:00pm Idolator
Letting Her Finish: Taylor Swift Completes Country's Pop-Chart Comeback In his 1990s heyday, Garth Brooks refused to release even his biggest songs, from "Friends in Low Places" to "Shameless," as singles. Sure, it pumped up his album sales. And mostly, he was following the Nashville convention at the time, wherein country hits were generally released only as noncommercial 45's for jukeboxes. But Brooks was no ordinary country act; he was the bestselling '90s act of any genre, period. If anyone could have sold truckloads of singles like a pop act, it would have been him. No, Brooks eschewed them, in part, to prove a point: in [...]
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