VIDEO: Taylor Swift Talks New Album '1989' on GMA!

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Chart-topping singer Taylor Swift stopped by today's GOOD MORNING AMERICA on ABC to discuss her No. 1 album '1989' and her "secret sessions." Check out the appearance below!

Taylor Swift, who writes all of her own songs, is a global superstar, seven-time GRAMMY winner and the youngest winner in history of the music industry's highest honor, the GRAMMY Award forAlbum of the Year. She is the first artist since the Beatles (and the only female artist in history) to log six or more weeks at #1 with three consecutive studio albums. Taylor has an album on Rolling Stone's prestigiousThe 50 Greatest Albums of All Time(by women) list, Time magazine has named her one the of the100 Most Influential Peoplein the world, and she is Billboard's youngest-everWoman of the Year and the only artist to have been awarded this honor twice.

Taylor has career record sales in excess of 30 million albums and almost 80 million song downloads worldwide, and has had singles top both the pop and country radio charts around the globe. Taylor's album RED, released almost two years ago on Big MachineRecords, has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide to date, including more than 1.2 million copies in the U.S. in its first week, scoring the highest first-week sales debut of any album in over a decade.

Taylor is the only female artist in music history (and just the fourth artist ever) to twice have an album (2010's Speak Now and2012's RED) hit the 1 million plus first-week sales figure. "Shake It Off" is the first single off her fifth studio album1989(Big MachineRecords), which will be released onOctober 27, 2014. The single has topped Billboard's Pop, HotAC and Hot 100 charts and has already earned double Platinum-status by the RIAA for exceeding sales of two million downloads.

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