Taylor Swift to do free concert in 2020
Bank holding company Capital One has announced on its Instagram that singer-songwriter Taylor Swift will be headlining its 2020 Capital One JamFest on April 5 in Atlanta.
Capital One JamFest is a free concert that is held on the final day of the March Madness Music Festival, which is a free, three-day music series held starting on Friday night, continuing on Saturday night and concluding on Sunday night (including the Final Four, or two semifinal, game nights – of the Saturday’s and the Sunday’s) before the Monday night’s final game of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament (also branded as NCAA March Madness) played each spring.
Katy Perry headlined the 2019 Capital One JamFest back in April in Minneapolis.
AOL points out that Swift had announced she would do four US stadium concerts next year. One of them is going to be free would definitely come as a pleasant surprise for the world-famous singer’s fans.
Swift released her latest album (her seventh), Lover, on August 23. It sold 679,000 copies in the US in its first week, debuting atop the Billboard 200. Over three million album-equivalent units were sold worldwide within the first week of release. All 18 songs entered the Billboard Hot 100 upon the album’s release, making the singer the only female artist to have this number of simultaneous chart entries.
Collectively, the songstress has sold over 50 million albums, and 150 million singles, worldwide. She is one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
As a songwriter, Swift has received awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Association. Rolling Stone included her in its 100 Greatest Songwriters of all time in 2015.
Taylor Swift is the winner of 10 Grammy Awards, 24 American Music Awards, one Emmy and 23 Billboard Music Awards. Time magazine included her in its 100 most influential people in the world list in 2010, and then in 2015 and then again in 2019.
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