Reuters — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Taylor Swift's "1989," the strongest pop turn for the longtime country singer, roared to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday with the biggest opening week in a dozen years for the declining album sales indust... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Bey & Tay Beyonce was seen just kind of chillin with Jay-Z at Monday night's Nets game at Barclays Center (where Taylor Swift is not playing) (that was a heads up for Stereogum). Maybe she was thinking about how she... more info

Stereogum — Get a room, Kendrick and Tay! Last night we heard Kendrick Lamar lovingly singing Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off”, and Swift’s love of Kendrick’s “Backseat Freestyle” is well-known. The mutual admiration continued this morning on Dallas h... more info

Time — Lamar and Swift have been vocal in their support of each other — and they also genuinely dig each other's tunes more info

Perez Hilton — Holy moly. Taylor Swift is having, like, the BEST week EVER and it's not even over! Not only does everyone love 1989, because obviously, but after its first week of sales, the album is OFFICIALLY platinum! AKA she sold 1.287 million albums!!! However... more info

Time — You could be getting down to this. Sick. Bridge! more info

Time — The Tonight Show mixes Obama and Taylor Swift more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Amid the thousands of new pop, hip-hop, EDM, rock, country and R&B songs that have been uploaded and eclipsed since Taylor Swift released "1989" last week, below are a recent five for a weekday that offer a glimpse of the (non-Swiftian) here-and-now. more info

MTV.co.uk News — So T-Swizzle's having a pretty good year, what with her album blowing all the others out of the water...! more info

Perez Hilton — Taylor Swift is having a HUGE week with her hit album 1989! But it's not enough to dethrone Beyoncé! According to Forbes' annual list of the highest earning women in music, Queen Bey has once again demolished the competition! [ Related: Beyoncé Rel... more info