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Last month, it was announced that CosmoGirl was folding. And what better way to close out its ending December/January double issue than with Taylor Swift as its cover girl!

The 18-year-old country cutie, who picked up Favorite Female Country Artist at the AMAs last night, is featured on the cover and in an accompanying five-page spread, where she is lauded with the lead position in the magazine’s annual Born To Lead honors section. Taylor was photographed for the feature in New York’s Central Park.

Check out the full photo spread at JJJ.

Taylor Swift: Insider Special Edition, a special episode of CMT Insider, premieres this Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, at 10AM ET. She will join Jay Leno on The Tonight Show on December 5th for a performance and interview.

Taylor Swift runs through her secret performance onstage during the 2008 American Music Awards rehearsals held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Friday in Los Angeles.

The 18-year-old country cutie recently told CMT that she reads JustJared.com to “see what’s going on with celebrities. I like to have things to talk about. It’s not like you can just make movies and sing songs and people aren’t going to want to know who you’re dating and where you’re eating. I’m curious about that too. I’ll admit that.”

She also mentions that she doesn’t pay attention to the haters: “I just try to ignore the ‘I hate her, she’s ugly’ ones. When people can be anonymous, they’re vicious and it’s like sixth grade stuff like on crack. It’s terrible.”

Below is a video Taylor just made, showing some of the highlights from the release week of her #1 album in the country, Fearless. Celebrities that hold up the #1 sign in support of Taylor: Kid Rock, Kellie Pickler, Miley Cyrus, Hilary Duff, Snoop Doff, Nelly, Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy, Ludacris, Diddy, Kenny Chesney, Vanessa Minnillo and Reba McEntire.

#1 with a bullet.

Taylor Swift just broke a new record with “White Horse,” a track from her new album Fearless that was featured on the season premiere of Grey’s Anatomy.

The soulful song will debut at #13 on Billboard’s all-genre Hot 100 singles chart this week, giving the 18-year-old country cutie her 6th Top 20 debut of 2008. This breaks the all-time Billlboard record for the number of Top 20 debuts in a calendar year by any artist.

The previous record with five Top 20 Debuts this year was held by her ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas’s pop-rock group, The Jonas Brothers.

Taylor’s other five songs that made the Top 20 include “Change”, “Fearless”, “You’re Not Sorry”, “You Belong With Me” and “Love Story”.

Fearless also sold 592,304 units in its first week of sales (her last album sold 3.5 million). Comparatively, the JoBros sold over 525,000 units of their latest album, A Little Bit Longer (their last album sold 1.5 million).

Country superstar Taylor Swift has the #1 album in America, ya’ll!!!

The 18-year-old singer/songwriter’s sophomore effort, Fearless, sold 592,000 copies in the last week, the largest opening U.S. sales week in 2008 by a female artist and the fourth biggest overall, behind Lil Wayne, AC/DC and Coldplay.

Universal Music Group, the world’s biggest music company, also just has signed an international marketing and distribution deal with Taylor’s label Big Machine Records.

“She is by some distance the biggest breakthrough for an American artist in America over the last year,” executive vice president of Universal Music Group International Max Hole tells Reuters. “I don’t really see her as a country artist. If you listen to the records and see her play live, she has much more in common with acts like Avril Lavigne and Miley Cyrus.”

Congrats, Taylor!!! You’re #1!!!

Several JJ readers sent in photos last night and wrote in to talk about Taylor Swift hanging out with Intern Adam at Wal-Mart in Hendersonville, Tenn.

(This is the same Intern Adam that was fired for leaking the recent Britney Spears Womanizer single and then subsequently rehired.)

Check out Adam’s thoughts on Taylor on his blog, Internadam.com!

The pair walked side-by-side to a rack of CDs, which prominently displayed her new album, Fearless (in stores today).

According to spywitnesses, there was plenty of laughs, smiles, stares, giggles and hugs. “There was lots of tumblings throughout the crowd about the new guy,” one onlooker said.

Check out the video footage at YouTube.com.

Several JJ readers sent in photos last night and wrote in to talk about Taylor Swift with a new mystery man at Wal-Mart in Hendersonville, Tenn.

The pair walked side-by-side to a rack of CDs, which prominently displayed her new album, Fearless (in stores today). V

According to spywitnesses, there was plenty of laughs, smiles, stares, giggles and hugs. “There was lots of tumblings throughout the crowd about the new guy,” one onlooker said.

Check out the video footage at YouTube.com.

Does the new guy’s hair remind you of Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, Joe Jonas???

Taylor Swift recently talked to Just Jared about everything from her best friend in the business to the last three ring tones on her cell phone. Here’s a sampling:

Your album Fearless (IN STORES TODAY) consists of mostly songs about guys. Do you prefer writing love songs or break up songs? I really like to write songs about relationships. I like to write about boys and I love to write about every aspect of love. I think that it’s really fascinating to me how many angles there are to a breakup. There are so many different things you can write about one breakup. So right now, that’s my favorite thing to write about. But also when you’re falling in love with someone, when you’ve just gone on the best date ever and you write a song about it. I think capturing that moment in time is really important and really fun. I am just fascinated by the whole relationship thing and that’s my favorite thing to write songs about.

Check out the video interview below! The transcript is inside…

A solo Taylor Swift leaves her downtown NYC hotel en route to the David Letterman show on Monday afternoon.

The 18-year-old country crooner stopped outside to snaps a few pictures of the waiting paparazzi. Loving the fancy leggings and Louboutin boots!

Don’t miss Taylor on The Late With with David Letterman tonight. Other guests include media proprietor and philanthropist Ted Turner and chef Jamie Oliver.

Her album, Fearless, is out in stores tonight at midnight!

Taylor Swift confirms she was dumped by Joe Jonas over the phone in a record 27-second call in October.

Ellen DeGeneres says on her talk show (airing Nov. 11), “He broke up with you on the phone? That’s not right.”

Taylor responds; “It’s all right - I’m cool. You know what, it’s like, when I find that person that is right for me, he’ll be wonderful When I look at that person, I’m not even going to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 27 seconds when I was 18.”

Ellen was shocked by Taylor’s honesty, saying, “No, you did not. Aw, snap!”

Taylor continued, “I’m sorry. I had to. [The split] was, like, a record, I think, for how quick. I looked at the call log - it was like 27 seconds. That’s got to be a record.”

When Ellen asks Taylor if she’d date Joe’s brothers, Kevin or Nick, she said, “Oh my gosh! Probably not!”

Taylor also took to her MySpace Celebrity page to dispel pregnancy hearsay: “I read a very creative rumor this morning saying I’m pregnant, which is the most IMPOSSIBLE thing on the planet. Take my word for it. Impossible.”

Country superstar Taylor Swift was interviewed on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS FM radio show on Tuesday morning. (Earlier this morning, she warned girls to stay away from ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas in her latest video blog.)

The 18-year-old songstress tells Ryan about what she did on election day, how she loves talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, admits that she was dating Joe Jonas and how the breakup affected her: “I’ve written about [the breakup] and I write about my life…that’s just how I deal with things. It’s tough and it’s been tough.”

Taylor will appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on November 11th, the same day her new album Fearless hits stores.

Taylor Swift is the latest star to don the Milk Mustache in a Got Milk? ad for the Body By Milk ad campaign. Here’s what the 18-year-old country superstar had to say:

Swift Pick. In this business, you’ve got to be decisive. So I choose milk. Some studies suggest that teens who choose milk instead of sugary drinks tend to be leaner and the protein helps build muscle. So eat right, exercise and drink 3 glasses of lowfat or fat free milk a day. Music to my ears.

You can log on to BodyByMilk.com and upload a video of yourself interviewing the country super star. Taylor will respond personally to ten people and one lucky fan will even win her autographed acoustic guitar.

Newly single Taylor Swift glitters in a gold mini and black cowboy boots as she headlines the 18th Annual Chicago Country Music Festival at the Soldier Field Parkland in Chicago, Illinois on Sunday.

Thousands of country music fans flocked to the festival to watch the 18-year-old teen superstar perform. Girlfriend doesn’t look a tad bit heartbroken, too! Taylor put up a strong front after reportedly being dumped by Joe Jonas, 19, over the phone in early October.

Team Taylor!

Country crooner Taylor Swift helps MySpace CEO and Co-founder Chris DeWolfe kick off the launch of MySpace Music at NBC’S Today Show on Friday.

The pair discussed the joint venture between music labels and MySpace Music, which hosts new features for both users and artists including audio and video content, mp3-purchase possibilities, and user and artist playlists as well as provide monetization opportunities for its active music community.

Taylor, 18, has also been announced as one of the performers for this year’s CMA Awards, which will air live from Nashville, Tenn., on Nov. 12.

Teen country music sensation Taylor Swift has a new music video out for “Love Story”, the first official single off her sophomore studio album, Fearless.

Here’s the “Love Story” chorus you can sing along with:

Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone
I’ll be waiting, all there’s left to do is run
You be the prince and I’ll be the princess
It’s a love story, baby, just say yes

WHAT DO YOU THINK of Taylor Swift’s new fairy tale-esque music video?

Country singer Taylor Swift arrives in a dress by Kaufman Franco and shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards at Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles on Sunday.

English comedian Russell Brand will host the event while Britney Spears will be opening up the night. Kaba Modern and Fanny Pak of America’s Best Dance Crew will battle to determine who will present the Best Dancing in a Video award.

Kevin Jonas and Taylor Swift film a segment together for the Jonas Brothers 3-D concert movie in Columbus Circle, New York City on Thursday.

The 18-year-old country singer has been burnin’ up the charts as her latest single “Should’ve Said No” reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. Taylor’s song knocked off Sugarland’s “All I Want to Do” from the top position.

The country star is also a download diva, topping iTunes sales this week with “Change” - which was recently chosen to be on the AT&T Team USA Soundtrack.