<P> "Mean" won Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards . Swift performed the song during the ceremony . Claire Suddath of Time felt she "delivered her comeback on - key and with a vengeance"; Jayme Deerwester of USA Today wrote that the criticism in 2010 seemed to have "made her a better songwriter and live performer". Swift won various other awards for Speak Now, including Songwriter / Artist of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association (2010 and 2011), Woman of the Year by Billboard (2011), and Entertainer of the Year by the Academy of Country Music (2011 and 2012) and the Country Music Association in 2011 . At the American Music Awards of 2011, Swift won Artist of the Year and Favorite Country Album . Rolling Stone placed Speak Now at number 45 in its 2012 list of the "50 Best Female Albums of All Time", writing: "She might get played on the country station, but she's one of the few genuine rock stars we've got these days, with a flawless ear for what makes a song click ." </P> <P> The Speak Now World Tour ran from February 2011 to March 2012 and grossed over $123 million . In November 2011, Swift released her first live album, Speak Now World Tour: Live . The following month, she contributed two original songs to The Hunger Games soundtrack album: "Safe & Sound", cowritten and recorded with the Civil Wars and T - Bone Burnett, and "Eyes Open". "Safe & Sound" won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media . After providing vocals for B.o.B's "Both of Us" in May 2012, Swift dated political heir Conor Kennedy from July to September 2012 . In August, Swift released "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", the lead single from her fourth studio album, Red . It became her first number one in the US and New Zealand, and reached the top slot on an iTunes chart 50 minutes after its release, earning the "Fastest Selling Single in Digital History" Guinness World Record . Swift released the album's second single, "Begin Again", in October . It reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 . Other singles released from the album include "I Knew You Were Trouble", "22", "Everything Has Changed", "The Last Time", and "Red". "I Knew You Were Trouble" was a major commercial success, peaking at number two in the United States . </P> <P> Red was released on October 22, 2012, incorporating new genres, such as heartland rock, dubstep and dance - pop . The album was a critical and commercial success, and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first - week sales of 1.21 million copies . This marked the highest opening sales in a decade, and made Swift the first female to have two million - selling album openings, a record recognized by Guinness World Records . The Red Tour ran from March 2013 to June 2014 and grossed over $150 million . Red earned several accolades, including four nominations at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards . Its single "I Knew You Were Trouble" won Best Female Video at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards . Swift was named Best Female Country Artist at the 2012 American Music Awards and Artist of the Year at the 2013 ceremony . She received the Nashville Songwriters Association's Songwriter / Artist Award for the fifth and sixth consecutive years in 2012 and 2013 respectively . Swift was also honored by the Association with a special Pinnacle Award, making her the second recipient of the accolade after Garth Brooks . </P> <P> In 2013, Swift cowrote "Sweeter Than Fiction" with Jack Antonoff for the One Chance soundtrack, and received a Best Original Song nomination at the 71st Golden Globe Awards . She provided guest vocals for a McGraw song titled "Highway Don't Care", featuring guitar work by Urban . Swift performed "As Tears Go By" with the Rolling Stones in Chicago as part of their 50 & Counting tour, and stated that the band was a major influence on her career outlook . She also joined Florida Georgia Line on stage during their set at the 2013 Country Radio Seminar to sing "Cruise". Outside music, Swift voiced Audrey, a tree lover, in the animated film The Lorax (2012), made a cameo in the sitcom New Girl (2013), and had a supporting role in the film adaptation of The Giver (2014). She dated British singer Harry Styles . </P>

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