NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM announced
today that global superstar and 10-time GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift, will exclusively perform stripped
down versions of songs from the most anticipated album of the year
and participate in an intimate Q&A session with a select group
of subscribers as part of a SiriusXM Town Hall special on
Friday, August 23, the same day that
her seventh studio album Lover is released
worldwide.
SiriusXM's Town Hall with Taylor
Swift will air on Friday, August
23 at 5:00 pm ET on SiriusXM
Hits 1 (ch. 2) on SiriusXM radios, the SiriusXM app and web player.
The Town Hall will rebroadcast throughout the weekend on SiriusXM
Hits 1. Additionally the performance will be available as a
Pandora Stories, where artists connect with fans in an intimate
way, in their own words, using the power of music.
"This is now the third consecutive time Taylor Swift has visited with SiriusXM on the
same day as her new album release and we are once again thrilled to
celebrate this moment with her," said Steve
Blatter, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Music
Programming, SiriusXM. "Taylor is one of the most prolific and
popular artists of our time and we couldn't be more excited to have
her perform some of her new songs and share stories about them with
SiriusXM subscribers across North
America."
Taylor Swift will also sit down
with SiriusXM Hits 1's The Morning Mash Up – Ryan Sampson, Nicole
Ryan and Stanley T – for a one on one interview to
discuss her new album, and she will take over SiriusXM's Hits 1
for the weekend of August 24 and
25, counting down the top 45 songs in North America as well as the week's new
music.
SiriusXM Hits 1 was the first pop station in North America to play Taylor Swift dating back to June 7, 2007.
SiriusXM subscribers are able to listen to SiriusXM Hits 1 (ch.
2) on SiriusXM radios, and those with streaming access can listen
online, on-the-go with the SiriusXM mobile app and at home on a
wide variety of connected devices including smart TVs, Amazon Alexa
devices, Apple TV, PlayStation, Roku, Sonos speakers and more. Go
to www.SiriusXM.com/streaming to learn more.
For more information on Taylor
Swift, please visit www.taylorswift.com.
About SiriusXM
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products. With the recent addition of Pandora, the largest
streaming music provider in the U.S., SiriusXM reaches more than
100 million people with its audio products. For more about the new
SiriusXM, please go to: SiriusXM.com.
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