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Moving Rocks: Moving on its own as if there's a soul in it.Sailing stones, sliding rocks, and moving rocks all refer to a geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without human or animal intervention.Humans have known this for thousand of years but nobody bothered to investigate it until a century ago. It has been falsely accredited to supernatural powers.Tracks of sliding rocks have been observed and studied in various locations, including Little Bonnie Claire Playa in Nevada, and most notably Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California, where the number and length of tracks are notable. At Racetrack Playa, these tracks have been studied since the early 1900s, yet the origins of stone movement were not confirmed and remained the subject of research for which several hypotheses existed.Based on various hypothesis, a balance of very specific conditions is thought to be needed for stones to move:a saturated yet non-flooded surfacea thin layer of clayvery strong gusts as initiating forcestrong sustained wind to keep stones goingice floesTrails differ in both direction and length. Rocks that start next to each other may travel parallel for a time, before one abruptly changes direction to the left, right, or even back to the direction from which it came. Trail length also varies – two similarly sized and shaped rocks may travel uniformly, then one could move ahead or stop in its track.Recently, in August 2014, timelapse video footage of rocks moving has been published, showing the rocks moving at low wind speeds within the flow of thin, melting sheets of ice. The scientists have thus identified the cause of the moving stones to be ice shove.Researchers observed rock movements using GPS and time-lapse photography. They witnessed and documented a rock movement on December 20, 2013 that involved more than 60 rocks, with some rocks moving up to 224 meters between December 2013 and January 2014 in multiple move events. This study contradicted earlier hypotheses of winds or thick ice floating rocks off the surface. Instead, rocks move when large ice sheets just a few millimeters thick start to melt during periods of light wind. These thin floating ice panels push rocks up to five meters per minute.Sounds like BS but true.Source: Sailing stonesAlso, there are infinite images of sailing stones on internet.

Living in China for more than two decades, I took many photos from which you can get an insight into China. The following photos ( 2013~2017) range from big cities to rural villages, from day to night, from factories to religious architectures, from daily life to special moments. The logic of the photos is mainly based on time.Hongkong. Jan 23, 2013. Disneyland.Hongkong. Jan 24, 2013. Hongkong Ocean Park.Guilin, Guangxi. Feb 5, 2013.Guilin, Guangxi. Feb 6, 2013.Guangzhou. Feb 23, 2013. Shishi Sacred Heart Cathedral:Most people who go to this church for religious reason are from Africa. There are many people from the south of Africa living in the northwest of Guangzhou.Zhongshan, Guangdong. Apr 6, 2013. My junior high school, as well as my parents and sisters’:This is a blackboard for homework.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Apr 6, 2013. This is my little town.Zhongshan, Guangdong. May 1, 2013. LRT from Zhongshan to Guangzhou.Let’s have a look at the various trains running on the ground.On the way back to Guangzhou from Chongqing. August 5, 2015. Red-covered train (红皮车) is a kind of slow train.Train to Tonghua from Shenyang, Liaoning. March 10, 2017. Green-covered train (绿皮车) is a kind of slow rain too.Anren, Chenzhou, Hunan. May 3, 2017.Okay, now back to 2013.Guangzhou. June 20, 2013. A classroom in my university.Guangzhou. Dec 25, 2013. Also a room in my university.Guangzhou. July 24, 2013. View from the classroom.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Jan 29, 2014. My grandma’s village.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Jan 29, 2014. My grandma’s house. People in the village usually stick the spring festival scrolls.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Jan 30, 2014. View from my old home. Most of people living at my little town are from other provinces. They come here for work but usually go back home for Spring Festival once a year. So the town is a bit quiet that time.This is the same street! It will flood every time when it rains hard. Every time! Pic taken on Apr 4, 2016.Just a day later on Apr 5, 2016. View from my new home at the same town.The same home, the same town. May 28, 2017.Okay, back to 2014:Guangzhou. Feb 27, 2014. There are various kinds of dormitories in my university but you cannot choose where you want to live. This one is very broken, without elevators or air conditioners ( they installed air conditioners in 2016). The old desks and chairs are just changed.Guangzhou. June 26, 2014. Spicy Sichuan food. Tasty but not good for stomach.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. August 25, 2014. Dishes cooked by my mother. These are the dishes we usually eat.Guangzhou. Sept 13, 2014. A canteen in my university. At lunch or dinner time, it is rather hard to find a seat.Guangzhou. Nov 19, 2014. Huadiwan of line 1 of Guangzhou Metro. This station is actually very special because most of the metros cannot be seen from high place. You’ll know what I mean after seeing the photos below.Guangzhou. Dec 28, 2014. Lijiao of line 3 of Guangzhou Metro. The most usual kind with screen doors and running under the ground.Guangzhou. Oct 4, 2015. Jiaokou of line 5 of Guangzhou Metro. This kind goes in the sky.Guangzhou. Nov 21, 2014. Inside the metro. Don’t ask me why there are so few people. Because I can’t even breathe when it’s crowded during rush hours, let alone take a photo!Guangzhou. June 8, 2015. How about this one?Liantang village, Guangzhou. Nov 15, 2014.Some place between Zhongshan and Guangzhou. Nov 21, 2014. Taken on a bus.Zhujiang New Town, Guangzhou. Nov 30, 2014.Lijiao, Guangzhou. Dec 4, 2014. City psoriasis. Actually I find it kind of good-looking there haha.Gangding, Guangzhou. Jan 18, 2015. A famous place to buy and repair electronic products.Zhuhai, Guangdong. Feb 22, 2015. Jintai temple (金台寺).Guangzhou. March 8, 2015. Let’s take a photo!Guangzhou. May 5, 2015. The ‘legendary’ Guangzhou railway station. It is said that the station is very dangerous with lots of thieves and robbers. I've not met one but I experienced a crazy delay of 7 hours!Pic taken on July 31, 2015. It says, delayed about 6 hours and 58 minutes (约晚点6小时58分).Guangzhou. July 2, 2015. This one is epic! It says, I won’t wash my car. I’m just waiting for the rain（哥不洗车，哥等下雨）.Zhongshan, Guangdong. July 22, 2015.Guizhou. August 1, 2015. Taken on a slow train.A meal on train. Too spicy for me but it was tasty.Unknown. August 1, 2015. A place in the southwestern of China.Chongqing. August 2, 2015.Chongqing is a mountainous city where there are many ‘layers’ in the city so GPS map of 2D is useless. The front door of a building is on the first floor and the back door is very likely to be on about the 10th floor, even though both doors are on the same horizontal line. Always very confused when taking an elevator, I’ve also lost my way quit a few times. So, Chongqing earns a title of ‘ 3D magical city (3D魔幻城)’.Chongqing. August 3, 2015.The piano stairs.Spicy food again.Shantou, Guangdong. August 8, 2015.Xiamen, Fujian. August 8, 2015. Typhoon just arrived.Guangzhou. August 30, 2015. Sun Yat-sen Library of Guangdong Province. I guess they like the books with similar colour being together.Dongguan, Guangdong. Oct 24, 2015. A cloth factory.Huangpu port, Guangzhou. Nov 28, 2015.Guangzhou. Dec 15, 2015. A 3D printing rose.Hongkong. Dec 27, 2015.Dafen, Shenzhen. Dec 28, 2015. Dafen village is famous for its commercial oil paintings. The price is low as many of the painters are actually the ‘workers’ who are hired to paint the same paintings selling well repeatedly every day at a small house. One of them told me he was made to learn painting only for a month by his boss before painting the paintings sold to others.Guangzhou. Jan 1, 2016. New year’s concert by Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at Guangdong Performing Arts Theatre.Zhongshan, Guangdong. Jan 18, 2016.The same street. May 28, 2017. Building more.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangzhou. Feb 2, 2016. Also my grandma’s village.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Feb 5, 2016.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Feb 8, 2016. A traditional food named Jiandui (煎堆).Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Feb 9, 2016.A sunset at a village named Qifenghuan.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Feb 9, 2016. Some sacrifices for spring festival. The two fish will be released to the river, Xi River.Dachong, Zhongshan. Feb 10, 2016. My sister’s hamster :DDachong, Zhongshan. Feb 12, 2016. My town is famous for mahogany industry.Guangzhou. Feb 23, 2016. Suddenly curious about eBay, though I couldn't and cannot live without Taobao and Tmall. And when I tried to create an account of eBay, wow, Droste effect! !Guangzhou. March 26, 2016. A night bus.Pingyuan, Meizhou, Guangdong. June 14, 2016. It stormed every day when I stayed there. But I really love this quiet and clean place. Also the food, haha.Guangzhou. June 23, 2016. On my graduation from South China Normal University.Haizhu District, Guangzhou. June 24, 2016. The 8th Guangzhou International Buddhist Items Fair and Incense Culture Expo.Guangzhou. July 7, 2016. A factory of facial masks.July 11, 2016. ‘You have to love something meaningless to live a meaningful life’ on a package box.Guangzhou. July 20, 2016. Ice ballet by Imperial Ice Stars of the UK in Guangzhou Opera House.Shenzhen. August 11, 2016. The headquarters of Huawei.Zhongshan, Guangdong. August 27, 2016. Pizza cooked by my mother. Before & after:Zhongshan, Guangdong. Aug 30, 2016. Dashi, one of the most crowded metro stations. In rush hours, people have to queue outside the station to get in.Guangzhou. Sept 11, 2016. A meeting for the 4th international photography biennial of Guangzhou.Guangzhou. Sept 11, 2016. Sean Scully’s artworks exhibited at Guangdong Museum of Art.Dachong, Zhongshan. Sep 15, 2016.Guangzhou. Oct 21, 2016.Zhongshan. Oct 29, 2016. Birthday celebration.Shenzhen. Nov 5, 2016.Huizhou, Guangdong. Nov 5, 2016.Huizhou, Guangdong. Nov 6, 2016.Pati, Haizhu, Guangzhou. Nov 20, 2016. A place full of bars and cafes.Nov 21, 2016. This is the back cover of a collection of Yingchun Zhu’s modern poems, The Designing Wordsmith (朱赢椿《设计诗》). Just like the style of his poems, the prices are quite humourous and poetic, listed in various currencies: 3.69 UK dollars; 4.22 Euro; 4.67 Swiss franc; 5.63 AU dollars; 5.83 Canadian dollars; 6.06 US dollars; 36.42 Egyptian pound; 43.24 ZAR… 127360.28 VND.Guangzhou. Dec 3, 2016. A new book launch at a book shop named Fangsuo (方所).Shenzhen. Dec 4, 2016. The headquarters of Tencent.Guangzhou. Dec 27, 2016. A shopping mall.Macau. Feb 2, 2017.Guangzhou. Feb 10, 2017. Milk is on the top of tea.Guangzhou. Feb 18, 2017. A movie cinema in Yuexiu District.Guangzhou. Feb 22, 2017. A supermarket in Baiyun District.Guangzhou. Feb 26, 2017. Inside the Guangdong Provincial Museum at Zhujiang New Town.Guangzhou. Feb 28, 2017. At a halal restaurant. This kind of halal restaurant is usually named ‘Lanzhou beef lamian restaurant’. Besides noodles, they serve rice too. In fact, the lamian restaurants are so popular that you can find them even at a small town.This is the menu. Taken on May 19, 2017.Have dinner there again haha.Panyu District, Guangzhou. March 1, 2017.This photo was also taken in Panyu District on Feb 28, 2016.Zhongshan, Guangdong. March 5, 2017. Building asphalt roads.Ningbo, Zhejiang. March 10, 2017.Yantai, Shandong. March 10, 2017.March 10, 2017. Failed to see the location. Just some place above the northeast.Shenyang, Liaoning. March 10, 2017.On the way to Tonghua, Jilin by slow train. March 11, 2017. Sunrise above the snowy field.Ji’an, Tonghua, Jilin. March 11, 2017.Ji’an, Tonghua, Jilin. March 13, 2017. The river is Yalu. And the hills over there belong to North Korea. The local of Ji’an told me that Chinese ( from mainland China) can go sightseeing in NK without passport or visa but you have to stay there for more than one day, while mobile and camera are not allowed to be carried with you. Actually I felt very surprised by the convenience of Chinese visiting NK. I don't think that's good news lol.Benxi, Liaoning. March 14, 2017.That's ginseng field.And the cuisines in the northeast of China are soooo amazing!Panyu, Guangzhou. March 26, 2017.Guangzhou. March 29, 2017. A fire station.The same fire station. This was taken on May 27, 2017.Kashgar, Xinjiang. Apr 7, 2017. This pic was sent by my Uyghur friend, Abdu, to me. Not taken by me. Not sure if he likes being seen, I put an A there.He sent me this pic too, taken in his hometown Ili, Xinjiang.No matter what religion they believe in, all the students of universities of Urumqi, Xinjiang cannot pray in university. If found, he will have troubles but things are different in different areas of Xinjiang. I asked him whether they felt angry about the restriction but he said no. Besides, some names actually cannot be used yet he himself doesn't know why either.This is his notebook. He can speak Uyghur, Mandarin and a little Turkish. Three of his roommates are Han and the other two are from Kashgar and from Hotan respectively. He teaches his Han roommates Uyghur and I learn a little Uyghur from him too.Jiedong, Jieyang, Guangdong. Apr 14–15, 2017.Tea fields.Tea processing.A grumpy cat!Shanwei, Guangdong. Apr 16, 2017.Guangzhou. Apr 25, 2017. ‘My mummy won't worry any more that I don't have a seat lol (妈妈再也不用担心我没座位了哈哈哈）’. He carried his own chair to take a metro. Maybe he bought it just now.Anren, Chenzhou, Hunan. May 3, 2017. Anren is a national-level poor county (国家级贫困县).An abandoned house.Anren, Chenzhou, Hunan. May 6, 2017. A temple for Shennong.So many languages on the board at this small town where lots of old people even cannot speak Mandarin. I bought a bottle of water from an elder vendor with the help of a seemingly younger vendor over the street.There are some China’s flags hung with the religious flags.Anren, Chenzhou, Hunan. May 7, 2017. Nature time.Anren , Chenzhou, Hunan. May 7, 2017. A train station! The population of this small town is so low that even on Sunday it is still so empty.Panyu, Guangzhou. May 16, 2017. Recently I often go for a walk along the river bank after dinner. People jog, dance, fish or walk a dog here.Huangpu, Guangzhou. May 17, 2017. The advertisement at a bus stop is being changed.Guangzhou. May 17, 2017. A metro station. Almost everything can be paid through Wechat and Alipay by mobile. I don't really remember when I withdrew money from ATM last time. Half a year ago?Shenzhen. May 18, 2017. China Smart Home Expo and IC Expo.On the sea.Compared with Guangzhou and Hongkong, Shenzhen is kind of a new-built city full of dazzling skyscrapers and green trees where most of the people are young and open minded from different parts of China and even the world struggling for their dreams so that you can blend into this city as a member of it immediately without facing much discrimination. Meanwhile, it gives me a feeling of ‘floating in the air’ as the city lacks a ‘root’ like duckweed. Tourists may barely find its unique historical architectures travelling through the most parts of the city so that what they remember is usually new skyscrapers and busy traffic.Building modern architectures does not ruin a culture, but the old classical ones should be protected. Building a skyscraper is easy, but creating a civilisation is not. Shenzhen can be such an excellent city not depending on its tall buildings but on the people, on the location.Now China is developing too rapidly, building this and that, here and there. Several years ago when I studied in university and went home once a month, I got lost at my hometown! On a new street only about 2~3 km away from my home. The bus had changed its route. The buildings looked both familiar and strange. I even asked the way! After I told that incident to my parents, they felt surprised, amused and a bit angry while my father said: ‘laugh die people (笑死人, extremely laughable)! Nobody will believe it if I tell them!’. Many eastern towns get addicted to new skyscrapers and wide roads but fail to preserve its unique place so different towns look similar (actually the central government has realised that problem and put forward some policies about 特色文化小镇). It does enhance the living standard of people but that may make the people from the certain place confuse who they themselves really are. Especially now the level of globalisation is so high and also it seems globalisation is a kind of westernisation (now I realise modernisation doesn't mean westernisation). I’m afraid I will feel very confused about my identity as I’ve not studied my culture deeply but got exposed to western culture too much. To balance that, I’ve been trying learning more about my own culture and other different cultures. It sounds a bit ridiculous but it’s true. BTW, till now, I’ve not been abroad. Hopefully I will go sightseeing abroad this year to feel more various cultures in person and also see how brainwashed I am LOL.Guangzhou. May 20, 2017. Higher Education Mega Center South metro station. 8:10 AM on Saturday.Panyu, Guangzhou. May 21, 2017. Tear down and rebuild.Panyu, Guangzhou. May 22, 2017. After a Sunday.Guangzhou. May 24, 2017. I feel safe, warm and happy in China.May 27, 2017. I bought the books online in the afternoon of May 25 and got the package today. Actually at some other online shopping websites, if you buy in the morning, you will get in the afternoon.Guangzhou. June 2, 2017. The oldest operating pharmaceutical factory in the world.It build its own museum near the factory. Now the factory mainly produces traditional Chinese medicine.Guangzhou. June 4, 2017. Xinguang bridge.Guangzhou. June 4, 2017. Bachelor’s degree show of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.Guangzhou. June 5, 2017.Sharing bikes. There are Mobike, Ofo, Xiaoming, Bluegogo and many other competitors. You can find a bike by GPS of app and park the bike wherever you like.Guangzhou. June 6, 2017.Guangzhou-Zhongshan. June 24, 2017.Zhongshan. June 24, 2017. At night.Zhongshan. June 25, 2017. Day time.Huangpu, Guangzhou. June 28, 2017.Zhongshan. July 9, 2017. Went back home to see a doctor.Infusion is very common here. People say it'll do harm to health. I don't know. Yet I prefer to take that rather than have a painful fever over and over again and cough for a month.Yuexiu, Guangzhou. July 15, 2017. A shop for haute couture.Anren, Hunan. July 18, 2017. Arrived at this poor county for work again.Anren, Hunan. July 19, 2017.More buildings.Anren, Hunan. July 20, 2017.Conghua, Guangzhou. July 29, 2017.There's a town named Hot Spring Town (温泉镇) in Conghua. Yes, well-known for hot springs, attracting lots of people here for vacation.Day & night:Zhongshan. August 26, 2017. Cantonese morning tea.Taken at balcony from dusk to dark.Zhongshan. August 28, 2017. Zhongshan North Station.Huizhou. Sep 19, 2017.That teapot is 360k yuan.Changzhou island, Guangzhou. Sep 25, 2017.Pazhou, Guangzhou. Dec 28, 2017. Medicine trade fair.Hezhou, Guangxi. Dec 7, 2017.Guiyang, Guizhou. Dec 7, 2017. Guiyang North railway station.Guizhou is one of the most underdeveloped provinces in China. Before visiting it, I thought it was impossible to see so many modern buildings and most people were living at huts on hills. Apparently, I was wrong.Sour and spicy.Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (黔南布依族苗族自治州), Guizhou. Dec 8, 2017.It says:‘Take targeted measures to help people lift themselves out of poverty (精准扶贫); uproot the poverty (拔穷根); build well-off society in every place (同步小康); compose a new piece of music (谱新曲)’.Huishui, Qiannan, Guizhou. Dec 8, 2017.Rice processing machine.Huishui, Qiannan, Guizhou. Dec 9, 2017.‘Fire is disab!ed’Guiyang, Guizhou. Dec 9, 2017.Qiannan, Guizhou. Dec 9, 2017.Huangshan, Anhui. Dec 26, 2017.Fuzhou, Fujian. Dec 28, 2017.Zhanqian Road, Guangzhou. Dec 30, 2017.A road full of cargo delivery companies of the destination to the countries using Cyrillic alphabet.On that road, there's an amazing Caucasian restaurant, though the menu is a bit funny because mistakes can be found in Chinese, English and Russian names. Later it turns out the boss is Georgian.‘Ciknstraqanov’…Thanks for reading the long answer! I have more photos of various topics actually but now feel too tired to upload. Maybe I will upload again, if you think I should.I've been uploading more photos I took with my phone in China. Both old and new. Thanks!

The simple answer to this question is NO .The people who think that either live under a rock or are blind enough to notice the points i’m gonna write so read carefully and you can google it to check if i’m wrong.Taylor Swift is the youngest female singer and songwriter in the history to win 4 grammys for an album as a solo artist. Taylor Swift is the most awarded country artist in the history.Fearless is the most awarded album in the history of country music, winning Album of the Year at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, American Music Awards of 2009, Country Music Association, and Academy of Country Music Awards.Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" is the first album by any artist ,to have all its songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100, also giving Swift the record for most entries off of one album .Swift is the first artist since Beatles to have four consecutive albums (Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989) log six or more weeks at #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Chart.Taylor Swift is the first and only singer in the history to release three albums (Speak Now, Red, & 1989) that sold more than one million copies in their debut week.Taylor Swift is the second woman in history to have more than one album log more than 10 weeks at no. 1 in Billboard 200 chart (Fearless & 1989). In total, only seven acts have gained this: Whitney Houston (with three), Taylor Swift (with two), The Beatles (with four), The Kingston Trio (with three), Henry Mancini (with two), The Monkees (with two) and Elvis Presley (with three).1989 is the only album to have 5 singles reach #1 on US iTunes. Also, it is the only album since Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" to have 5 singles reach top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously.On October 2015, Taylor Swift tied Katy Perry's record for accumulating 5 singles atop the Adult Pop Songs chart by a single album, making 1989 the second album to do so.1989 is just the second album in the Pop Songs chart's 23-year history to yield at least five No. 1s, and the first such set churned out a record six: Katy Perry's Teenage Dream.Taylor Swift's 1989 album celebrates a full first year in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart, making it just the fifth album to spend its first 52 weeks of release in the top 10.Taylor Swift is the only act to have earned more than one album (Red, 1989) with 50+ weeks in the top 10 of Billboard 200 chart.Taylor Swift received a diamond certification in Australia for her album 1989, making her the first female artist and second artist after Ed Sheeran to do so.Rolling Stones named "Speak Now" as the Best Album of 2010.Taylor Swift owns the most awarded country and pop album (Fearless, 1989) in history.On May 21, 2015, Taylor Swift's Bad Blood music video broke Vevo's 24-hour viewing record by accumulating 20.1 million views in its first day of release, beating the 19.6 million 24-hour record previously held by Nicki Minaj for the music video of her song Anaconda in 2014. It was later on broke by Adele's Hello music video which garnered more than 23 million views in its first day.On July 3, 2015, Taylor Swift's Blank Space became the 1st solo artist and solo female artist music video to reach 1 billion views on Vevo. She is the 2nd female artist to do this after Katy Perry & Juicy J's Dark Horse music video. She is the 3rd Vevo artist to accomplish this after Justin Bieber & Ludacris' Baby and Katy Perry & Juicy J's Dark Horse music videos. On YouTube, she is the 4th artist to reach this after Psy's Gangnam Style, Justin Bieber & Ludacris' Baby, and Katy Perry & Juicy J's Dark Horse music videos. She is the 2nd solo artist, 2nd female artist, and 1st solo female artist on YouTube to reach this. Moreover, it is the fastest music video ever by a Vevo artist to reach 1 billion views in a record of just 8 months.On August 14, 2015, Shake It Off music video reached 1 billion views: just 4 days before it celebrated 1 year of release. It is her second music video to reach 1 billion views on YouTube and Vevo, making her the second artist to do so.On October 21, 2015, Blank Space music video surpassed the views of Justin Bieber's Baby music video, making it the most-viewed video in Vevo's history.On August 27, 2009, Taylor Swift performed a show in Madison Square Garden from her highly successful Fearless Tour. The show sold out in a record of 1 minute.On August 20, 2013, Swift was honored by Staples Center Senior Vice President and General Manager Lee Zeidman and officials from Red tour promoter Messina Group for breaking the record of the most sold-out shows for a solo artist. Her four sold out shows occurring on August 19–20 and 23-24 began a wave of record breaking shows. On August 19 she surpassed Madonna and Justin Timberlake, who each have logged seven sellouts, and on August 20 she topped Britney Spears' previous record of eight sellouts. Following her August 23–24 shows she became the #1 Solo Artist and tied with Latin Pop Group Mana for most overall sellouts with 11.On October 26, 2013, Swift became the first solo female artist in 20 years to headline a national stadium tour through Australia, with the last being Madonna's "Girlie Show" tour in 1993.On December 4, 2013, Swift performed to a capacity crowd of over 40,900 fans at the Allianz Stadium: Sydney, Australia; becoming first female artist in history to sell out the stadium since opening in 1988.On April 2014, Swift Breaks Shanghai Record Selling Out the Mercedes-Benz Arena, which seats about 12,000 for a concert, in sixty seconds following the release of her tickets. This is the fastest ticket sale in Chinese history.The Red Tour became the highest-grossing tour by a country artist in history, bringing in an overall gross of $150 million surpassing the prior country artist record held by double-billed Tim McGraw and Faith Hill Soul2Soul tour that brought in $141 million.On August 21, 2015, Taylor received a permanent championship banner at Staples Center for the most sold-out shows by an artist, with 16, breaking her previous record of 11. The banner is permanently displayed at Staples Center in LA.RIAAIn February 2010, Swift was awarded "Most Digital Song Certifications - Female Solo Artist" by RIAA for 25 songs achieving gold or multi- platinum status.On January 22, 2015, Swift surpassed Katy Perry (72 million) as the best selling digital singles artist in the United States, with cumulative G&P Digital Single Certifications of over 77 million including downloads and on-demand streaming. Making Swift the second artist to surpass the 70 million digital award threshold. Previously Swift was holding strong in second place with 69.9 million digital singles.On March 10, 2015, the RIAA increased Swift's cumulative G&P Digital Single Certifications to over 80.5 million including downloads and on-demand streaming. Making Swift the first artist to surpass the 80 million digital award threshold.PersonaWhen Taylor Swift was in 4th grade, she won a national poetry contest with her poem entitled "Monster in My Closet" at the age of only 10.When she was just 12 years old, Taylor Swift spent a summer writing a novel. At 350 pages, the story is finished and ready for print.At the end of 2009, the Associated Press named Swift "Entertainer of the Year".Later in November 2010, Swift was named "Entertainer of the Year" by Entertainment Weekly, making her the youngest Entertainment Weekly's Entertainer of the Year.On June 2011, renowned site Boot named Swift and Carrie Underwood Country Royalty, as they were the only female country artists to be ranked on Rolling Stone Queens of Pop list.In March 2013, Swift was named an immortal by Rolling Stone magazine. The 23-year-old and some of the post-millennial girl-power pop elite, including Beyoncé, were among 14 new immortals to join the pop culture arbiter's list of greatest artists of all time. "If Taylor Swift stopped producing hits right now, at 23, she could tour a killer oldies show for the rest of her life," Rolling Stoneproclaimed.At the end of 2009, "USA Today" named Swift "Musician of the Year".Taylor Swift was listed in Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People twice in 2010 and in 2015. Stevie Nicks and Mariska Hargitay wrote essays on Swift for the magazine.Taylor Swift is the first artist named as "Woman of the Year" twice by Billboard (2011/14).In 2015, Taylor Swift became the youngest woman ever, age 25, to be included on Forbes' "100 Most Powerful Women" list, ranking at #64.Also in 2015, Taylor Swift is the youngest person, age 25, to enter Fortune's 40 Under 40 List, ranking at #6; the highest rank ever for an entertainer on the list.Taylor Swift stayed 31 Weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100, the most of any artist.Taylor Swift was named as the most charitable celebrity by Volunteer for Social Change | for fourth year in a row (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015).At the age of only 26, Taylor Swift is the youngest person to be included in 2016 Forbes' America's Self-Made Women List with a net worth of $250 MThere are a lot of other things like awards , that i didn’t discuss . she has achieved all this in merely 10 years and that is something to be praised , not termed as underrated.If still anyone thinks that Taylor Swift is Underrated then maybe they don’t know what the actual meaning of the word is.