Long before stadiums and eras tours, Taylor Swift was a high school freshman trying to come up with something upbeat enough for a talent show.
That’s the origin story behind “Our Song,” which Swift wrote entirely on her own in about 20 minutes during her ninth-grade year in Hendersonville, Tennessee. She’d been dating a boy at the time and, as she’s told it, realized the two of them didn’t have “a song” the way couples in other songs always seemed to. So she wrote them one, played it for her classmates at the talent show, and initially had no intention of putting it on an album at all.
That changed once her friends kept singing it back to her weeks later. Swift pushed her label, Big Machine Records, to include the track on her self-titled debut album in October 2006, even though it hadn’t been part of the original plan.
The song didn’t become a single right away. Big Machine sent “Our Song” to country radio in September 2007, and it climbed steadily before making an unusually large jump on the Hot Country Songs chart, from No. 6 straight to No. 1, the week of December 22, 2007. It was the chart’s biggest one-week leap to the top spot since Tim McGraw’s “Just to See You Smile” in 1998.
The timing mattered for another reason: it made Swift, technically 18 at the time, the youngest person ever to solely write and perform a No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. “Our Song” held that top spot for six consecutive weeks, eventually crossed into the Hot 100’s top 20, and was certified four-times Platinum by the RIAA. It also picked up Female Video of the Year at the 2008 CMT Music Awards.
Nearly two decades later, it’s still the song most closely tied to how Swift’s entire career got started.
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