 To promote the album, Swift embarked on the Fearless Tour, which ran from April 2009 to June 2010, and grossed $66.5 million from 99 shows.Prior to stardom, Swift received a publishing contract with Sony/ATV Music.Over the course of that period, Swift composed over 250 songs, either alone or collaborating with other songwriters, mostly with Liz Rose or Robert Ellis Orrall, and refused to give them away to already established acts with intentions of someday singing them herself.