Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Adele's '30' Becomes Top-Selling Album of the Year During First Week of Release
justjared.comAdele is at the top of the Billboard 200 chart! The 33-year-old singer’s new album 30 debut at number one on the latest albums chart for the week ending November 25. Adele easily earned the biggest debut of the year and she also has the top-selling album of 2021 after just one week of release. Click inside for more details on the numbers… 30 made its chart debut with 839,000 equivalent album units, according to Billboard.
The previous biggest week of the year was for Drake‘s Certified Lover Boy, which earned 613,000 units back in September.
Comprising that 839k number are sales of 692,000 albums, streaming equivalent album unit of 141,000, and track equivalent album units of 6,000.
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