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.
Balloch's Ross Murdoch narrowly misses out on Olympic final spot
dailyrecord.co.ukBy Daniel ConnollyIn what was a stacked semi-finals in the 200m breaststroke, the task to continue on to the finals was always a tough ask for local boy, Ross Murdoch.
Murdoch, 27, who hails from Balloch, narrowly missed out on a spot in the finals. Murdoch’s race strategy resembled that of his 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games victory, where swimming with easy speed for the first half of the race and pushing the last half more often than not would finish in success for the University of Stirling swimmer.
However, this time around was not to be. Ross, with his powerful, long and efficient stroke, was not able to come back to the field enough on the last length to execute the race plan.
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