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.
BBC to produce 'Northern soap' to rival Coronation Street and Emmerdale
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe BBC has said it is planning to launch a 'Northern soap' which could rival Coronation Street and Emmerdale. Bosses have said that funds will be invested in "two new long-running network drama series over the next three years." One of these will be from the north of England and the other from part of the UK other than England..
They say it will be part of more than 100 new and returning drama and comedy titles will reflect the lives and communities of audiences outside London, including at least 20 that will portray Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
It's part of the corporation's biggest transformation in decades which they revealed on Thursday (March 18), entitled "Across the UK".
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