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.
Beyoncé becomes the first Black woman to top Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart
thefader.comBeyoncé has made Billboard chart history with her new song "Texas Hold 'Em." The single, which was released immediately after the Super Bowl earlier this month, has debuted at No.1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart this week, making her the first Black woman in history to do so. "16 Carriages," which was released alongside "Texas Hold 'Em," debuted at No.
9. The move to country has also made her the second solo female artist to debut at No. 1 on the same chart after Taylor Swift, who achieved the feat in 2021 with the re-recordings of "Love Story" and "All Too Well." Read Next: Jay-Z used his Grammys speech to ask why Beyoncé has never won Album of the Year Zooming out from the country chart a little, "Texas Hold 'Em" debuted at No.2 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, one place behind "Lovin On Me" by Jack Harlow.
Both “Texas Hold ’Em” and “16 Carriages” will appear on Beyoncé’s upcoming studio album, Act II, due for release on March 29..
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