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.
Born in the U.S.A.: The Top 50 Artists by State, From Bruce Springsteen to Garth Brooks & Taylor Swift (Staff Picks)
billboard.com"50 States, 50 Television Shows," considered which TV shows are most synonymous with each state. Cheers, for instance, represents Massachusetts; Seinfeld, New York; and Hawaii Five-O (you guessed it), Hawaii.The feature itself borrowed from an earlier Huffington Post spotlight on movies associated with each state, entitled "The United States of Movies." The Wizard of Oz embodies Kansas; My Cousin Vinny, Alabama; and, of course, Fargo, North Dakota.For July 4th, Billboard again spins off the fun premise by assigning 50 musical artists to 50 states. (In most cases, the representative artist was born in his or her chosen state.
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