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.
Bus boom as new £2 fares 'lead to 1.5m extra passengers' in three months
manchestereveningnews.co.ukLower fares led to around 1.5 million extra journeys being made on buses across Greater Manchester in the first three months since the £2 and £5 caps were introduced, according to analysis by transport bosses.
Reduced bus fares of £2 for an adult single ticket and £5 for an adult daily ticket came into force from September 4 last year - with Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) today releasing the findings of a detailed report commissioned to evaluate the initial period.
The report said bus patronage - the number of passengers - increased by 10 per cent for the period September 2022 to the November and the new fares are thought to have directly contributed to an increase of at least five per cent - which equates to around 1.5m additional journeys.
TfGM said it was 'difficult to directly attribute' what proportion of the 10 per cent increase was down to the new fares and what 'is attributable' to post-Covid recovery and other factors.
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