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.
Congress Considers Ticketmaster Regulation Bill Named After Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift
thewrap.comPascrell said in a statement announcing the bill. “The recent experience of Taylor Swift fans being locked out of her tour is not new and Swifties are just the latest victims of Ticketmaster’s policies and a broken market.
For decades, the ticket market has been the Wild West: Mammoth, opaque, speculative, and brutally unfair.”He added: ” A fan shouldn’t have to sell a kidney or mortgage a house to see their favorite performer or team.”Fans of Springsteen and Swift, though hardly alone, very public experienced egregious problems when trying to buy tickets for the artists’ shows in 2022.
In Springsteen’s case, some fans were gouged by prices as high as $5,000 thanks to what Ticketmaster called “dynamic pricing.” Swift’s fans meanwhile were subjected to absolute chaos as Ticketmaster’s system was unable to accommodate demand for tickets and repeatedly crashed — ultimately giving the advantage to scalpers, who jacked up the price on re-sale markets.
That incident sparked bipartisan outrage in Congress.Pascrell and Pallone have been proposing this kind of legislation since 2009, but so far Ticketmaster has escaped additional federal oversight.
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