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.
Crash study shows many Scots enjoy safer roads
dailyrecord.co.ukComparison website Uswitch.com studied data from the Department for Transport, looking at all those killed or seriously injured on UK roads over the last five years.
Its analysts then broke the stats down into local authority areas and the variety of road users involved in smashes.And it was Clackmannanshire that topped the 10 safest council areas, with 61 casualties in five years, while East Dunbartonshire (79) came third and West Dunbartonshire (119) sixth.Thankfully, no Scottish local authorities featured in the 10 most dangerous regions overall or in any of the categories of road users.When it comes to driver safety, The Wee County, with 26 victims, was second to the City of London (12) and East Dunbartonshire was close behind on.
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