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.
FilmTrack Enables Entertainment Enterprises to Manage Rights Effectively
variety.comBob Verini It’s always been true that in show business, the piper must be paid. And not just the piper, but everyone involved in the making of a show.
Compensating the piper has never been more complicated than it is today, and the tools employed to allot the dollars properly are often behind the times.
Back in the day, the separation between East Coast-based bankers and West Coast-based filmmakers kept business processes opaque.
Not so today. The changes that have taken place over the last 120 years have been both technological (television, cable, VHS, DVD, streaming) and legal (the busting-up of the studio/distribution marriages; the rise of stars as independent contractors), and all of them have tended to offer greater transparency.
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