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.
Fontaines D.C. “didn’t want” chart battle with Taylor Swift
nme.comFontaines D.C. have reflected on their chart battle with Taylor Swift last year, saying they “didn’t want” the attention.The Irish five-piece’s second album ‘A Hero’s Death’ went head-to-head with Swift’s ‘Folklore’ in a highly publicised battle for the top spot in the UK album charts last July.Swift ended up retaining the Number One spot that week, and Fontaines have now said that the chart battle wasn’t something that appealed to them.“We didn’t want too much to do with that,” frontman Grian Chatten said (via Contact Music).
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