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.
Increased Black Representation Could Add $10 Billion Annually to Hollywood Revenues, Study Says
thewrap.comfrom consulting firm McKinsey & Company, says it arrived at that $10 billion figure “based on closing the representation deficit for Black off-screen talent, achieving production and marketing budget parity, and giving Black-led properties equal international distribution”As things currently stand, the problem is that existing inequalities have resulted in “fewer Black-led stories” being told, and in those projects being “consistently underfunded and undervalued, despite often earning higher relative returns than other properties.”In addition, the study says that a major problem is the lack of systemic help within the industry in ending inequality.
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