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.
'It’s better in Strangeways than out here': The business owners living in fear on Manchester's 'Counterfeit Street'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA metal shutter opens and reveals a hidden shop filled with designer clothing. Christmas is just weeks away, and the warren of streets in the shadow of Strangeways prison is a bustling hive of activity.
Couples and groups of young men and women lug bags of shopping along Bury New Road towards the city centre. Everything from the latest Beats headphones to new Adidas trainers can be found in these parts, but there's a catch. READ MORE: Many of the items on sale are knock off versions of the real thing - in an area long known as Britain's counterfeit capital.
Drug dealing, prostitution and street harassment are also ingrained here and residents who use the road complain it has become effectively "lawless." The mile-long stretch in Cheetham
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