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.
Latest Greater Manchester Covid infection rates - as numbers rise in eight of the region's boroughs
manchestereveningnews.co.ukCoronavirus infection rates have gone up in eight of Greater Manchester's 10 boroughs, figures published today showed. The weekly rates have fallen in two areas - Bolton and Stockport.
The borough of Manchester continues to have the highest coronavirus infection rate in Greater Manchester. It recorded a rate of 368.3 cases per 100,000 people in the week ending June 18, according to the latest data from Public Health England.
The figures to that date are the latest available. The lowest infection rate is in Stockport, where the rate is 199.4 cases per 100,000 people.
In Greater Manchester as a whole, the infection rate is now 284.2 cases per 100,000 population. That's higher than the national average, which is 98.2 cases per 100,000 people.
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