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.
Manchester top rated city to replace London as capital, survey finds
manchestereveningnews.co.ukManchester is the top rated city to replace London as the capital, according to a survey. A YouGov poll for Times Radio found that one in six people - around 16 per cent - support moving the UK capital away from London.
Among those who wanted a new capital, more than half backed Manchester. Manchester came out on top overall from all respondents who voted in the poll, even among those who did not support changing the capital.
25 per cent of those polled backed the city, followed by 19 per cent for Birmingham and 17 per cent for Edinburgh. READ MORE: New rules announced for Deansgate to reduce traffic in car-free push Of those who supported a new capital, 55 per cent voted for Manchester, 42 per cent for Liverpool, 39 per cent for Birmingham and 37 per cent for Leeds.
Newcastle, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Cardiff, Cambridge, Portsmouth and Belfast all also received votes.
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