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.
Maren Morris Finds a Happy Middle Between Pop and Country, as ‘The Bones’ Makes Her 2020’s Crossover Artist of the Year
variety.comChris Willman Music WriterComing into 2020, Maren Morris had already been a massive crossover artist — but with a massive asterisk attached to that.
The country star’s previous pop success had been as the featured vocalist on Zedd’s ubiquitous 2018 smash “The Middle.” Could she cut out the middleman, as it were, and strike gold at pop formats on her own?Sony’s New York and L.A.
offices stopped biding their time on that question when they got ahold of “The Bones,” a track from her sophomore album, “Girl.” So while the company’s Nashville division was taking that record’s title song to No.
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