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.
Movistar’s Maria Valenzuela On Reinventing The Thriller Genre, The Next Stage Of Distribution & The Writers Strike
deadline.comMovistar’s fledgling distributor has struck its first slew of sales and is moving to the next stage, GM Maria Valenzuela has revealed, as she discusses the Spanish giant’s attempt to reinvent the thriller genre and how the writers strike is gifting opportunities to spotlight international content.
Valenzuela took charge of Spain’s largest pay-TV/SVoD operator’s distributor Movistar Plus Internacional last year and the former Sony and Huawei exec said it has “been an incredible journey” so far.
The outfit is shopping the likes of Rapa Seasons 1 and 2 and Off World (Apagón), which have sold to Vix+ in the U.S. and LatAm, and is in the process of taking a bunch of new shows to market, which Valenzuela described as the “next step and the big challenge of the coming year” as she chatted to Deadline before a NEM keynote at the Dubrovnik market on Tuesday. “Partners want to have a direct relationship with Movistar,” she said. “We were so encouraged by the response from around the world [to the distribution arm] and it is so valuable this knowledge we are bringing by having our partners closer.
We do not own a platform outside Spain and that makes us a standalone producer-distributor to be aligned with.” Co-production and collaboration opportunities will naturally improve as the distribution arm becomes more settled, added Valenzuela.
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