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.
New Releases
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Let's dive into this week's, shall we? Big single news this week from Arctic Monkeys, who marked their official return this week with There'd Better Be A Mirrorball - the first single taken from their upcoming album The Car.
Returning with a romantic swoon and something the Bond and Bacharach about them, the Arctics are not playing around as they head into one of the biggest chart battles of the year with Taylor Swift.
Elsewhere, The 1975 also unveil another track from the forthcoming Being Funny In A Foreign Language - I'm In Love With You a pleasingly up-tempo belter, slotting in comfortably between If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know) and The Sound, with an accompanying video that serves as a sequel to (the classic) Change Of Heart.
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