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.
Nicola Sturgeon's Covid briefings attracted 250,000 viewers at height of pandemic, MPs told
dailyrecord.co.ukBBC Scotland over its broadcasting of the briefings, head of news and current affairs Gary Smith defended them as he said they contained "important public health information”.
Smith said audience numbers for the briefings, in which the First Minister is questioned by journalists on coronavirus issues, had “varied”.
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