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.
Official Charts Flashback 2007: Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
officialcharts.comRobyn's unlikely ascent to Number 1 with With Every Heartbeat is the stuff pop legend; an example of brilliant song going all the way against the odds because - gasp - the public genuinely loved it.
Climbing to Number 1 this week in 2007, the track's success completed a four-year journey for Robyn which began in 2004, when she parted ways with record label Jive, who disliked the electropop direction her music had taken.
She then set up her own outfit Konichiwa Records, released her self-titled album and peddled the music for three years, picking up numerous accoldaes in her native Sweden (including three Swedish Grammys), leading the rest of the world to take notice.
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