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.
Sony Pictures Hits $84 Million in Q4 Profits Thanks to ‘Uncharted’ Box Office
thewrap.comSony Pictures saw its fourth quarter profits reach $84 million (11 billion yen), up significantly from when the film division posted a loss of $2.7 million the same quarter a year prior.
And the Japanese conglomerate’s film division completed its fiscal 2021 with $1.67 billion overall (217.4 billion yen) operating income, up 55% from the previous year. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” was the big hero for the year on the whole naturally, and it even had some lingering box office into the start of 2022 that helped prop up Sony Pictures’ Q4, as did “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” but the studio also saw a solid performance from “Uncharted” based on its PlayStation video game franchise. “Spider-Man” wasn’t the only factor however, as the media division saw the acquisition of the anime streamer Crunchyroll to the tune of $1.18 billion.
Further, the international success of “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” and the $500 million licensing of “Seinfeld” to Netflix also weighed heavily in the increased profits of the media division.However, Sony Pictures is projecting a fall of $900 million for its fiscal 2022 without a mega blockbuster like “Spider-Man: No Way Home” on the horizon.
Parent company Sony Corp had an operating income of 1.16 trillion yen for the year and 138.6 billion yen in Q4 2021, though both were slightly below analyst expectations, which had predictions of 1.2 trillion and 148.5 billion yen respectively.
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