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.
Taylor Swift now tied with Whitney Houston for women with the most weeks at No. 1
thefader.comTaylor Swift's folklore spent its sixth week at the top of the Billboard 200 chart, officially tying her with late music icon Whitney Houston as the two women with the most cumulative weeks at No.
1. With 46 weeks total, the feat spans across all of Swift's albums combined. For Houston, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year, her self-titled debut, her sophomore album Whitney, The Bodyguard soundtrack and I Look to You make up her record.
Following Houston and Swift, Adele has the next-most weeks at No. 1 for a woman, with 34 weeks. The feat also means folklore has spent more weeks at No.
1 than any other album this year, edging out Lil Baby's My Turn, and is the longest running No. 1 since Drake's Views in 2016.
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