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.
The ‘biggest deal’ in Dragons’ Den history started with a ‘catastrophic’ row before life-changing turnaround
thesun.co.ukONE of the biggest success stories on Dragons' Den almost never happened after a 'catastrophic' row. The reality TV program shows entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a panel of venture capitalists in the hope of securing investment finance from them.
Ben Hardyment appeared on the show in 2012, asking for a £250,000 investment in his business idea. The entrepreneur was offer a 7.5 per cent equity in Zapper, which was his new website that allows people to scan the barcodes of books, CDs, games and DVDs to learn their value to sell.
Zapper then collects the goods and pay those people, and even offers 1p to take goods they can't sell to recycle them. "Declutter, the eco way," the website reads.
Ben went into the Dragons' Den thinking the annual rake in would be £1.1million, and net profits were estimated for £35,000.
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