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 Five Best Up-and-Coming Artists We Saw at SXSW 2024
variety.comJeff Miller There’s no question that South by Southwest’s music portion is going through something of an existential crisis.
The long-running Austin-based conference/festival — which wrapped up Sunday after a 10-day run that encompassed not just music but film, tech, education and more — has become more of a financial challenge from up-and-coming artists, and this year’s controversy about the U.S.
Army’s and weapons manufacturers’ sponsorship of the festival (and the subsequent boycott from dozens of bands) didn’t help.
The days of multiplatinum artists performing inside a giant Doritos-branded stage (this actually happened in 2014) and the anything-goes free-food-and-booze showcases are long gone and what’s left is, well, something like what the festival felt like in its early years: a place for artists, executives and hopefuls to come together for a few days to hopefully meet a new tourmate or pick up a little press and eat their weight in brisket along the way.
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