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.
U.K.’s Channel 4 Sets $40 Million Global Format Fund, Digital Expansion
variety.comNaman Ramachandran U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 has announced a Global Format Fund that will invest in new British-created and produced formats with global potential that will initially be worth £30 million ($40 million) over two years.Channel 4 will guarantee minimum runs and recommissioning triggers up front for projects greenlit under this approach.
The Fund will focus on genres with the greatest potential for global format success, including daytime, factual entertainment, features and entertainment.The Fund is part of Channel 4’s new Future4 strategy that was outlined on Thursday.
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