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.
UK benefits system 'least generous' in northern Europe claims SNP
dailyrecord.co.ukunemployment benefits are compared over 20 years across 14 countries in North West Europe, the UK ranks lowest in 95% of cases.
For the latest year available - 2019 for Switzerland and 2020 for the other 13 countries - the UK is only better in 2% of cases, equal in 1% and worse in 97%; and of the four cases in which the UK does not rank lowest or equal to, it is only by a single digit.
The figures show that unemployed people in the UK receive 16 percentage points of their employed income less than the average North West European country.
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