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.
Variety Hires Veteran Video Producer Ethan Bellows as Director of Production
variety.comWilliam Earl Variety is adding to its video team. The industry’s leading entertainment publication has hired Ethan Bellows, a veteran video producer with a strong background in digital storytelling, as the head of production.
Bellows, who spent a decade at Entertainment Weekly as a senior producer, will be overseeing video coverage for Variety‘s live events as well as producing the magazine’s biggest video series such as Directors on Directors, which last year featured everyone from James Cameron to Ryan Coogler to Taylor Swift. “Ethan’s addition to Variety‘s video team will only make us stronger,” said Variety‘s co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh. “This year, we have set new records in audience growth across all platforms, especially video.
Millions of our followers are learning about our industry-defining coverage of the business of Hollywood through YouTube and TikTok.” Variety‘s annual Actors on Actors series for the 2023 Emmys TV season, which launched in June, landed 35 million views on TikTok in two weeks.
The conversations — which included a “Grey’s Anatomy” reunion with Ellen Pompeo and Katherine Heigl and Pedro Pascal (“The Last of Us”) nerding out over zombies with Steven Yeun (“Beef”) — have generated 10 million views on YouTube in two months. “Variety is an institutional pillar and I’m thrilled to join the team,” Bellows said. “It’s a privilege to work alongside the incredible journalists, video producers, and the events and marking teams.
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