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.
A Greater Manchester children's arts and crafts maker owed almost £4m when it collapsed into administration and 30 people were made redundant, it has been revealed.
Brian Clegg, which was founded in 1973, operated from one unit in Rochdale and another in Middleton and supplied both retail and educational markets across England and Wales.
The company entered administration at the start of February, with the majority of its 36-strong headcount made redundant. READ MORE: Click here to sign up to the BusinessLive North West newsletter In a newly-filed document with Companies House, administrator FRP has detailed how much the business owed before it entered administration, the reasons behind its collapse and its subsequent purchase by a competitior.
In February, the specialist business advisory firm said Brian Clegg had been "loss making for some time and suffered from sustained cashflow pressure from rising input prices".
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