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.
Adele confirms new album release date and tells of 'most turbulent period of life'
dailyrecord.co.ukAdele has confirmed her new album is indeed called 30 and will be released on November 19 as she explained it was her "ride or die throughout the most turbulent period of my life".
The Someone Like you singer revealed the cover artwork, which shows of a side profile shot of her face against blue-green background.
On social media, she wrote: '30 - November 19' and put out a lengthy statement about the process she went through to write the album as she coped with her marriage breakdown.She wrote about her split from Simon Konecki and began: "I was certainly nowhere to near where I'd hoped to be when I first started it nearly 3 years ago."Quite the opposite actually.
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