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.
Alan Parsons retains preliminary injunction over former business partner accused of trademark infringement
completemusicupdate.comThe Eleventh Circuit court of appeal in the US has upheld a preliminary injunction in the ongoing dispute between musician and producer Alan Parsons and his former business partner John Regna.Having first built his reputation via studio work with the likes of The Beatles and Pink Floyd, Parsons enjoyed success in the 1970s and 1980s through his creative partnership with the late Eric Woolfson.
That collaboration used the moniker The Alan Parsons Project.Between 2009 and 2018, Parsons pursued various solo projects via his partnership with Regna’s company World Entertainment Associates Of America.
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