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.
AO Arena and Bridgewater Hall operator made almost 1,000 people redundant in Covid pandemic
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe group that operates Manchester's AO Arena and Bridgewater Hall made almost 1,000 people redundant during the Covid-19 pandemic and lost over £8m, it has been revealed.
SMG Europe Holdings, which trades under the ASM Global brand, said it "had to made a number of redundancies to help arrest the ongoing level of cost in the business".
The Manchester-headquartered group employed 2,111 members of staff in 2019, a figure that reduced to 1,668 in 2020 and again to 1,120 in 2021, according to new documents seen by the Manchester Evening News.
The company said the furlough scheme was a "major lifeline" for the business and had reduced the number of redundancies it made.
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