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.
Bad Bunny Leads the Way as Latin Streaming Numbers Surpass Country for the First Time Ever
variety.comBad Bunny’s “Un Verano Sin Ti” continues to take the charts by storm, the new album becomes the leading catalyst for the Latin genre’s streaming push.
In a historic shift, “Un Verano Sin Ti” has claimed 18% of all U.S. Latin on-demand streams and has propelled the category’s streaming market share past country for the first time ever.Last week (ending May 12) was Latin’s highest streaming week to date with over 1.8 billion weekly ODA streams, according to Luminate via Billboard.That figure surpasses any weekly streaming total that the country genre has ever had to date.
This means that, for the week, at least, the Latin genre jumped up to take country’s place as the fourth most on-demand streamed genre in the U.S.
Since its May 6 release, the Puerto Rican singer has broken the record of the biggest week for any Latin music album, tallying 274,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S.“Un Verano Sin Ti” also marks the second time an all-Spanish album has topped the Billboard 200 — the first one was also at the hands of Bad Bunny for his 2020 album, “El Último Tour del Mundo.”Another victory for Latin music this week: for the first time ever, two all-Spanish-language albums have landed in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 simultaneously.
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