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.
Cher responds to Kate Bush breaking her Official Chart record with Running Up That Hill, topping Believe
officialcharts.comIn case you've been living under a rock, or somewhere with absolutely abysmal 4G signal, you'll know that Kate Bush scored last week's Official Number 1 single with Running Up That Hill.
The surge of interest in the song, thanks to its inclusion on Netflix show Stranger Things, also saw Kate break three Official Chart records in the process.
Kate now boasts the longest time taken for a track to reach Number 1, the longest gap between Number 1 Singles and the title of oldest female ever to top the Official Singles Chart.
Casual. And now Cher, the previous oldest female title-holder, has weighed in on Kate's unexpected victory. Cher was 52 years old when Believe went to Number 1 in 1998 (remember those iconic Top of the Pops performances in various iterations of animal print, seven weeks on the trot?) But, at almost 64 years of age, Kate's now topped that title by over a decade.
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