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.
A graph showing the number of new Covid cases each day lays bare the impact lockdown has had on stopping the virus spreading.
Figures from the Department of Health reveal that the latest wave reached its peak in the first week of January, before a sharp fall.
At its height the UK was recording more than 60,000 cases a day and the government was blasted for acting too slowly before Christmas.
Yesterday The Mirror revealed that cases had fallen in all but four of England's 315 local authority areas since the start of the third national lockdown.
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