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.
Eminem is on top, and has finally toppled Taylor Swift. The rapper achieved his 11th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), which moved 281,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S.
in the past week, via Billboard. It’s the largest week for any rap album in 2024. Keep reading to find out more… He now Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and Ye (formerly Kanye West) for the fifth-most No.
1s on the Billboard 200, behind The Beatles (a record 19 No. 1s), Jay-Z and Taylor Swift (each with 14) and Drake (13).
After 12 consecutive weeks at No. 1, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department spends its first week outside the top, falling to No.
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