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.
Kanye West offers support to Taylor Swift amid fights for music ownership rights, labels industry 'broken'
pinkvilla.comDays after sharing a video of of him urinating on his Grammy Award, Kanye West has called out for a change in the way music industry and record labels function.
The rapper, who has been making headlines for his unfiltered tweets and opinions, had earlier also criticised music labels over their ownership of rights to artists’ music.
Demanding for artists to 'own rights' their music and songs, Kanye said he was 'Team Free Artists' in his latest interview with Billboard.
Kanye also called out Universal Music Group from whom he has been demanding his master recordings. In a chat with the portal, Kanye compared today's contracts to those made in the earlier days.
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