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.
Thousands more cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Greater Manchester as the number of infections nationally has reached a three-month high.
The number of UK infections is up by 23 per cent in the space of a week, with another 45,140 cases recorded today (October 17).
Today's rise is the largest since July 20. READ MORE:What it's like to be falsely accused of being a paedophile In Greater Manchester, rates are spiking in eight boroughs, according to the latest data from Public Health England.
And infection rates in one area have nearly doubled in the last seven day period. The number of cases per 100,000 people in Rochdale rose by 47 per cent in the week ending October 13.
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