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.
An incredibly lucky lotto winner who scooped £2 million says he almost didn't pick up a scratch card because of road works outside the shop.
Ian Black, 61, quit his 40-year job at the Pirelli factory in Calisle, Cumbria after he won the jackpot on his way home from work.
He went through his general routing of stopping at the shop to pick up a newspaper and scratchcard after finishing his night shift. Read more: Non-urgent surgery and appointments restart at Greater Manchester hospitals as Army called in But, Ian says he alsmot didn't bother carrying out his normal routine on his lucky day because roadworks outside the shop would have placed an extra half hour on the journey.
Despite this obstacle, he bought a Monopoly Deluxe scratch card. After scratching the card, Ian rushed home to his wife Sandra, 55, and told her to 'come downstairs and check something'.
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