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.
Martina Topley-Bird announces her first album in over a decade, ‘Forever I Wait’
nme.comMartina Topley-Bird has announced new album ‘Forever I Wait’ – listen to lead single ‘Pure Heart’ below.Set to arrive on September 10, it’s the Bristol singer-songwriter’s first full-length release since her acclaimed 2010 LP ‘Some Place Simple’.The 12 track album – which was written, and re-drafted, over a prolonged period of time – is Topley-Bird’s first self-produced project and sees her collaborate throughout with Massive Attack‘s Robert del Naja (aka 3D).“I had to recalibrate/reconfigure my way of relating to music and the music industry in order to make the record I wanted to make.…and that took time,” Topley-Bird said of her upcoming new album. “And I took the time I needed.
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