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.
National Album Day: 80s theme helps boost sales of classic albums
officialcharts.comThis year's National Album Day resulted in a boost in album sales last week, new figures have revealed. The UK-wide event - a celebration of the album format organised by The BPI and the Entertainment Retailers Association - took place on Saturday, October 10 and was themed around the 1980s.
To mark the occasion, a lineup of radio programmes went out across BBC Sounds, while several classic albums from the decade were reissued, many of which appeared in last week's Official Charts.
On the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, 23 of the Top 40 were titles released to coincide with National Album Day, including the Number 1 - a reissue of Iron Maiden's self-titled debut from 1980.
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