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.
Nearly half of Scots prefer to give or receive cash at Christmas than gift cards
dailyrecord.co.ukChristmas gift, a new survey has found. Four in 10 (40%) people in Scotland prefer to give cash gifts and that same percentage would prefer to give money in the form of coins and banknotes, the YouGov research carried out in December for ATM network Link discovered.
Younger people were particularly likely to prefer to receive cash, with 45 per cent of 16 to 24-year-olds saying this would be their choice, alongside 43 per cent of 25 to 39-year-olds.
Across the study, just under three in 10 (29%) would prefer to receive Christmas money in the form of a bank transfer, while 14 per cent would want a gift card and 4 per cent would opt for a traditional cheque.
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