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.
New UK Music report reveals one in three music jobs were lost during the pandemic
nme.comcoronavirus pandemic.The trade body, which represents the collective voice of the UK music industry, has laid out the stark findings in their newly published annual report, This Is Music 2021.According to the report, 69,000 jobs in the UK music industry have been lost during the pandemic, with employment figures plunging by 35 per cent in 2020.Other findings include how the UK music industry’s economic contribution fell by a record 46 per cent (from £5.8bn to £3.1bn) in 2020, while music exports suffered a drop of 23 per cent last year (from £2.9 billion in 2019 to £2.3 billion).Live music revenues in the UK collapsed by around 90 per cent in 2020, with the coronavirus-enforced shutdown of live music forcing many musicians and people.
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