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.
Sign up to FREE email alerts from the Northern Agenda Boris Johnson has said there is still no evidence that he will need to delay the final step of the lockdown roadmap - despite early signs of a rise in positive cases of coronavirus.
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show signs of a potential rise in the proportion of people testing positive for coronavirus in England.
The Prime Minister insisted that there was "nothing in the data" to suggest the government will need to "deviate" from its plans, while the ONS stressed that rates were low and it was too soon to say if the rise was the start of a trend.
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