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.
NSG – ‘Roots’ mixtape review: A would-be summer classic packs chart-baiting hits and vulnerability
nme.comNSG‘s new mixtape ‘Roots’ had all the makings to be the soundtrack to this year’s summer before, er, all of this happened. With their biggest song ‘Options’ reaching Number Seven on the UK charts and over 28 million views on YouTube following suit, the star power emanating from these platinum-selling, shoulder-flinging east Londoners is almost overwhelming.Opening with the smoothest interpolation of TV’s iconic Arthur theme tune, these west Africans nod to West Indian culture with the Jamaican-born, reggae star Randy Valentine on ‘Political Badness’.
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