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.
'Ringleader' of county lines drugs gang brought down by sick footage on his mobile phone
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDon't miss out on the big stories from Manchester's courts with our weekly newsletter The 'ringleader' of a county lines drugs gang who forced their way into victims' homes and meated out violence has been jailed thanks to incriminating footage on his own mobile phone.
William Crowney, known as Scott, ran a drugs empire in Runcorn, Cheshire, who police said brought heroin and crack cocaine in from Merseyside and were the 'dominant force' in dealing it in the town.
And in a bid to enforce his position he oversaw a reign of terror which saw thugs smash their way into vulnerable people's homes and using them as drug dens.
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