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.
Scots job losses hit record high as thousands made redundant by Coronavirus
dailyrecord.co.ukcoronavirus pandemic has forced thousands of Scots out of work leading to record redundancy figures, new data has revealed. Around 30,000 people in the country lost their jobs in the three months to October - up from 5,000 between May and July, numbers from the Office for National Statistics have shown.
Shops, factories and hospitality businesses like bars and restaurants have been hardest hit. The figures were also up from 9,000 redundancies between February and April, and 6,000 between last November and January.It is the highest number seen since records began.Even the devastation of the global financial crisis of 2009 did not hit Scotland as hard.The previous record was seen between July and September this year, when 27,000 people were.
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