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.
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telegraph.co.ukthe Spice Girls remain the bestselling female pop group in history. And while the true meaning of ‘zig-a-zig-ah’ remains shrouded in a haze of Impulse body spray, their cultural significance cannot be overstated.Or at least, not if you were eight years old at the time.Critics might have sneered, parents may have winced – but for us, the girl power generation, it was a revelation to watch those five loud young women stomp their way to world domination.
Not just for the perfectly crafted pop tunes (come fight me on this), but for the gleefully unpolished interviews, the girls-rule-boys-drool manifesto, the avalanche of merch.
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