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.
Spotify cancels the term ‘urban’ in UK amid Black Lives Matter movement
nypost.comGrammy categories will no longer be used by the streaming service in the UK.“Moving forward, we won’t be using the word ‘urban’ in the UK anymore,” Safiya Lambie-Knight, Spotify UK’s head of artist and label partnerships, tells Music Week. “I look after a breadth of what were previously ‘urban’ genres, and it will allow us to have broader conversations around creativity and artists.”The move comes in the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement that has intensified internationally after George Floyd was brutally killed while in police custody in May.After the music industry responded with Black Out Tuesday on June 2, Republic Records — label home to A-list acts like Taylor Swift, Drake and Ariana Grande — announced that it was removing the.
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