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.
Stratospheric IPO Debut Makes China’s Kuaishou a Global Media Giant
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefShares of Chinese social video company Kuaishou made a stratospheric start in their post-IPO debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Early trading on Friday morning saw their price nearly triple, instantly making the TikTok rival one of the world’s largest media groups.Raising some $6 billion of new cash, the offer was already one of the largest in the Hong Kong market’s history.
But investors sought 1,200 times more stock than was available, made it a over-subscription record breaker too.On Thursday, the firm’s bankers set a per share sale price of HK$115, the top of an indicated range.
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