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.
Taylor Swift becomes first artist ever to have top-selling US album of the year five times
nme.comTaylor Swift has become the first artist ever to have the top-selling album of the year five times in the US since data tracking first began in 1992.The news comes as the singer’s ‘Folklore’ LP has finished as the top-selling album of 2020 in the US.
Released in July, it sold 1.276 million copies through December 31, 2020, making it the only album to sell at least a million copies during the year, according to MRC Data (via Billboard).Swift also logged the top-selling album of the year in the US in 2019 (‘Lover’, 1.09 million), 2017 (‘Reputation’, 1.9 million), 2014 (‘1989’, 3.66 million) and 2009 (‘Fearless’, 3.22 million).Over the past 12 years, just three of the top-selling albums have been by an act other than Swift or Adele.
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