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 fans go crazy as singer announces surprise new album - and there's not long to wait for it
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTaylor Swift fans can't quite believe their luck as she has announced some major news.The singer has revealed the surprise release of her eighth studio album which she recorded in isolation during the coronavirus pandemic.Taylor announced the news on social media and said that while she would have never done something like this before, the uncertainty of the current world had reminded her that "nothing is guaranteed".And fans don't have to wait much longer as the album, entitled Folklore, is released TONIGHT.She wrote to her millions of followers: "Most of the things I had planned this summer didn't end up happening, but there is something I hadn't planned on that DID happen.
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