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 Fends Off Zach Bryan to Spend 12th Week Atop Album Chart, Breaking an Old Whitney Houston Record and Tying Recent One Set by Morgan Wallen
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Taylor Swift‘s streak at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with “The Tortured Poets Department” continues unabated, as the album fended off a strong challenge from a new Zach Bryan release to spend its 12th consecutive week atop that chart, breaking or tying a couple of records in the process.
With the latest No. 1 ranking for “Tortured Poets,” Swift’s album broke the record previously set by Whitney Houston’s “Whitney” for the most initial consecutive weeks at No.
1 from an album by a female artist. That 1987 Houston album spent its first 11 weeks on top of the chart before dropping off.
As more contemporary benchmarks go: “Tortured Poets” is now tied with Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” for the collection that has spent the most consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200 in this century. (Altogether, Wallen’s latest blockbuster album spent a whopping 19 weeks at No.
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