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’s 10-minute “All Too Well” breaks record for longest Hot 100 No. 1
thefader.com"All Too Well," a song from Taylor Swift's latest project Red (Taylor's Version) has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
At just over 10-minutes long, the track is now the longest single to go to No. 1 in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
For context, the previous record-holder was Don McLean’s “American Pie (Parts I & II),” which runs for 8 minutes, 37 seconds, and was No.
1 for four weeks in 1972. The original version of "All Too Well," a five-minute and 27 second-long cut on Swift's 2012 album Red, peaked at No.
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