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 surprise Folklore album sells more than 1.3 million copies in 24 hours
metro.co.ukTaylor Swift is already making history with her new surprise album, as Folklore sells more than 1.3 million copies in 24 hours.The Cardigan singer announced the unexpected album on Thursday, just 15 hours before it’s release and it’s already breaking records.According to her label Republic Records – a division of Universal Music Group – Folklore hit 1.3 million sales in a day and set a Spotify record for the first day album streams by a female artist, with 80.6 million.The surprise project has already been making waves among critics and Swifties alike, with many calling this her best album yet.And Folklore is already leaving it’s mark in the record books after also becoming the most-streamed pop album on Apple Music in 24 hours, scoring.
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