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 scores eighth consecutive UK Number One album with ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’
nme.comTaylor Swift has scored her eighth consecutive UK Number One album with ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’.The new LP, the latest in the pop star’s series of re-recorded albums, came out last week (November 12) and features the entire original album re-recorded, along with a host of ‘vault’ tracks and rarities.It debuted on top of the UK album chart yesterday (November 19) shifting 72,000 chart sales.
With 57,000 physical and digital sales, this makes it is the fastest-selling (physical and downloads) female solo artist album of 2021 so far, overtaking Lana Del Rey’s ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’.Swift’s latest chart-topper marks her fifth UK Number One album in less than three years, following ‘Lover’ (August 2019), ‘Folklore’ (August 2020),.
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