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.
The Love Island effect: Sales of songs by Irish artists on the TV series surge
officialcharts.comThe Irish artists whose music has been included on episodes of Love Island's 2021 series have experienced significant uplifts in sales, OfficialCharts.com/Ireland can reveal.
Love Island fans' ears have been 'coupling up' with music that they have heard on the hit reality show, with eight homegrown acts seeing their sales surge as a result of their newfound exposure to a new listener base.
Songs that feature Love Island range from dance anthems that soundtrack high-energy parties, games and contestant intro sequences to emotional, acoustic tracks that set the tone for heart-wrenching scenes such as eliminations and break-ups.
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