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 things that make Altrincham "Utopia" - the town hailed best in the north west
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up for our What's On newsletter - for all the latest whether you're staying in or heading out and about It is the renaissance town of Greater Manchester - and Altrincham has yet again been crowned the best place to live in the north west by the Sunday Times, which heralded it as "where suburbia meets utopia".
Its high street, once dubbed the UK's worst, is now bursting with burgeoning independents, while dream properties alongside some of the region's best schools have pushed it to the top of family wishlists.
But for an area said to house the highest number of millionaires outside of London, Altrincham retains a down-to-earth charm, if you have the money to afford it.
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