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 Weeknd Repeats Reign Atop Billboard 200, Hot 100 & Artist 100 Charts
billboard.comHe triples up simultaneously for a fourth time. The Weeknd tallies his 17th total week at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated April 11), thanks to another huge week on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100 charts.
The pop/R&B singer-songwriter-producer's new LP After Hours logs its second week atop the Billboard 200 with 138,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data, partially aided by a new deluxe version of the album with three new tracks.
The set debuted atop the chart dated April 4 with 444,000 units, the top weekly total for any album this year. The Weeknd concurrently rules the Hot 100 for a second week with "Blinding Lights," while also charting the LP's tracks "Heartless" (No.
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