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 still boycotting Grammys, despite ditching of nominations committees
completemusicupdate.comThe Weeknd has said that he still won’t submit his music for consideration by the Grammy Awards. This despite a number of rule changes at America’s big awards bash that almost entirely do away with the “secret committees” that prompted him to boycott this year’s event.Last week, Grammy organiser the Recording Academy agreed to remove nomination review committees from the shortlisting process in all but a number of what it terms ‘craft categories’ – awards for things like package design and immersive audio, where a smaller number of Grammy voters have specialist knowledge.Other than that, the decision of the Academy’s voting members will be final in almost all categories, including the ‘big four’ of Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year,.
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