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.
Things Mancunians remember from their childhoods you don't see anymore
manchestereveningnews.co.ukfdfdfdfd Long before Metrolink, trolley buses were the what we took to get ourselves around Manchester. At their peak 20,000 trolleybuses, which run on wheels and are powered by overhead electric cables, were in operation in the UK.
They were first used in 1911 and were phased out during the 1950s and 60s. In Manchester, trolleybuses ran on routes 210, 215 and 216 from Ashton-under-Lyne to Piccadilly and Stevenson Square - and were last used on the day the network linking the city closed down in Manchester in 1966.
Although sales of vinyl continue to bounce back, the invention of digital download and streaming services changed the landscape of music shops selling physical records and CDs.
Of course many of the large chains like Virgin Megastores have now gone, there were also at one time many independent record shops in business in Greater Manchester.
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