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.
THR Parent Valence Media Rebrands As MRC
deadline.comJill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorValence Media, the film and TV producer and publisher of The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard and Vibe, has announced a rebrand to MRC, formerly Media Rights Capital.Its publishing assets are now part of newly named MRC Media & Info.
Other divisions include MRC Film (Lovebirds, Knives Out); MRC Television (Ozark, The Outsider); MRC Non-Fiction (The Sparks Brothers, The Last Rider); MRC Live & Alternative, which houses dick clark productions; and MRC Data.MRC Film’s past titles include Baby Driver Ted, The Adjustment Bureau, Elysium and Babel.
Studio films it’s co-financed include upcoming The Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run and Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway. MRC Television’s most recent series is The Great.
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