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.
UK state pension 'falling behind' neighbouring countries, warns SNP
dailyrecord.co.ukstate pensions in Britain are the lowest as a proportion of pre-retirement wages of all of our European neighbours. UK pensioners receive around a quarter (28%) of the average working wage when they retire, where as pensioners in Luxembourg and Austria receive 90% of the average working wage.
But the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said comparing pension schemes was "complex" due to "fundamental differences" in the way they are run.
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