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.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentVivendi, the parent company of French pay TV company Canal Plus Group and advertising banner Havas Group, saw its revenues increase by 13.4% to €2.3 billion ($2.4 billion) during the first quarter of 2022.The company’s financial results were mainly driven by the growth of Canal Plus Group, Havas Group, as well the Vivendi Village, which is behind live events, and the video game outfit Gameloft.
Results also took into account Prisma Media, the recently acquired publishing group. During the first quarter of 2022? Canal Plus Group’s revenues reached €1.4 billion ($1.5 billion), a 6.5-percent year-on increase.
Revenues from television in mainland France and international operations went up by 6.5% and 6.2%, respectively. Studiocanal, the TV and film banner, saw its revenues rise by 4.5% in one year, thanks to the performance of a few movies such as “Superwho?,” “Waiting for Bojangles” and “Goliath,” as well as a large volume of library sales.
Canal Plus Group and ViacomCBS recently inked a long-term strategic partnership which will allow the pay TV group to distribute Paramount+ as part of its hard bundle by the end of the year, along with nine ViacomCBS channels.
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