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.
Why are investors paying big money for song rights?
msn.comHipgnosis Songs Fund, which has been bought the rights to about 61,000 songs since 2018. 'When times are good, we celebrate to soundtracks of great songs, and equally well when we're experiencing challenges, we take escape and comfort from songs,' the Canadian-born executive said. 'The other thing besides the predictability and the reliability is that these songs are uncorrelated.
The revenues are uncorrelated to what's taking place in the market. 'Unlike industries such as energy, mining and travel, the music industry's finances are not seriously affected by recessions or wild swings in market behaviour.
People may forfeit their annual foreign holiday during bad times, but they will still listen to music in good times and bad.
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