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.
WME Partners Finally Got To Sell 20% Of Stock This Week, And Many Took Advantage Of Post-IPO Opportunity At Endeavor
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: At WME, what a difference a year has made. Yesterday, many of the agency’s partners took advantage of an opportunity to sell 20% of their shares back to the company, based on the stock price derived from the agency’s recent IPO.
The stock of parent company Endeavor was at $28.60 a share. Now a public company, Endeavor would not comment, but my sources said that many took advantage, as the next chance to sell will be two years from now, at around 20%, and another liquidation event two years after that.
There are up to 180 partners — 25 new ones were minted late last year as full salaries were restored — and for the senior partners with the most shares, this is a serious cash windfall, in the millions dollars.
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