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Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of fourteen to pursue a career in country music. She signed to the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's self-titled debut album in 2006 established her as a country music star. "Our Song", her third single, made her the youngest sole writer and singer of a number one song on the country chart. She received a Best New Artist nomination at the 50th Grammy Awards.
Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in late 2008. Buoyed by the chart success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless attracted a crossover audience and became the top-selling album of 2009. The record won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest ever Album of the Year winner. Fearless also received Album of the Year plaudits at the American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards and Country Music Association Awards, making it the most awarded album in country music history. In 2010, Swift released her third album, Speak Now, which sold over one million copies in its first week. She then embarked on the 111-date Speak Now World Tour, which was attended by over 1.6 million fans and has become one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. The album's third single, "Mean", won two Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. Swift is currently recording her fourth studio album, due for release in the fall of 2012.
24/7 is an abbreviation which stands for "24 hours a day, 7 days a week", usually referring to a production line or service facility or any other business available at all times without interruption. In the UK it may be known as round-the-clock service, with or without the hyphens. In some countries, such services are called nonstop.
In commerce and industry it sometimes identifies a service that will be present regardless of current time or day, as might be offered by a supermarket, convenience store, ATM, automated online assistant, filling station, restaurant, concierge services or a manned computer data facility. Today, it is common for call centers to have representatives available 24/7. This is due to, in part, a decrease in long distance call charges, which allow employees based in one continent and time zone to provide services to customers in another during its night hours.
In some cases, even a service stated to be available 24/7 may shut down, such as on a major holiday.
An extended version 24/7/365 intends to denote a service that is available year-round, by including the number of days per year.
Time is a common term for the experience of duration and a fundamental quantity of measuring systems. Time may also refer to: