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UltraCruelSummer
post Apr 29 2019, 06:21 PM
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https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/t...evealed__20273/

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1 SHAKE IT OFF TAYLOR SWIFT 2 2014
2 I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE TAYLOR SWIFT 2 2012
3 BLANK SPACE TAYLOR SWIFT 4 2014
4 LOVE STORY TAYLOR SWIFT 2 2009
5 I DON'T WANNA LIVE FOREVER (FIFTY SHADES ZAYN/TAYLOR SWIFT 5 2016
6 WE ARE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER TAYLOR SWIFT 4 2012
7 LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO TAYLOR SWIFT 1 2017
8 EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED TAYLOR SWIFT FT ED SHEERAN 7 2012
9 BAD BLOOD TAYLOR SWIFT FT KENDRICK LAMAR 4 2015
10 STYLE TAYLOR SWIFT 21 2015
11 22 TAYLOR SWIFT 9 2013
12 WILDEST DREAMS TAYLOR SWIFT 40 2015
13 YOU BELONG WITH ME TAYLOR SWIFT 30 2009
14 READY FOR IT TAYLOR SWIFT 7 2017
15 DELICATE TAYLOR SWIFT 45 2018
16 GORGEOUS TAYLOR SWIFT 15 2017
17 END GAME TAYLOR SWIFT/ED SHEERAN/FUTURE 49 2017
18 RED TAYLOR SWIFT 26 2012
19 SAFE & SOUND TAYLOR SWIFT FT CIVIL WARS 67 2012
20 WELCOME TO NEW YORK TAYLOR SWIFT 39 2014

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Taylor Swift’s career blossomed a little later in the UK than elsewhere (her first UK hit came four years after her US debut), but boy has she made up for it since.

In the last ten years, she’s notched up 23 Top 40 hits on the Official Singles Chart, eleven of which are Top 10s, with one going all the way to Number 1. Not only that, but she has three Number 1 albums under her belt too. Well played!

Her Top 100 biggest tracks have amounted to 15.7 million sales (when physical, downloads and streaming equivalent sales are combined) – and while she has a controversial history when it comes to streaming services she’s managed to rack up over 550 million plays across her singles alone.

She’s no slouch when it comes to albums either; shifting some 3.29 million across her five releases in the UK. She’s got quite the reputation, you could say (sorry). View Taylor Swift's full Official UK Chart history

And there's more to come! Taylor's new single ME!, a duet with Panic! At The Disco singer Brendon Urie, is out now – while we wait to see how that fares, Official Charts reveals her biggest hits so far, based on sales and streams.

First, a few highlights:

Style
An instant fan favourite on her 1989 album, Style somehow – somehow – wasn’t quite the hit most fans thought it would become, despite safe-bet hitmakers Max Martin and Shellback (and Taylor) at the helm.

The track reached Number 21 on the Official Singles Chart (it fared much better in the US where it peaked at 6), its chart chances hampered in part by that decision to keep her music off streaming services. As such, Style is Taylor’s tenth biggest single in the UK, with 393,000 combined sales, split between 303,000 downloads and 18.9m streams.



Look What You Made Me Do
Despite the huge successes of chart-topping albums Red and 1989, one thing that had eluded Taylor was a Number 1 hit, which she soon remedied with the lead single from Reputation. Helped along by an accompanying video packed with in-jokes and laden with references to her internet presence and numerous celebrity spats, Look What You Made Me Do went straight in at Number 1 in 2017, and because it was available to stream straightaway, it's racked up 60 million plays to be her second most streamed track of all time. When combined with other formats, its tally comes to 712,000, her seventh biggest single in total.



I Don't Wanna Live Forever
There are five collaborations in Taylor's Top 20, but this one, which came from the first Fifty Shades sequel, is the biggest. Proving that the celebrity circuit is smaller than you'd think, Taylor's duet partner on this moody number is Zayn, who, of course, was bandmates in One Direction with Taylor's ex Harry Styles. The slightly awks connection certainly didn't do the track any harm, and it peaked at Number 5 in February 2017, becoming her fifth biggest song overall, and her most streamed of all time (so far), with over 70 million listens – its combined sales stand at 846,000.

Love Story
Taylor’s breakout hit in the UK was very nearly a Number 1, peaking at 2 behind Kelly Clarkson’s My Life Would Suck Without You (what a time to be alive). Taylor has the last laugh though; her song has over 1,000,000 combined sales to date – 475,000 more than Kelly’s – and is her fourth biggest track.

As the title suggests, the song literally tells a love story, something Taylor is particularly good at. It’s sweet, enchanting, and once you've got the lyrics in your head, ridiculously catchy.



I Knew You Were Trouble
The second proper single from her 2012 album Red, there was much debate over who I Knew You Were Trouble was about, with fans arguing whether it was about ex John Mayer or then-future ex Harry Styles, who she had already met, but not started the full-on 'Haylor' relationship that would come later.

The song was a Taylor/Max Martin/Shellback affair and her first and only foray into the dubstep genre, albeit mildly. In fact, part of the song’s success was down to the wobbly bit in the song where Taylor yells “Oh! Oh!”, which sparked thousands of YouTube videos replacing her with everything between a wrestler and a goat. Good times.

I Knew You Were Trouble stands as Taylor's second biggest single in the UK, with just over 1.1 million downloads and streaming equivalent sales.

Shake It Off
Taylor didn’t leave anything to chance with the launch of her album 1989 , leading with the peppy, surefire hit Shake It Off. It was a big pop moment for Taylor, seen by many as confirmation her country days were behind her.

Fitting, then, that it’s also her biggest single in the UK, with 1.6 million combined sales in the UK, made up of 984,000 downloads and 55.7 million streams. Sadly, it just missed out on topping the Official Singles Chart, peaking at 2, behind Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass.



Check out the full rundown of Taylor's Top 20 biggest singles on the Official Chart below.

When it comes to albums, Taylor’s most recent collection 1989 finishes top of the sales pile with 1.24 million combined sales to date. 2012’s Red is second with a very respectable 681,700 sales, and her 2008’s Fearless is third on 603,000. Taylor's most recent album Reputation is fourth, on 363,000.
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Comparison to last time:
1. (1) Shake It Off 1.6m
2. (2) I Knew You Were Trouble +1.1m
3. (4) Blank Space
4. (3) Love Story +1.0m
5. (6) I Don't Wanna Live Forever 846,000
6. (5) WANEGBT
7. (-) LWYMMD 712,000
8. (7) Everything Has Changed
9. (8) Bad Blood
10. (10) Style 393,000

11. (9) 22
12. (12) Wildest Dreams
13. (11) You Belong With Me
14. (-) Ready For It
15. (-) Delicate
16. (-) Gorgeous
17. (-) End Game
18. (14) Red
19. (13) Safe & Sound
20. (18) Welcome To New York

OUT:
15. Mine cry.gif
16. Teardrops On My Guitar
17. Both Of Us cheer.gif
19. Out Of The Woods
20. Our Song
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post Apr 29 2019, 06:28 PM
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Sales Updates (in one and a half years):
Shake It Off - 1.17m to 1.6m = +430k. Pure sales: 960k to 984k = +24k
Love Story - 799k to +1m = +201k
Style - 372k to 393k = +21k

Discography:
Singles total: 8.5m to 15.7m = +7.2m
Streams: 183m to 550m = +367m
Albums: 2.7m to 3.29m = +590k

Albums:
1989: 1.1m to 1.24m = +140k
Red: 624k to 681k = +67k
Fearless: 570k to 603k = +33k
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I always forget quite how big 'I Knew You Were Trouble' was wub.gif simpler times when the internet was polluted with goat memes.

'...Ready For It?' deserves so much more!
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post May 17 2019, 02:47 PM
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EHC went platinum today! ❤️
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QUOTE(UltraME! @ May 17 2019, 03:47 PM) *
EHC went platinum today! ❤️

And You Belong with Me went Gold - random!
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post Aug 21 2019, 11:43 PM
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another new update!

1 SHAKE IT OFF 1,600,000 combined sales (987k sales, 72.9 streams)
2 I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE 1,400,000
3 BLANK SPACE
4 LOVE STORY over 1,000,000
5 I DON'T WANNA LIVE FOREVER (FIFTY SHADES) 878,000
6 WE ARE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER
7 LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO 749,000
8 EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED
9 BAD BLOOD
10 STYLE 515,000 (303k sales, 23.7m streams)
11 22
12 WILDEST DREAMS
13 YOU BELONG WITH ME
14 READY FOR IT
15 ME!
16 DELICATE
17 GORGEOUS
18 YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN
19 END GAME
20 RED

Albums
1989 finishes top of the sales pile with 1.25 million combined sales.
2012’s Red is second with a very respectable 693,000 sales.
2008’s Fearless is third on 609,000.
Taylor's most recent album Reputation is fourth, on 378,000.
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Comparison to last time:
1. (1) Shake It Off
2. (2) I Knew You Were Trouble
3. (3) Blank Space
4. (4) Love Story
5. (5) I Don't Wanna Live Forever
6. (6) WANEGBT
7. (7) LWYMMD
8. (8) Everything Has Changed
9. (9) Bad Blood
10. (10) Style

11. (11) 22
12. (12) Wildest Dreams
13. (13) You Belong With Me
14. (14) Ready For It
15. (-) ME!
16. (15) Delicate
17. (16) Gorgeous
18. (-) You Need To Calm Down
19. (17) End Game
20. (18) Red

OUT:
19. (13) Safe & Sound cry.gif
20. (18) Welcome To New York

Sales Updates (in one and a half years):
Shake It Off - Pure sales: 984k to 987k = +3k -> at this pace, she'll hit 1 million download sales late 2020, oops thought it'd be sooner than that!
I Knew You Were Trouble - 1.1m to 1.4m = +300k
I Don't Wanna Live Forever - 846k to 878k = +32k
Look What You Made Me Do - 712k to 749k = +37k
Style - 393k to 515k = +122k

Discography:
Singles total: 15.7m to 17m = +1.3m
Streams: same as last time lolz
Albums: 3.29m to 3.34m = +0.500k:

Albums:
1989: 1.24m to 1.25m = +0.100k?
Red: 681k to 693k = +12k
Fearless: 603k to 609k = +6k
Reputation: 363k to 378k = +15k
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Those Style and I Knew You Were Trouble figures seem very off??

I can't see how either of them would outsell SIO, LWYMMD & IDWLF by that much, let alone outsell at all in the past 3 months.
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