April 22, 20241 yr Wow Taylor's success is phenomenal truly nobody else can touch her. Also I am gobsmacked at Adele, Ed Sheeran and Oasis selling THOSE quantities in week 1 alone!!! I don't know how that passed me by or if I just forgot!?!?
April 22, 20241 yr Wonder how many copies it'll shift tonight as the online sale of Record Store Day occurs. #42 is impressive from just the weekend considering it's limited edition and isn't available digitally 15,000 were available in total - guessing the UK got about 5k of that?
April 22, 20241 yr Incredible sales for Taylor! I haven't got round to listening to the album yet but what I've heard of it is pretty good (namely 'Fortnight' and 'Florida!!!'). I also do fear that Taylor may now block some reasonably big albums from the top in the weeks to come (I thinking 'Radical Optimism' will have to fight really hard to get that #1, potentially even Kings Of Leon's upcoming album) Oooh god, I didn't think about that. I could easily see them both doing about 50-60k in two weeks time! 😳
April 22, 20241 yr Oh the meltdowns if Taylor beats Dua... would it be Taylor's 3rd week? I think it's unlikely that Dua isn't #1 but it's possible. I know the schedule is different this era but Future Nostalgia didn’t actually debut at #1! Dua’s a lot more of a consistent streamer / long running smash kind of act than a huge debut so it wouldn’t be *that* shocking if she didn’t get number one debut. We’ll see how the Taylor impact fares for weeks to come though I do think it’s possible had she went next week Taylor would still be number one with relative ease but Taylor’s week three could be closer. Edited April 22, 20241 yr by Jordanlee
April 22, 20241 yr Future Nostalgia *did* have a huge debut - 34,390, and less than 600 off #1 which was 5SOS in a very heated battle! Midnights was on 32,589 in week 3 so that could be an interesting battle.
April 22, 20241 yr Hozier got his first US 1 today which is good because I can see Fortnite being 1 for awhile there but maybe not here
April 22, 20241 yr Delighted Hozier managed to sneak in that transatlantic double before Billboard inevitably becomes one long Taylor Swift playlist. More symmetry in the fact that Take Me To Church (sadly) stalled at #2 in both countries.
April 22, 20241 yr What a bizarre albums top 10. The #1 selling 200k after 3 days in a climate where basically nothing ever sells over 100k anymore... and then almost every other album is a band from 20+ years ago 😅
April 23, 20241 yr With 31 tracks of the digital version of Taylor’s album, I wonder whether it means average streams per track will be fewer than for other albums and so bring down her overall sale equivalents in the long run? Certainly her version of 1989 had a higher proportion of steams than this week’s release. Then again this is a brand new set of tracks so might be more likely to attract physical sales, esp in Week 1
April 23, 20241 yr Love her or hate her, Taylor's incredible numbers are really good for the music industry as a whole. Edited April 23, 20241 yr by Rob
April 23, 20241 yr Love her or hate her, Taylor's incredible numbers are really good for the music industry as a whole. Pure sales yes, but there has been a lot discussion that huge artists like her get all the streaming money even from people who are not listening to them. For example this: Spotify confirmed that it would stop paying royalties on songs that received fewer than 1,000 streams a year. The move quickly incited blowback. Amelia Fletcher, a competition professor and independent musician, slammed the changes as discriminatory and exploitative. It’s important to note that Spotify, which is in the midst of a radical cost-cutting drive, won’t actually save any money from these changes. The group pays a percentage of its sales out to the music rightsholders, which is then divided up between artists based on their share of total listening. These changes are about how much money each artist gets from within that fixed pot. The financial consequences will be more significant for the major labels, which will expect a windfall with more money going to a select group of blue-chip musicians. This comes after Universal Music in October warned that it would be introducing a “cost savings program” in 2024. Lay-offs are set to begin in the next few weeks, with a couple of hundred jobs expected to be cut globally, according to people familiar with the matter. https://www.ft.com/content/78a7b1b8-20ae-48...08-af2b5fc35d7b Edited April 23, 20241 yr by Sour Candy
April 23, 20241 yr are we seriously also gonna blame Taylor for how shitty Spotify is and how little it pays?
April 23, 20241 yr No, but we are saying that huge stars like her might not benefit the music business overall as much as we think.
April 23, 20241 yr https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/t...-week-sales-uk/ Today's sales flash (April 23), shows The Tortured Poets Department to have shifted in excess of 220,000 units in the UK in just three days. Comparatively, Midnights managed a seven-day total of 204,000 on its release in 2022.
April 23, 20241 yr are we seriously also gonna blame Taylor for how shitty Spotify is and how little it pays? When they hate somebody, they really hate her. Everything that wrong in the world these days it her fault! 😂😂 She’ll stay winning ✌🏼✌🏼
April 23, 20241 yr wow a 23K increase today, and that includes Sunday Spotify streams which are the lowest of the week but kinda weird he did +14K with Sat data and +23K with Sun data
April 23, 20241 yr wow a 23K increase today, and that includes Sunday Spotify streams which are the lowest of the week but kinda weird he did +14K with Sat data and +23K with Sun data Yeah, that’s weird and confusing me as well, I must say, this is gonna be so close!
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