3 minutes ago, Steve201 said:

Because 25 was her peak imperial era!

I guess also factoring in the fact she went away for 6 years and the overall market had seen a sharp decline in that time.

Just now, Mr. C. Joel said:

They have to do something the industry has changed over to streaming it's a way of keeping healthy physical sales?

So what do you suggest they do?

I want something real

5 minutes ago, Mr. C. Joel said:

They have to do something the industry has changed over to streaming it's a way of keeping healthy physical sales?

So what do you suggest they do?

I want the charts to be real, not inflated with fake sales because people want to see healthy sales.

There should only be:

CD

Vinyl (1 variant only)

Cassette

Download

Audio streaming only

No fake sales with dozens of formats

7 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:

I guess also factoring in the fact she went away for 6 years and the overall market had seen a sharp decline in that time.

Another factor that makes taylor, and others with huges sales noteworthy

It’s funny when people refer to CD singles as fake sales

5 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Another factor that makes taylor, and others with huges sales noteworthy

They're not noteworthy if they have dozens of formats and variants. They're fake sales and should not be counted.

12 minutes ago, Bristolmans said:

They're not noteworthy if they have dozens of formats and variants. They're fake sales and should not be counted.

2 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Sounds like your two brain cells. You clearly have nothing intelligent to say, at least I'm explaining why I disagree with fake sales due to dozens of formats.

20 minutes ago, Bristolmans said:

They're not noteworthy if they have dozens of formats and variants. They're fake sales and should not be counted.

So you know for a fact every single fan is purchasing all the variants? Because that’s not the case at all.

You’re also cutting a huge market of vinyl collectors out who collect vinyls?

I know I’d be bored if all artists had was one vinyl variant?! Multiple gives people choice.

I still don’t see your point it’s hardly fake sales when someone is going out and buying however many versions? Other artists do exactly the same it’s just Taylor has a bigger fanbase…So it’s all relative to the market no?

The only difference would be even less physical sales meaning streaming would be an even more dominant factor?! So smaller artists who use multiple variants probably wouldn’t even be able to compete with streaming the same with legacy acts who rely on physicals? How would that be fair?

It’s a small artist with loads of variants that uses that tool to chart in the top 5 for the very first time and instantly enhances their profile because of it helping them become a bigger name with more support. Surely that isn’t always a bad thing?

2019, 2021, 2023, 2025.

And still mentioning about fake sales funnily in 21,23, 25 when Taylor Swift has an album out.

The charts won't change.

I'm pretty sure Taylor's sales even without extra variants would be well over 300,000 this week anyway so it's neither here nor there.

I personally think the way the same Greatest Hits and pseudo-Greatest Hits titles endlessly clog up the album chart is a bigger problem than a few extra sales from variants in one week.

With variants i see them as more real sales than most of the streaming allocations towards albums.

With variants they are great collectors items that people make the choice to buy, not all streams are by choice making them more fake.