Starlight 13

Cruel Summer was an album track from 3 albums prior and ended up being the biggest hit from the album, her most streamed song ever and one of the biggest songs globally in 2023 purely off of the hype of the Eras tour... yes a few months after it took off it ended up getting radio support but by that point it was already top 10 in both the UK and US officially, had it not randomly taken off because of the tour it would have never been a single. I never got why so many Taylor fans used to go on and on about how they'll never understand why Cruel Summer wasn't a single (truthfully I think its her most overrated song ever) but I guess I need to eat my words now :lol:

Hope Taste manages the official #1 so she manages 3 #1's from the same album - other than Ariana (thank u next/break up with your gf i'm bored/7 rings), Justin Bieber (sorry/what do you mean/love yourself) and Ed Sheeran (i don't care/beautiful people/take me back to london) I can't think of anybody else who has managed it in the streaming era?! EDIT: actually Lewis Capaldi managed it on his last album didn't he..... although that definitely took some creative accounting on the physicals front on his part lol EDIT: actually Ed has done it twice... and Jess Glynne technically.. just ignore this post LOL

Early predictions have this on track to do 290k-310k first week in the US :o huge

Really enjoying this! Taste and Good Graces are BOPS

I'm going again on Friday! My 4th and final show. Feeling lucky to experience this tour 4 times :wub:

Debuts at #198 on US Spotify and #145 worldwide... tragic

Guess pretty on lock for #1 then :D

Guess remix with Billie confirmed!!!! Out in less than 3 hours :o

Billie & Charli ‘Guess’ remix confirmed on both of their instagrams, out today at 6PM EST so 11pm UK!

Is everyone else also listening to August on repeat today? It’s only right!

Yeah funnily enough I remember this - we got the video about 2/3 weeks after it was sent to radio in the US even though there were clips of the video in the montage she posted the day Midnights was released months prior :lol:

Not really! Cruel Summer and IION were never intended to be singles, they just got pushed to radio because they were doing so well on streaming.. Cruel Summer was an album track from 3 albums ago that randomly took off when the tour started and IION was a vault track which only got pushed to radio because it did so well on streaming (Slut! was actually the song they originally pushed on Spotify on 1989 TV release day but they switched it up a few days later when IION randomly took off). Her last actual studio album rollout had a music video for all 3 singles (Anti-Hero, Lavender Haze, Karma) as well as an additional one for Bejeweled, ICDIWABH is the only single from an official studio album in her whole career that doesn't have a video (Cruel Summer doesn't really count), but who is to say its not coming!

Definitely the right choice for single #2 but I do agree that she’s left it a bit too long - think it could have peaked higher than #8 here had she pushed it and released the video in early June along with the UK tour dates! Either way, very pleased with this as a single! Probably my favourite from the album.

She looks amazing in the video, but the song is awful imo

Friday a friend of mine asked if I wanted to go with her instead of her boyfriend because he wasn't feeling well - they had got tickets last year when they went on sale and paid face value. Literally at 3pm on Friday, I had to get ready and be out of the door within the hour :lol: Then on Saturday night a friend of mine who lives in the US randomly got un-waitlisted by TM for the Sunday show. She gave me her TM login to try and get tickets with her code as she obviously wasn't going to be able to go herself. Went on and on my first attempt I was offered 2 front left standing tickets (obviously face value too as it was direct from TM!), legit nearly died, bought them instantly & just transferred them to my own TM account. I went with the same friend who gave me the ticket on Friday! I'm going again to one of the August Wembley dates too which are the tickets I got with my own code during the Midnights presale last year. Feeling v v v lucky to have been 3 times & be going a 4th in August :wub: (I went to one of the Metlife dates last year too as I was on holiday in NYC at the time)