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Oh dont worry it doesnt have 33 variants and still it has sold over 30m man seriously? yes everybody does have variants these days but 34????? on the first week alone with more coming on the way???.....Lets be honest with our selves, she does that big time!!How can you talk and compare records and sales of 1, 5 or 10 vairiants with 34???Any logical human being can see the paradox in it, unless they choose not to !

well what can i say out of 350k Swift has sold up to today in the Uk 285k are physicals so the 23 viriants played a huge part beacuse of the repeat buys. I am not sure as to whether her following is as big as you think or they are just very loyal and buy every sngle version of the 23 released. Back then though they only released one version of the album and not 23 viriants or else people like Michael jackson, madonna, whitney etc would sell tons of albums on their first week.

i am not saying it never happened but the same way now you stream an album out of curiosity and its gets sales......so i wonder how many people stream it out of curiosity and they never buy it cause they dont like it much.

Not really cause back then you would buy an album, if you were not a hard die fun (and most likely you`d love the album but you would buy 1 copy not 10) because of the singles they released or because you heard iot from a friend. It would still be one version of the album though, not 10-15.

The ones you mentioned are today and its like you said, even though i think nobody has milked their funs the way swift has especially with her last one. All i said is that you cant compare todays sales with the ones in the 80s,90s,2000s

Its not the same as the artists back then didnt try to milk their funs with all these variants and then adding two songs each time every two weeks for the next two months, like Taylor did since yoou mentioned her, If you bought 4 copies of the same album... well not much i can say about that. haha. All i said is that you can not compare todays sales with those and the reasons are very obvious.

Well most of these albums were released in 3 formats only ,1 LP, 1 Vinyl and 1 cassette so there is no comparison to today where you have 5 cd 5 vinyl and 5 tapes at least of the same album! Back then it meant so much more...! Those were the real records!!!

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston (2x) Always great to see Whitney certifications. If they hadnt swiched from "the ulltimate collection" to this one, "ultimate" would probably be at 8 times platinum by now.

hahahaha this is the same paper that thinks most of TS albums are great hahaha

Well in a perfect world , charts would be based only on pure sales and not playlists etc....

so is Catfish And The Bottlemen - 7 which reached no 81 on the charts.your point?

Apparently it wasnt as flop as you thought. lol

To be honest i think the reason it wasnt as succesful as her previous ones its because it was a boring album one of the same..

I am sure he doesnt mind to let Alex enjoy the spotlight, he has 13 more no`1s anyway..lol

I agree its not a new version and its definitely not new fans that buy the same signed version a year later... When it comes to records and thats not only for Taylor, i cant compare an artist that sold millions and stayed at no1 with a single album version to any artist that has released too many versions of the same album.

so its the Darkenss and Taylor...ok lol

but at least i am more talented, me and another 1000 singers out there....we just luck marketing skills and brainless funs like you... :)

well it is dumb to buy the same record with a printed autograph and then a few more same versions of the same album. If you think about it its the same people buying the same record in different versions she`s released over the course of a year. I never said she is untalented, just not as talented as her marketing skills.

sereiously now? she has released this album in about 50 different versions. No other artist has done that...

Taylor is so lucky, she has the most devoted and somewhat simple minded fans. They dont bother giving their money for absolutely nothing. She has figured that out so she does everything she can to take it from them..into her bank account. She`s a clever girl, if only she was as talented.

and thats the area of streaming..... uncharted songs becoming platinum.....

it doesnt matter anymore. Even her other "singles" certifications were only two top 20 not even a top 10. Thats the state of certifications nowdays, 7 certifications and not a single top10

Birthdays? this happens now as well. Listening to songs you dont really like its the norm now with the playlists and they get sales and charts points. As for R.E.M it was still bought, same as steaming a song now and then never listen to it again, willingly at least. Most albyms and singles in the past were bought because people wanted to and not because someone else chose the list. the singles sold back then didnt help the album sales it was all pure sales for singles and for albums, one didnt count towards the other;'s sales and there's no argument to that. its a fact , whether someone likes or not.

Why should it? in the past you didnt buy an album or a song that you didnt want. Now a song can be on a playlist that you stream and it gets sales regardless as well as its album. Sales now are fake and lost their interest, its just for fun.