charts discussion Taylor Swift streaming thread: "You Need to Calm Down" reaches 1 billion streams

[Axelios]

16 minutes ago, Valance said:

seeing how poor the streaming of the non antihero singles in midnights show how weak the album is. lover and rep had way higher highs

Midnight has vastly better non lead single streams than Reputation 

[Klein]

50 minutes ago, Valance said:

seeing how poor the streaming of the non antihero singles in midnights show how weak the album is. lover and rep had way higher highs

Is that a joke or? 

[Valance]

47 minutes ago, Axelios said:

Midnight has vastly better non lead single streams than Reputation 

thank you folklore. her career is in a much better position now and rep is from 2017 where streams were like 1/2 of now

Edited October 8, 2023 by Valance

[Axelios]

5 minutes ago, Valance said:

thank you folklore. her career is in a much better position now and rep is from 2017 where streams were like 1/2 of now

Midnights tracks have better longevity than even Folklore if we compare them to their debuts.

Rep benefited from coming after 1989 and IDWLF being a huge hit. LWYMMD broke the spotify 24h record during its debut. The album just had horrible longevity on streaming compared to the rest despite having its own tour.

Edited October 8, 2023 by Axelios

[Klein]

11 minutes ago, Axelios said:

Midnights tracks have better longevity than even Folklore if we compare them to their debuts.

Rep benefited from coming after 1989 and IDWLF being a huge hit. LWYMMD broke the spotify 24h record during its debut. The album just had horrible longevity on streaming compared to the rest despite having its own tour.

It's not even a question of Midnights vs Rep. Midnights is in the top 10 biggest female album ever on Spotify in less than a year, and is still the 3rd most streamed female album. There's really nothing that suggests the album is weak.

[JawBreaker]

Midnights album tracks are clearly bigger than all her other albums.

I'm sure even Midnight Rain is performing better than 90% of her singles of the last 5 years were at the same point 

 

The Midnights slander has gotta stop!

Edited October 8, 2023 by JawBreaker

[JawBreaker]

The only thing I hate about these rerecordings is that they're gonna split the streams of Blank Space and Style. 

Both the tv and the og probably wont chart anymore just like what happened to Enchanted. 

[Holiest Dreams]

13 hours ago, Valance said:

seeing how poor the streaming of the non antihero singles in midnights show how weak the album is. lover and rep had way higher highs

The streams of LH and Karma are very much fine. But the album track streams blow all her other albums out of the water and it’s not even close. And that’s more indicative of the quality of a 20-track album than the streams of two singles, no? 
 

The OMHs are scrambling 

[By the Water]

Albums Daily Streams (October 7, 2023):

1. Lover - 11,633,184

2. Midnights - 11,024,779

3. 1989 - 9,202,688

4. folklore - 8,145,227

5. reputation - 7,300,934

6. Speak Now (Taylor's Version) - 6,395,437

7. Red (Taylor's Version) - 5,390,816

8. Fearless (Taylor's Version) - 4,719,679

9. evermore - 4,270,734

10. Speak Now - 1,564,376

11. Red - 1,253,712

12. Fearless - 1,152,475

13. Taylor Swift - 1,084,782

 

Top 10 most streamed songs yesterday (October 7, 2023):

1. Cruel Summer - 4,492,550

2. Blank Space - 2,145,461

3. Style - 2,045,788

4. Anti-Hero - 1,924,605

5. august - 1,651,241
6. cardigan - 1,530,422

7. Lover - 1,479,289

8. Don't Blame Me - 1,416,014

9. Karma - 1,304,283

10. Shake It Off - 1,182,975

[mael]

evermore the only recent alber absent from her top 10, make it make sense. Tis the damn season needs her pearls 

[Valance]

4 hours ago, Holiest Dreams said:

The streams of LH and Karma are very much fine. But the album track streams blow all her other albums out of the water and it’s not even close. And that’s more indicative of the quality of a 20-track album than the streams of two singles, no? 
 

The OMHs are scrambling 

1. Lover (2019) - 11,633,184

2. Midnights (2022)- 11,024,779

 

[Klein]

32 minutes ago, Valance said:

1. Lover (2019) - 11,633,184

2. Midnights (2022)- 11,024,779

 

And if you removed the streams from the singles Midnights would be above so they're right.

[Edge Of Glory]

random but has anyone been noticing "daylight"'s rise recently? i searched thru old tweets, and earlier in the year it was pretty consistently in the middle-lower half of lover's daily streams, but since around may/june its been pretty consistently in the top 5 most streamed songs from the album  overall its the 13th most streamed track on the album, but maybe it'll continue to climb up

[Kyle-x]

2 hours ago, Edge Of Glory said:

random but has anyone been noticing "daylight"'s rise recently? i searched thru old tweets, and earlier in the year it was pretty consistently in the middle-lower half of lover's daily streams, but since around may/june its been pretty consistently in the top 5 most streamed songs from the album  overall its the 13th most streamed track on the album, but maybe it'll continue to climb up

I believe it had a viral moment on Instagram reels/Tik Tok in southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia and Philippines starting around May of this year and peaked around the end of June. It's def been one of the songs that has gotten the most attention on Tik Tok so I can see it continuing to move up the ranks!

Edited October 9, 2023 by Kyle-x

[Holiest Dreams]

5 hours ago, Valance said:

1. Lover (2019) - 11,633,184

2. Midnights (2022)- 11,024,779

 

And the album tracks still have better streams in under a year than Lover’s has in 4
 

Lover is an absolute behemoth smash album anyway, in fact Midnights might not even surpass it overall after its late resurgence. I wouldn’t and didn’t deny that, it’s just that it’s a flat out lie that people didn’t resonate with Midnights. So… what now?

[greeneyedsoul]

Her team should push evermore songs on playlists now that Midnights flopped. 

[needs]

Delicate is fr one of her best songs.

[Peak Now]

Y'all be saying anything these days... next think you'll tell me 1989 is a weak album cuz it was single carried

[Klein]

1989 is a really weak album only carried by singles. The definition of a singles artist. 

 

Spoiler

 

Edited October 9, 2023 by Klein

[skizzo]

Well even if it were true, that album still had 7 singles lol

[By the Water]

Albums Daily Streams (October 8, 2023):

1. Lover - 10,880,498

2. Midnights - 10,297,698

3. 1989 - 8,482,918

4. folklore - 8,123,160

5. reputation - 6,792,277

6. Speak Now (Taylor's Version) - 6,061,516

7. Red (Taylor's Version) - 5,243,449

8. Fearless (Taylor's Version) - 4,536,453

9. evermore - 4,290,315

10. Speak Now - 1,521,043

11. Red - 1,133,403

12. Fearless - 1,074,999

13. Taylor Swift - 1,024,475

 

Top 10 most streamed songs yesterday (October 8, 2023):

1. Cruel Summer - 4,042,982

2. Blank Space - 1,936,747

3. Style - 1,903,391

4. Anti-Hero - 1,703,277

5. august - 1,625,035
6. cardigan - 1,479,781

7. Lover - 1,420,435

8. Don't Blame Me - 1,299,652

9. Karma - 1,162,123

10. Shake It Off - 1,048,169

Edited October 11, 2023 by By the Water

[By the Water]

Streams update:

Lover - 1,000,451,088

[littlebodybigheart]

lover has two 1 billion smashes and one of them is a 3rd single, and the other a 5th single that was released years later  and nothing for me! and yntcd

[By the Water]

Albums Daily Streams (October 9, 2023):

1. Lover - 11,383,910

2. Midnights - 11,141,380

3. folklore - 8,927,969 +1

4. 1989 - 8,885,300 -1

5. reputation - 7,254,624

6. Speak Now (Taylor's Version) - 6,433,057

7. Red (Taylor's Version) - 5,682,152

8. evermore - 4,872,233 +1

9. Fearless (Taylor's Version) - 4,674,690 -1

10. Speak Now - 1,549,153

11. Red - 1,229,724

12. Fearless - 1,106,099

13. Taylor Swift - 1,075,953

 

Top 10 most streamed songs yesterday (October 9, 2023):

1. Cruel Summer - 4,144,848

2. Blank Space - 1,997,258

3. Style - 1,970,101

4. Anti-Hero - 1,798,255

5. august - 1,692,827
6. cardigan - 1,599,126

7. Lover - 1,478,768

8. Don't Blame Me - 1,386,032

9. Karma - 1,240,858

10. Shake It Off - 1,078,219

Edited October 11, 2023 by By the Water

[By the Water]

Streams update:

1989 - 7,000,261,300

 

Taylor's most streamed songs:

7. Style - 960,972,560 +1

8. Look What You Made Me Do - 959,750,892 -1