official chart H100: Taylor breaks record by debuting 10 tracks in the top 10, all tracks in top 50

[yonsé]

iconic opening numbers for a great record

[PoisonedIvy]

2 minutes ago, simmnfierzig said:

I think it's what Drakes sells when he has his record breaking streaming weeks 

Let’s trade our sales for streams next era then like he does, I look forward to a billion first day streams for only one digital standard clean-only format release  

[Brando]

7 minutes ago, WeFoundTrouble said:

The 10K cassette units are probably what OTH's believe she would sell first week with "1" variant/format release  

when her next album arrives with just 1 version on cassette and nothing else and still tops 500k physicals 

[fridayteenage]

4 minutes ago, simmnfierzig said:

I think it's what Drakes sells when he has his record breaking streaming weeks 

46k sales for clb.

[Headlock]

13 minutes ago, Michael196 said:

They have to **** up the excitement for these achievements every time... if they want to do that entire break down of the versions and all that, then do it to everyone!!! Two entire paragraphs that could’ve been used to detail further milestones yet whoever is writing the article while eating their heart out, decided to do this bs, same with Red TV, where is this energy when it comes to everyone else that does the same and yet can’t achieve a fraction of what she manages to do?

 

It doesn’t even matter, because no one else would do this kind of damage even with 200 “versions”. Nobody besides stans even care 

[WildHeart]

 

[Dear Reader]

HURRICANE TAYLOR 

[PoisonedIvy]

Someone invent a new physical format for music so Taylor can shatter some more records  

[SleepingTigers]

The way midnights keeps winning 

[ALA]

Without vinyl she still did 1m... like this is amazing

[BlueTimberwolf]

1.578*

 

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-midnights-debut-number-one-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235163377/

 

 

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Midnights arrived after months of pre-release promotion and pre-orders — and its sales figure is bolstered by an array of available versions and variants of the album. It is available to purchase in a standard digital album (both clean and explicit); a deluxe digital album (clean and explicit, each with seven additional songs); an iTunes-exclusive version with a bonus spoken word track (clean and explicit); four standard CD editions (each with a different cover, both clean and explicit); four vinyl LP editions (each with a different cover and colored vinyl); and a cassette tape. Target is also selling an exclusive “Lavender” edition of the album on CD and colored-vinyl LP, with the CD boasting three bonus tracks.

 

Plus, in the weeks leading up to release, Swift’s webstore sold pre-orders of signed copies of the four standard CD albums and the four standard vinyl LPs. Midnights is also available in deluxe boxed set with a CD edition of the album and a Swift-branded T-shirt, exclusively for Capital One cardholders.

 

Some superfans may have also been enticed to purchase all four variants of the album on either CD or vinyl, as the back covers of the four albums fit together like a puzzle to display a clock face (a literal reference to Midnights!). Swift shared the news through her social media in mid-September, saying: “If you put all the back covers together, she’s a clock. It’s a clock… It makes a clock.” (Swift’s official webstore sells hardware to hold the four CDs or the four vinyl LPs together as a wall clock.) The idea of assembling multiple versions of an album’s back cover (or cover) together to reveal a larger complete image isn’t unique to Swift, as other acts (frequently in the K-pop world) have employed a similar marketing idea.

 

If Born This Way has an asterisk, then so does Midnights

[Poxy]

Wow!! Congrats!

[ObsessedwithBey]

Congratulations Queen! 

[Trainwreck]

Tomorrows update of the B100's Top 10 will be an absolute NIGHTMARE for the OTH  

[Ms. Togekiss]

 

[Mezik]

2 minutes ago, BlueTimberwolf said:

1.578*

 

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-midnights-debut-number-one-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235163377/

 

 

If Born This Way has an asterisk, then so does Midnights

How does that even make sense?!?!

 

you literally are just showing you’re a deranged hater that has nothing better to do with their life.

[Trainwreck]

4 minutes ago, BlueTimberwolf said:

1.578*

 

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-midnights-debut-number-one-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235163377/

 

 

If Born This Way has an asterisk, then so does Midnights

Absolutely NOT 

[By the Water]

6 minutes ago, ALA said:

Without vinyl she still did 1m... like this is amazing

Imagine if she waited to ship them  The album going back to #1 with 600k a few months after release

[By the Water]

5 minutes ago, BlueTimberwolf said:

1.578*

 

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-midnights-debut-number-one-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235163377/

 

 

If Born This Way has an asterisk, then so does Midnights

Will Billboard change their rules like they did after Born This Way? 

[BlueTimberwolf]

3 hours ago, Mezik said:

How does that even make sense?!?!

 

you literally are just showing you’re a deranged hater that has nothing better to do with their life.

 

[PoisonedIvy]

3 minutes ago, BlueTimberwolf said:

1.578*

 

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-midnights-debut-number-one-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235163377/

 

 

If Born This Way has an asterisk, then so does Midnights

Born This Way carries an asterisk because 1.000M copies of a 99 cent album is only $1M in revenue.
 

$1M of a standard priced $12 album = 85,000 albums. 

 

Taylor selling 1.1M pure copies of full priced ($12) albums gives us a minimum of $13,000,000 in profit, let alone the $30-40 vinyl units (575,000 x $35 = $20,000,000 in profit alone)

 

In short, Midnights’ first week is anywhere from 13-20x more profitable than Born This Way’s.  

[Ms. Togekiss]

6 minutes ago, BlueTimberwolf said:

1.578*

 

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-midnights-debut-number-one-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235163377/

 

 

If Born This Way has an asterisk, then so does Midnights

  ,,

 

Sit down 

[Mezik]

1 minute ago, BlueTimberwolf said:

 

Born this Way couldn’t even get 1M copies sold at regular price, Midnights had people buying multiple copies at full price. There is no comparison.

 

One struggled to sell 1M and only did with a massive discount, the other sold 1M with ease. Stop being a clown.

[PoisonedIvy]

1 minute ago, By the Water said:

Will Billboard change their rules like they did after Born This Way? 

Why would they change their rules about consumers paying full price for an album?   Are movie theaters suddenly going to stop counting gross for people who see films two or three times?   they’re paying for the product, whether you like it or not.

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