official chart H100: Is It Over Now #1 | 7 tracks from 1989 (TV) debut in the top 10

[fridayteenage]

I still <3 Brit, but Oops was the #4 album on Billboard Year End, and had the #4 best week of 2000 alone...

 

Anyway, wonder how much longevity this will have. It is a rerecording but it's already obliterated expectations with the debut.

[shookspeare]

the fact that a significant number of users were doubting it would even pull 1M even just a few months back 

[Яeo.]

Her next album will probably inch towards Adele if not break her record

[Яeo.]

29 minutes ago, =NEX= said:

I bet she will start plotting how to outdo 25's debut number with TS11 after this. She will need a lot of signed copies + a ton of traditional promo to reach the part of GP that is responsive to promotions. 

She needs a 3 months hiatus where she disappears.

then boom

surprise drop

3 M guaranteed easily

[Jay L]

Insane omg  Congrats to Ms Swift

[MidnightsAtPeace]

Imagine calling a woman who writes, composes, produces, plays multiple instruments, directs, and is an ACTUAL musician, untalented because she didn't dance on a stage with a snake 

[Chartman]

Re-recording

No traditional promo like interviews

No music video

No signed CD‘s

[Buffy]

8 minutes ago, The Music Industry said:

Ouu that's not-

 

 

[byzantium]

2 minutes ago, MidnightsAtPeace said:

Imagine calling a woman who writes, composes, produces, plays multiple instruments, directs, and is an ACTUAL musician, untalented because she didn't dance on a stage with a snake 

How dare you forget about Karyn the snake.  

[Maroonx]

Also, I am a Brit fan, but because Brit was brought into this convo and we're talking about how times change (based on how people get celeb news and buy records)...

 

Britney 15 years into her career released Britney Jean, and Taylor released Midnights 15 years into her career.  Britney Jean was already released during the "social media" online purchase times. Can you explain to me what happen there? @JayG

 

Honestly this isn't even me trying to defend Taylor, I'm just genuinely curious by your logic.

[Popboi.]

Her scoring her biggest first week with her 13th #1 album

 

Biggest vinyl debut ever

 

2nd best ever for a female and best of the decade (overall)

 

That one user fuming for dear life

[BtDecember]

1 minute ago, JayG said:

I'm sorry, did we have access to all that in our pockets 24 hours a day seven days a week with algorithms pushing that to our faces all hours of the day?! And instant access to purchasing/streaming physical/digital music? EMBARASSING to even try comparing the two but the delusion you guys have has zero bounds so i'm arguing into a void. Try again, "babes".

2000's biggest one-week sale:

#1 - No Strings Attached - 2.42 million

#2 - The Marshal Matters - 1.76 million

#3 - Black & Blue - 1.59 million

#4 - Opps!... I Did It Again - 1.32 million

#5 - 1 - 1.26 million

#6 - Chocolate Starship and The Hot Dog Flavoured Water - 1.05 million

 

2023's biggest one-week sale:

#1 - 1989 (Taylor's Version) - 1.65 million

#2 - Speak Now (Taylor's Version) - 716k

#3 - One Thing at a Time - 501k

#4 - Utopia - 496k

#5 - For All The Dogs - 402k

 

Taylor has the TOP TWO biggest one week sales in the period when it is UNCOMMON to sell over 1 million in one week while Britney sold a million copies in the period when it is very common to do so. Britney is not even in the top three. Britney has the advantage since people back then were FORCED to buy the whole album while nowadays people has the option to not buy the album. Yet, people BOUGHT the 1989 TV album, and thus Taylor BROKE Britney's record.

[Hitchhiker]

SHES CRAZY 

[MidnightsAtPeace]

1 minute ago, byzantium said:

How dare you forget about Karyn the snake.  

Hold on, in order to make it up to Karyn, I will buy every single vinyl variant that rep tv is going to have 

[Feanor]

Quote

Swift’s Republic Records noted sales of more than 1.6 million units in the U.S. and more than 3.5 million globally.

Deadline

 

Her label also claims 3.5M+ units for the worldwide debut.

[byzantium]

2 minutes ago, MidnightsAtPeace said:

Hold on, in order to make it up to Karyn, I will buy every single vinyl variant that rep tv is going to have 

If Blondie gives us a Karyn variant, I will buy it, no questions asked. 

[Starchild]

1 hour ago, dussel_06 said:

Wow. I’m even surprised as a swiftie.

 

And atrl has the audacity to say “Oh she’s just the IT girl for the moment” 

I wonder who are the other IT girls that do it like her.

 

She is really incomparable. Like the biggest artist of our generation. Like by far……. What a success! What a career!!!!! 

do some really use this as a drag?  

she's almost 20 YEARS into her career and she's the current it girl? that's a compliment 

[Cleanromantic]

You guys should leave Britney alone. Reading her book, she didn't really enjoy like 90% of her career from the start and then she had to deal with the conservatorship. Just ignore her crazy, nostalgia blinded stans and don't drag her into this. 

Op: Insanity. The fact that certain people were denying that this album is a classic pop bible for years too . No one does it like miss Swift.

[Arrows]

1989, the female Thriller

[BGood2Me]

No other artist is doing like her rn. Insane. 

 

Britney's #s at the time are also great. Includes only physical CDs, don't forget it. 

[UNNAMI]

TS11 coming for 2m

[Kool_Aid_King]

She snapped

 

[Kool_Aid_King]

2 minutes ago, UNNAMI said:

TS11 coming for 2m

If a bad album like MIDnights could do 1.5M, an actually good album can do 2M easily.

[Mitsuki]

I don't even have words to describe her anymore. 

[By the Water]

Now we need a second week at #1 locked