charts discussion Taylor ties Adele and Ariana for most solo female 1 billion songs

[PurrKaty]

5 hours ago, Mystic Boy said:

 

 

Stay mad i guess?  

Nobody can have an opinion with this fanbase, Gosh 

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions.
 

Your opinion is to pretend simple math between 2 numbers doesn’t exist, that I’m mad, and that the Taylor fanbase doesn’t allow opinions. Were my opinion is 2 numbers can be added together, it seems like you’re projecting your own anger, and that Taylor fans and Taylor haters have differing opinions. 

[Mystic Boy]

3 hours ago, taylorrrr said:

And I'm just stating my opinion and you're having a meltdown, gosh 

Do you even know what a meltdown is?

 Enjoy your billion streamed songs from 15 albums! Slay Queen! 

Edited November 12, 2023 by Mystic Boy

[PurrKaty]

46 minutes ago, anti-***** said:

 

But you could also argue that releasing more songs increases the chances for hits. You never know what's gonna blow up on Tiktok, so having more tracks to choose from makes it more likely to be a song by Taylor. And constantly feeding the fans new stuff (or re-releases) seems to be a winning strategy in the streaming age. It's not a diss at Taylor to point that out. Drake is doing it as well. It keeps the interest going. I'd rather say that Adele needs reconsider her career strategy, because although she's got seven songs with a billion streams, and eighth coming soon with "Send My Love," just one of them is from the latest album. Either way, we should be celebrating women being successful at any chance we get, because it looks like streaming has tipped the industry scale to be more male-centric again. Behind Taylor, there's so many guys pulling most of the streams.

Releasing more songs could increase ones chance of a hit, but you also provide evidence in the same post of Adele that it’s not always the case lol. The quality of music and consistency in good quality music is what seems most important imo.

[PurrKaty]

7 minutes ago, Mystic Boy said:

Enjoy your billion streamed songs from 15 albums! Slay Queen! 

It truly is a slay that 15 albums into her career she’s still able to turn out billion streamed songs, not everyone can do that!  
 

This opinion I actually agree with  

[Taylena]

She'll leave everyone behind next year - solo or non-solo. 

[anti-bitch]

31 minutes ago, PurrKaty said:

Releasing more songs could increase ones chance of a hit, but you also provide evidence in the same post of Adele that it’s not always the case lol. The quality of music and consistency in good quality music is what seems most important imo.

But I gather that you stan Katy, right? Don't you think some of her more recent songs have unfairly low amount of streams? I just don't think the quality of music is always a relevant factor for a hit. Sometimes it can just be blatant hype, like in the case of that Dance Monkey song.

[anti-bitch]

58 minutes ago, Sebastián Muñoz said:

If your theory was correct, big artists would be releasing as constantly as Taylor does. I'm not talking about Adele, I'm talking about Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran, Maroon 5, Justin Bieber, Olivia, etc. They all are not releasing as much as Taylor does, and the answer why is in the example that you are giving: even if Drake or other artists start publishing music as constantly as Taylor does, that doesn't guarantee them a hit. 

 

I know it's not a diss to Taylor, but people really assume that this privilege that she's having is not because she is the biggest artist in the world, but because she is addicted to charts or whatever. No, artists can't release music as much as they want if there is not enough demand/safe investment for them. 

The Swifties are a different beast compared to other fandoms, for sure. And certainly that's to Taylor's credit, that she's been able to harvest that amount of people to care about her. But chart success isn't always just because of the music itself. You can see it in the way Midnights has been streaming amazingly since its release, but at least some fans say that it's not her best album. And also you see it from the way all these old songs that were not necessarily hits before are blowing up now. Some Swifties used to call Lover as "Loser" but now suddenly it's her biggest album in recurrent streams. So there's deffo a hype train going around Taylor right now, but even with her, if you go back a few years, she wasn't this monster that she is now. Maybe it was Folklore that really helped to boost her career (again).  And it seems that Tiktok has made a whole new generation aware of her (past) music.

 

 

56 minutes ago, Klein said:

Yes, but still the more songs you release, the more your streams are going to be spread out. That's why it has become rare for big artists to get post-album release hits. Once people have access to the entire album, everyone can pick their favorites and there's no focus on just one song. 

And that's on the Swifties, that they religiously listen to a lot of Taylor's songs every day. As much as Taylor is the biggest artist in the world, she also has the most devoted fanbase to make that happen.

[Strawberry Bubble]

33 minutes ago, anti-***** said:

The Swifties are a different beast compared to other fandoms, for sure. And certainly that's to Taylor's credit, that she's been able to harvest that amount of people to care about her. But chart success isn't always just because of the music itself. You can see it in the way Midnights has been streaming amazingly since its release, but at least some fans say that it's not her best album. And also you see it from the way all these old songs that were not necessarily hits before are blowing up now. Some Swifties used to call Lover as "Loser" but now suddenly it's her biggest album in recurrent streams. So there's deffo a hype train going around Taylor right now, but even with her, if you go back a few years, she wasn't this monster that she is now. Maybe it was Folklore that really helped to boost her career (again).  And it seems that Tiktok has made a whole new generation aware of her (past) music.

 

 

And that's on the Swifties, that they religiously listen to a lot of Taylor's songs every day. As much as Taylor is the biggest artist in the world, she also has the most devoted fanbase to make that happen.

I agree with everything you've said, but your comment is not denying my point: the reason she can release music so frequently it's because there's a substantial demand for her work. Before Lover, she followed the typical pattern of releasing music every two years, similar to the artists I mentioned earlier. However, things took a significant turn after "Folklore". Her popularity skyrocketed, so now she's able to release two albums every year while maintaining her status as the world's most streamed and successful artist.

 

I would like to see another artist that is able to do that, because I can't think of any. So, that's why having 1000 albums doesn't guarantee you'll have 1000 hits: this is just a case for Taylor. If that strategy was a guarantee for success, the artists I've mentioned before would be doing the same. 

[anti-bitch]

53 minutes ago, Sebastián Muñoz said:

I agree with everything you've said, but your comment is not denying my point: the reason she can release music so frequently it's because there's a substantial demand for her work. Before Lover, she followed the typical pattern of releasing music every two years, similar to the artists I mentioned earlier. However, things took a significant turn after "Folklore". Her popularity skyrocketed, so now she's able to release two albums every year while maintaining her status as the world's most streamed and successful artist.

 

I would like to see another artist that is able to do that, because I can't think of any. So, that's why having 1000 albums doesn't guarantee you'll have 1000 hits: this is just a case for Taylor. If that strategy was a guarantee for success, the artists I've mentioned before would be doing the same. 

I bet there's gonna be more artists trying it in the future, maybe Ariana or Bieber. I guess they are taking mental health breaks right now. Idk what Scooter's doing to these people. But yeah, let's say someone like Ed Sheeran. It's seem like he's burned out a bit. I think he released two albums this year. And I guess Drake's strategy is to just throw something in there and see if it sticks, lol. And I guess Taylor's gonna need a break too, at some point. Or at least when she's finished with the re-recordings, it could go back to being a more "normal" release schedule for her, because it would be hard to write two new albums every year, so maybe one a year.

[Strawberry Bubble]

7 minutes ago, anti-***** said:

I bet there's gonna be more artists trying it in the future, maybe Ariana or Bieber. I guess they are taking mental health breaks right now. Idk what Scooter's doing to these people. But yeah, let's say someone like Ed Sheeran. It's seem like he's burned out a bit. I think he released two albums this year. And I guess Drake's strategy is to just throw something in there and see if it sticks, lol. And I guess Taylor's gonna need a break too, at some point. Or at least when she's finished with the re-recordings, it could go back to being a more "normal" release schedule for her, because it would be hard to write two new albums every year, so maybe one a year.

I like Ariana's music, so it would be nice to see more of her. We'll have to wait.

Edited November 12, 2023 by Sebastián Muñoz