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7 minutes ago, fridayteenage said:

it would be most pleasing if she blocks an album with a dear john collab

Somehow he stays lurking in the background of the Taylor universe. It's interesting to note he has contributions to songs by her friends Shawn Mendes, Ed Sheeran and Halsey as well as credits on Harry Styles' last album. Even Maren Morris has background vocals on his last album. :-*

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this chorus melody… it really makes me feel like I'm escaping into my mind :chick3:

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Wait the 65k signed cd sales. I thought it's not possible to track sales from her store anymore? 

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Lowkey wish they'd remove the Fortnight canvas on Spotify and replace it with others on all songs. folklore, evermore and Midnights have such beautiful ones. 

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12 hours ago, Kyle-x said:

She said let me rewrite those Big Machine era personal records and leave Borchetta in the dust. :clap3: Under Republic, she'll have had her personal longest running #1 album with TTPD, longest running #1 single with Anti-Hero, longest charting song with Cruel Summer, highest first week sales 3x over with Midnights>1989TV>TTPD, most successful tour with Eras, matched her AOTY wins, most critically acclaimed album with Red TV, charted more songs total on the Hot 100, more top 10s on the Hot 100, more #1s on the Hot 100, more cumulative weeks at #1 on the BB200, and had more #1 albums on the BB200. :clap3: 

 

Holy sh*t you're right, i never thought of it that way :deadbanana4:

 

Taylor really won at the end, didn't she?

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3 hours ago, pepsimanvn said:

Wait the 65k signed cd sales. I thought it's not possible to track sales from her store anymore? 

Sometimes it's still possible for brief periods after a release before they disable things - maybe these were just available for such a short time that it was possible to track.

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So 12th week on lock now. Good for her though. A personal best for the legend that she is. Hopefully she switches things up for the next album. I wish she would make another pure pop record again. Anti-hero and Cruel Summer shows she can still make bangers but i just wish we had another 1989 by a 35 year old with a somewhat pop mature sound and lyrics. How about taking inspiration from her thirties and her success.

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3 minutes ago, kayliah said:

So 12th week on lock now. Good for her though. A personal best for the legend that she is. Hopefully she switches things up for the next album. I wish she would make another pure pop record again. Anti-hero and Cruel Summer shows she can still make bangers but i just wish we had another 1989 by a 35 year old with a somewhat pop mature sound and lyrics. How about taking inspiration from her thirties and her success.

I think she will. She was very clear when TTPD came out when she said, "This is album i had to make for myself." I don't have the source but remember that clear as day. I took it as her saying this is a one-off album outside of her normal discography, and I think that's held to be true.

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7 minutes ago, kayliah said:

So 12th week on lock now. Good for her though. A personal best for the legend that she is. Hopefully she switches things up for the next album. I wish she would make another pure pop record again. Anti-hero and Cruel Summer shows she can still make bangers but i just wish we had another 1989 by a 35 year old with a somewhat pop mature sound and lyrics. How about taking inspiration from her thirties and her success.

I might be on the contrary here. I wish nothing as such. I want her to be more creative with her sound, i.e. doing something she has never done before. 

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13 minutes ago, kayliah said:

So 12th week on lock now. Good for her though. A personal best for the legend that she is. Hopefully she switches things up for the next album. I wish she would make another pure pop record again. Anti-hero and Cruel Summer shows she can still make bangers but i just wish we had another 1989 by a 35 year old with a somewhat pop mature sound and lyrics. How about taking inspiration from her thirties and her success.

Sorry, reading your message one more time now and I think I might be on the same page with you. Yes, a Pop album but mature sound and more

experimentation. I'm sure Jack can help her with it. He's one the best producers (if not the best) these days. And he has shown that he's quite versatile (collaboration with Lana, Lorre, St. Vincent, etc.). They just need to change the formula which helped them in the past. 

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Down Bad is SOTY lowkey

 

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She should make it a single

 

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PLEASE, we need her to block Em so he puts out some disrespectful and distasteful diss track about her, which she can use for promo for Rep TV :jonnycat:

 

(Also, if she wants the album to stay at the top, she could always release and promote Down Bad as the second single :duck:)

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Were you writing a book?

Were you

A sleeper cell spy?

 

We can never move on from this... That bridge is my daily incantation. Invented the emo genre.

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1 hour ago, JasonGosling said:

I might be on the contrary here. I wish nothing as such. I want her to be more creative with her sound, i.e. doing something she has never done before. 

She can be creative in her forties..i think she should cement her legacy further and make other diamond albums while she's still in her prime. I mean she will never be obsolete i think like a sheryl crow or alanis morisette. Love them but they were not relevant for 12 straight albums in a row. Also i do want her voice to age a bit and get even better by the time she goes in her forties. I grew up with taylor and will support her till shes in her 70s and 80s. 

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7 hours ago, pepsimanvn said:

Wait the 65k signed cd sales. I thought it's not possible to track sales from her store anymore? 

I think signed CDs are a little different since there's definitely a finite amount they can sell versus pre-orders for other things they have room to produce more before the shipment date if they "oversell" their initial stock

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Are there any rumors about next week? Eminem should do north of 200K, and some said 300-350K which sounds like a reach to me considering her last album did 270K.

If she wants to get that magic 13th week she will have to unleash something big.

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These are the major #1 contenders for Billboard 200 chart in the upcoming weeks:

 

7/5 Zach Bryan

7/12 Eminem

7/19 Jimin & Stray Kids

7/26 -

8/2 -

8/16 Post Malone

8/23 Sabrina Carpenter

8/30 -

9/6 -

 

It looks like she has a fairly good shot at blocking Zach Bryan, which will be the album's 12 week at #1.

HDD is predicting 300-350k for Eminem, so I think that will be the first time 'TTPD' drops to #2, and I don't think it'll return to #1 the week after either, since those two K-Pop albums will most likely debut with 150-200k each. But 'TTPD' will have a shot at #1 again in those 2 weeks prior to Post's album dropping, since those K-Pop albums will free-fall after week 1 and Eminem's album may have slowed down by its 3rd and 4th week.

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The bridge of The Prophecy is really top tier 

 

And I sound like an infant
Feeling like the very last drops of an ink pen
A greater woman stays cool
But I howl like a wolf at the moon
And I look unstable
Gathered with a coven round a sorceress' table
A greater woman has faith
But even statues crumble if they're made to wait
I'm so afraid I sealed my fate
No sign of soulmates
I'm just a paperweight
In shades of greige
Spending my last coin so someone will tell me
It'll be ok

 

I always have an actual physical reaction to "But I howl like a wolf at the moon". I don't know what it is, but it's like something wants to get out and I guess it just gets me. That song is truly settling as one of my (all time?) favorites from her.

 

I still can't believe I got to witness it live as my surprise song, and mashed-up with an evermore song no less. Between this and loml in Paris N1 + The Alchemy/Treacherous in Paris N4 + Chloe in Lyon N2, I truly got blessed by the TTPD gods.:jonny5: 

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1 minute ago, Klein said:

I always have an actual physical reaction to "But I howl like a wolf at the moon". I don't know what it is, but it's like something wants to get out and I guess it just gets me. That song is truly settling as one of my (all time?) favorites from her.

That part does something to my brain too, her delivery :jonny5:

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25 minutes ago, Feanor said:

These are the major #1 contenders for Billboard 200 chart in the upcoming weeks:

 

7/5 Zach Bryan

7/12 Eminem

7/19 Jimin & Stray Kids

7/26 -

8/2 -

8/16 Post Malone

8/23 Sabrina Carpenter

8/30 -

9/6 -

 

It looks like she has a fairly good shot at blocking Zach Bryan, which will be the album's 12 week at #1.

HDD is predicting 300-350k for Eminem, so I think that will be the first time 'TTPD' drops to #2, and I don't think it'll return to #1 the week after either, since those two K-Pop albums will most likely debut with 150-200k each. But 'TTPD' will have a shot at #1 again in those 2 weeks prior to Post's album dropping, since those K-Pop albums will free-fall after week 1 and Eminem's album may have slowed down by its 3rd and 4th week.

8/9 - ?

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5 minutes ago, BobLeeGO said:

8/9 - ?

Oops, seems like HDD omitted that week in their article talking about album releases this summer. I suppose no one relevant is releasing that week, so that could be a potential #1 week for 'TTPD' also.

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1 minute ago, Feanor said:

Oops, seems like HDD omitted that week in their article talking about album releases this summer. I suppose no one relevant is releasing that week, so that could be a potential #1 week for 'TTPD' also.

Maybe they hid it cause Gaga might be releasing there but she hasn't announced yet

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2 hours ago, kayliah said:

She can be creative in her forties..i think she should cement her legacy further and make other diamond albums while she's still in her prime.

At this point, more successful albums will not really add anything to her legacy, she's already one of the very most successful artists of all time. There's no legacy extension to be made from another successful album. 

 

Extending her musical palette with new soundscapes is pretty much the only thing she can still actively do to extend her legacy. The rest will be up to time. 

 

EDIT: actually, exploiting her current level of success to venture into new territories sonically and making sure people are aware of it is the best thing she could ever do. 

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Female albums

20+ 21

Bodyguard

 

15 tapestry

14 whitney

12 jagged little pill

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