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4 minutes ago, MidnightsAtPeace said:

Prediction for TTPD debut units: 

450k CDs

850K Vinyls

20K Cassettes 

Digital Sales 250K

SEA 430K

 

Total: 2M

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Seems reasonable :suburban:

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i hope the jazz/r&b rumors are false, and the folkmore part. 2 is real

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Can someone make the TTPD border gif of Tophiachu in this pose?

 

 

Taylor definitely took inspiration from her the more I look at it.

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7 hours ago, hungrymuffin said:

i think you guys are too confident in your predictions, midnights sound is very commercial, i doubt this album will be like that

Still don’t understand why y’all keep saying this. You’re in for a huge shock if you think people won’t eat this up even more than Midnights if it’s not quite as ‘pop’. If anything, it having more real instruments and being alt-inspired would make it smash harder. 

 

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This is the most anticipated album of her entire career. Literally all eyes will be on her. Everyone and their mothers will be perched to stan or with their pitchforks. Hardcore swifties, haters, Joe Alwyn widows, Gaylors, Tayvis stans, you name it. This is NOT doing less than Midnights unless its truuuuly terrible. Yall need to bffr. 

 

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45 minutes ago, Holiest Dreams said:

Still don’t understand why y’all keep saying this. You’re in for a huge shock if you think people won’t eat this up even more than Midnights if it’s not quite as ‘pop’. If anything, it having more real instruments and being alt-inspired would make it smash harder. 

 

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Would it be a Taylor release without some underestimating... like not setting her up is one thing, but being delusional enough and say that this won't surpass Mid, when her power has multiplied since then and she even stomped that with a rerecording of a decade old album...

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I don't see as much hype for this as there was for 'Midnights' and social media engagement on her variants reveals have also been noticeably worse than for '1989 (TV)', so methinks this won't make it to 1.6M

 

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Yeah the couple months of silence before Midnights felt much more tense with anticipation than this time around. But I trust in mother to have some tricks up her sleeve to start building up hype towards the release soon

 

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5 minutes ago, Feanor said:

I don't see as much hype for this as there was for 'Midnights' and social media engagement on her variants reveals have also been noticeably worse than for '1989 (TV)', so methinks this won't make it to 1.6M

 

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Midnights era before the MMWM series was crickets bffr and there is definitely more hype for TTPD than there was for Midnights

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This will do more than Mid and 19Katy9 (TV) obviously, anything below 1.5M is a BOMB and everything above 2.2M would be absolutely insane. Since 19Katy9 did around 1.65M, i'd say 1.8-2.0M is the expected debut range for TTPD (this might actually be her peak but tbh you should never question Taylord.. inb4 TS13 in a couple years is another repeak :rip:)

But yeah hopefully she switches things up for the next rollout because this formula is so boring and shes done this for 5 projects in a row now :rip:
I guess its understandable that she doesnt want to move since shes been on tour and needs to rest now but obviously its not like releasing a single or an album trailer/whaever would require much effort :rip:

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11 minutes ago, TaylenaStan said:

anything below 1.5M is a BOMB

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20 minutes ago, Post Malone said:

Yeah the couple months of silence before Midnights felt much more tense with anticipation than this time around. But I trust in mother to have some tricks up her sleeve to start building up hype towards the release soon

 

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we had 1989 threads about ariana new album "not having hype" and one week before, not still 6 weeks before  :nuts:

 

You should understand what Taylor already understood: in the era of streaming you release, if something makes people talk about it it smashes, doesn't need promotion in the right moment, just think 2 months before.

 

Who saw Kanye and Beyoncè to have 2 big hits like that the day before the release? Well actually they both were infact surprise releases. 

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Why are you always so pressed? Just calm down.

 

 

anyway, I usually don’t listen to albums in full from start to finish but spread it across few days to let different songs grow on me etc. But with this one I think I will go song by song 

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1 hour ago, stupidjock said:

Why are you always so pressed? Just calm down.

 

 

anyway, I usually don’t listen to albums in full from start to finish but spread it across few days to let different songs grow on me etc. But with this one I think I will go song by song 

I know a guy that has the weirdest listening experience i’ve ever heard :rip: he listens to one song of the album and repeats it until he’s tired of it and goes onto the next one and so on. I think he still hasn’t heard the entirety of evermore and Red TV :deadbanana4:

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1 hour ago, Feanor said:

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They're right. If it is below 1.5 M, it's over for us. We swifities need to pack and left here immediately before getting dragged to the hell :khalyan2:

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2 hours ago, Feanor said:

I don't see as much hype for this as there was for 'Midnights' and social media engagement on her variants reveals have also been noticeably worse than for '1989 (TV)', so methinks this won't make it to 1.6M

 

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If you really believe any of what you just wrote here then idk what to tell you. This album has far more hype and will sell more too. Maybe one day y’all will learn to stop underestimating her, I thought a re-recording outdoing Midnights would’ve stopped that with TS11, but here we are yet again… same cycle every time

 

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Just the notion that her first brand new studio album release in the Swiftmania era, also her first breakup album in 12 years, has less hype than Midnights (which was released in 2022 when her already-huge popularity was a fraction of what it is now, don’t forget it’s not just the Eras Tour but Midnights which skyrocketed it to these levels) is SENDING me

 

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4 hours ago, MidnightsAtPeace said:

Prediction for TTPD debut units: 

450k CDs

850K Vinyls

20K Cassettes 

Digital Sales 250K

SEA 430K

 

Total: 2M

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I fear you're underestimating the SEA :suburban:

 

Midnights debuted with 438k and TTPD is gonna take a metal baseball bat and demolish every single one of Midnights' statistics here :suburban:

 

If TTPD doesn't debut with 500k in SEA, it's a catastrophic, career-ending flop and we ought to all just go stan someone else :suburban:

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2 hours ago, Feanor said:

I don't see as much hype for this as there was for 'Midnights' and social media engagement on her variants reveals have also been noticeably worse than for '1989 (TV)', so methinks this won't make it to 1.6M

 

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I fear the girls were too busy sprinting to her website to buy the variants before they sold out, and thus forgot to hit like on the tweet. Considering the monumental amount of discourse Taylor has attracted in the past 2 months (even if it's not all explicitly about this album) it's a tad naive to not assume that everyone will be tuning in. 

 

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31 minutes ago, Dear Reader said:

I know a guy that has the weirdest listening experience i’ve ever heard :rip: he listens to one song of the album and repeats it until he’s tired of it and goes onto the next one and so on. I think he still hasn’t heard the entirety of evermore and Red TV :deadbanana4:

Well of course, with evermore I fear you'd get stuck on Gold Rush, TTDS, or Tolerate It and get stuck forever, since they're all literally impossible to get sick of 

 

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Not being as commercial as Midnights wouldn't be an issue, especially for first week, let's remember THE album that started her streaming success and all Swiftmania 

 

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1 minute ago, wastedpotential said:

Well of course, with evermore I fear you'd get stuck on Gold Rush, TTDS, or Tolerate It and get stuck forever, since they're all literally impossible to get sick of 

 

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He goes back and forth on albums, I really think it’s messy

 

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Just now, Popboi. said:

Not being as commercial as Midnights wouldn't be an issue, especially for first week, let's remember THE album that started her streaming success and all Swiftmania 

 

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Period. None of these 2M predictions would even be on the table without THEE folklore. 

 

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6 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

I fear the girls were too busy sprinting to her website to buy the variants before they sold out, and thus forgot to hit like on the tweet. Considering the monumental amount of discourse Taylor has attracted in the past 2 months (even if it's not all explicitly about this album) it's a tad naive to not assume that everyone will be tuning in. 

 

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Discourse is not always beneficial, as this lady right in this gif proved…

 

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2 minutes ago, Popboi. said:

Not being as commercial as Midnights wouldn't be an issue, especially for first week, let's remember THE album that started her streaming success and all Swiftmania 

 

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Her most streamed album ever, also known as 'Godver'?

 

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4 minutes ago, Feanor said:

Discourse is not always beneficial, as this lady right in this gif proved…

 

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I mean considering that PF2 was headed for a tragique debut before her personality intervened on her behalf and got it over the 200k mark, it worked out alright 

 

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Now... the longevity is a different story

 

 

Anyway, returning to the topic at hand, how many sales are the numbers girls here estimating for each variant? In my head it seems like they're somewhere in the 150-200k range each, but I'd love to hear y'all's thoughts. 

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