other stats BB MidYear: TTPD has the largest gap between the #2 album in a decade

[$ebert]

She's truly the McDonalds of the music industry 

[Taylor fanboy]

2 hours ago, Clarksonator said:

Any chance she'll release reputation TV in time for her to snatch #1, #2 and #3?

This is NOT possible.

 

puta TV is 500K max within the tracking year.

[Popboi.]

1 minute ago, Taylor fanboy said:

This is NOT possible.

 

puta TV is 500K max within the tracking year.

Maybe if it's first day was the end of tracking

[Støned]

Lover improving its rank in 2024. 

 

Her most successful "flop" album indeed.

Edited July 28 by Støned

[Enrique523]

1 hour ago, $ebert said:

She's truly the McDonalds of the music industry 

[Clauss]

A legend!! With two more TV she is there to stay next year as well.

[1989]

Lover getting the last laugh is insane 

[SoldierofLove]

 

So glad she's preventing Morgan from being #1!

[Michael196]

 

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The Sheer Scale of Taylor's Dominance

 

Swift's Tortured Poets Department easily outstripped every other album at the midyear mark, having spent 12 of the 26 weeks of the year so far atop the Billboard 200. But at the midyear mark, its dominance could also be referred to as historic compared to the past 10 years. At 4.66 million equivalent album units, TTPD has outstripped the No. 2 album, Morgan Wallen's One Thing At a Time, by more than double — and nearly triple — the latter's 1.776 million, with a total that's 2.62 times higher than Wallen's album (which, to be fair, was released in March 2023).

 

That's the first time in the past decade that the No. 1 album's first-half total doubled, much less more than doubled, the No. 2 album. The differential between the two, 2.884 million units, is over 1.5 million more than the disparity between any other top two albums over the time period, with 2023 being the only other year the disparity topped 1 million units. (Last year, Wallen's One Thing At a Time came in at 3.312 million units, 1.33 million more than SZA's SOS.) The closest race of the past 10 years? That'd be in 2017 when Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. edged out Ed Sheeran's divide by just 23,000 units at the midway mark.

 

 

Spoiler

 

Edited August 2 by Michael196

[K$Ellie]

I feel like if anything, this era has just proven how a lot of her success is concentrated in just her fanbase 

[Arrows]

4 minutes ago, K$Ellie said:

I feel like if anything, this era has just proven how a lot of her success is concentrated in just her fanbase 

Is that why she had more monthly listeners than any woman in history?

Edited August 2 by Arrows

[K$Ellie]

Just now, Arrows said:

Is that she had more monthly listeners than any woman in history?

didn't billie surpass her with a ten track album recently

[Brikenbur]

1 minute ago, K$Ellie said:

didn't billie surpass her with a ten track album recently

[Hitchhiker]

10 minutes ago, K$Ellie said:

I feel like if anything, this era has just proven how a lot of her success is concentrated in just her fanbase 

I'll take that over the Twitter vibe committee fanbase  

[iamanearthling]

Her downfall is coming.

[BabyBenzz]

6 minutes ago, K$Ellie said:

didn't billie surpass her with a ten track album recently

i dont think y'all realize how monthly listeners work, it has nothing to do with a 30 track album or a 10 track album, it's how many DIFFERENT and UNIQUE listeners listen to at least one of your songs in those 30 days.. take several seats 

[Blade Runner]

12 minutes ago, K$Ellie said:

I feel like if anything, this era has just proven how a lot of her success is concentrated in just her fanbase 

What are you guys even saying anymore? Mental illness. 

[Dear Reader]

of course that the first reply had to be one of them bitter gays discrediting a woman 

 

OT: success 

[K$Ellie]

1 minute ago, Dear Reader said:

of course that the first reply had to be one of them bitter gays discrediting a woman 

 

OT: success 

swifties are just as cringe as taylor with the performative feminism

[Badgalbriel]

15 minutes ago, K$Ellie said:

I feel like if anything, this era has just proven how a lot of her success is concentrated in just her fanbase 

How the hell does that prove that? 

[K$Ellie]

2 minutes ago, Badgalbriel said:

How the hell does that prove that? 

because this album doesn't even have a hit, its like those BTS albums that have millions of sales from their fanbase mass buying

 

meanwhile HMHAS has spent more weeks at #1 on spotify

[Badgalbriel]

2 minutes ago, K$Ellie said:

because this album doesn't even have a hit, its like those BTS albums that have millions of sales from their fanbase mass buying

 

meanwhile HMHAS has spent more weeks at #1 on spotify

Because HMAS was released weeks later.... If they were both released at the same time, HMHAS would've spent 0 weeks at #1...... 

[Michael196]

1 minute ago, K$Ellie said:

because this album doesn't even have a hit, its like those BTS albums that have millions of sales from their fanbase mass buying

 

meanwhile HMHAS has spent more weeks at #1 on spotify

When some of you understand that the sole purpose of singles is to carry the album, but when the album is smashing as a whole that's what matters.

as for your example, almost half of the daily streams are coming from a singular song, which means that the moment that particular song starts to lose steam, it will affect the whole album. 

[Arrows]

23 minutes ago, K$Ellie said:

didn't billie surpass her with a ten track album recently

She surpassed Taylor's current number and is still far away from the record Taylor had during TTPD's release. So, no.

Edited August 2 by Arrows

[Popboi.]

8 minutes ago, K$Ellie said:

because this album doesn't even have a hit, its like those BTS albums that have millions of sales from their fanbase mass buying

 

meanwhile HMHAS has spent more weeks at #1 on spotify

At current rate it would take 5-7 years for HMAHS to have a chance of passing TTPD on Spotify, that's the precious #1 on Spotify you want to talk about?