charts discussion Best-selling albums of the 2020s (US): Taylor occupies the top 4, 70% of the top 10

[Comedor]

1 hour ago, wastedpotential said:

Oh Taylor 

 

YES to solo women making up 73% of the list 

Only young girls and gays care about album collectibles and variants. 

[Doctor Dick]

48 minutes ago, family.guy123 said:

OUT of the above list? The above list which is effectively a list of artists with the dumbest fans? Extremely worried and incredibly upset 

Midnights has sold 2.8 million and it's the best-selling of the decade so far, so you're onto something. Gen-Z isn't too familiar with buying albums so the bulk of the best-sellers will be music catering to millennialls or older and since Taylor has a chokehold on many 30+ year olds and Adele on the even older crowd they will sell more pure copies. 

[Doctor Dick]

48 minutes ago, family.guy123 said:

OUT of the above list? The above list which is effectively a list of artists with the dumbest fans? Extremely worried and incredibly upset 

Midnights has sold 2.8 million and it's the best-selling of the decade so far, so you're onto something. Gen-Z isn't too familiar with buying albums so the bulk of the best-sellers will be music catering to millennialls or older and since Taylor has a chokehold on many 30+ year olds and Adele on the even older crowd they will sell more pure copies. 

[Doctor Dick]

56 minutes ago, family.guy123 said:

no not really, it's always been that popular.  pure sales have just fallen far beyond irrelevancy at this point 

Midnights has sold 2.8 million and it's the best-selling of the decade so far, so you're onto something. Gen-Z isn't too familiar with buying albums so the bulk of the best-sellers will be music catering to millennialls or older and since Taylor has a chokehold on many 30+ year olds and Adele on the even older crowd they will sell more pure copies. 

[RoseBud]

4 minutes ago, Doctor Dick said:

 

    A successful triple post !  

[wastedpotential]

25 minutes ago, Comedor said:

Only young girls and gays care about album collectibles and variants. 

Well it's a damn good thing for Taylor that there are several million young girls and gays to be butts-in-seats tour attendees and album consumers 

 

I guess everyone else is getting by with the GeePee streaming a song or two every month, but Taylor clearly no longer needs them 

[Tusk]

2 hours ago, Feanor said:

Not 9 entries in the top 13.

9+1+3= 13

 

She keeps winning. 

[elincomprendid]

1 hour ago, Comedor said:

Only young girls and gays care about album collectibles and variants. 

Well Lover has 0 variants and wasn't released this decade

 

Fearless TV had 0 variants and did it as a re-recordings

 

Im curious how is possible these album outsold Renaissance & Cowboy Carter combined when she has the gays and the versions 

 

OT: She is just so ahead of everyone else, truly a once in a lifetime artist 

[Saint James]

how is Morgan Wallen not there?

[Gov Hooka]

Late stage capitalism, increasingly monopolistic trends, and conspicuous consumption (from a cult like stanbase no doubt) but the pop music version of it. 

[Gorjesspazze9]

Not her taking up the majority of the list. She really is on her own level. 

[piotrert]

the way evermore, a flop for her standards, is still bigger than any other album beside 30 

[slw84]

12 hours ago, Space Cowboy said:

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, an album released in 1977, being the #8 best-selling album in the 2020s is incredible.
 

At this point it is top 3 most iconic and impactful albums of all time, along with Thriller and DSoTM.

Exactly. At first i was like who released an album called rumoues this decade.

 

then it clicked: not Fleetwood Mac dogwalking five generations post initial releaae like that.

 

Whew.  

[family.guy123]

12 hours ago, Saint James said:

how is Morgan Wallen not there?

His sales mainly come from people listening to his music.

[Saint James]

4 minutes ago, family.guy123 said:

His sales mainly come from people listening to his music.

so less than a million people listen to him? flop.

[family.guy123]

2 minutes ago, Saint James said:

so less than a million people listen to him? flop.

That's all it takes to spend 3+ years in the top ten I guess 

 

less popular artists cannot relate