base talk Is "Birds of a Feather" bigger than any Taylor single from her last 4 albums?

[wish]

BOAF is 100% bigger than Anti-Hero. What are y'all smoking?

 

BOAF will certainly be up there with Cruel Summer as some of the biggest global pop girl hits of recent years.

[Calvin]

47 minutes ago, YellowRibbon said:

All I'm gonna say is... Don't play with Taylor's catalogue, she could pull another Cruel Summer moment out of nowhere

My boy breaks --- waiting for the right moment. 

[Blue Monday]

2 hours ago, newaespa said:

Hmm not sure

Massive massive autoplay (and the fact it is STILL ongoing)

massive massive tiktok promotion

You guys can't keep hiding behind this; it's smashing on Apple Music. It's pretty evident that people love the song 

[laqqinq]

BOAF is bigger than the other singles mentioned. Globally, it's probably bigger than AH, but in terms of the US charts and stats, AH might be bigger.

[LastGreatBloodline]

y'all are tripping, BIRDS OF A FEATHER is clearly bigger than Anti-Hero

[UnusualBoy]

CS is still quite ahead, but it will catch up to AH.

[Eternium]

8 hours ago, Kiss It Better said:

yes, but i would say it's on par with Cruel Summer WW which both are bigger than Anti Hero WW 

This will be the hard part. Cruel Summer had intense radio play backing it up to keep it afloat which made it a smash in the U.S. BOAF is going to need to maintain radio play through April 2025 at the very least to catch up. 
 

2023 Year-End (year-end ended two weeks early):

#18. Cruel Summer - 3,501 [2.18M units, 1.03B airplay]
 

2024 Year-End (through week 50]:

#12. Cruel Summer - 5,134 [2.9M units, 1.74B airplay]
#19. Birds of A Feather - 3,843 [3.25M, 0.46B]

 

Cruel Summer managed 5.08M units and 2.77B airplay while on the charts. Birds of A Feather can outdo it in units, but airplay seems incredibly hard.

8 hours ago, sasashite said:

Taylor last 4 albums are all bigger than Billie's recent one.

That's because Taylor has re-released her albums how many times? TTPD has tons of variants and already has a re-release and tons of different versions with unique tracks. HMHAS has a second version (adding an extended mix to the tracklist) and that's it. Not even counting variants, TTPD has almost 50 tracks and over 20 different versions. It's a playlist and not even an album at this point.

18 minutes ago, LastGreatBloodline said:

y'all are tripping, BIRDS OF A FEATHER is clearly bigger than Anti-Hero

Not yet, but it will be. Global charts of the 2020s as of 9/26: 

 

32. Anti-Hero - 9,217

47. Birds of a Feather - 7,544 (+400)

 

BOAF will easily surpass Anti-Hero, but Cruel Summer will be hard.

 

https://talkofthecharts.org/global-chart-hits-2020s

 

 

[loliza]

Yes, birds of a feather is still doing 7 millions so i'd say it's bigger than cruel summer too 

[John Slayne]

yes and idk why people bring up Anti-Hero when BOAF is outstreaming it with ease 

[naval23]

Globally 100%. BOAF is serving longevity and high peaks while Anti Hero and Cruel Summer had low top 10 peaks outside of the US.

 

[l3disko]

no its not.

[IVY]

Can't remember what was Taylor's last organic big hit, they always make her hits bigger than what they actually are. 

Edited 3 hours ago by IVY