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Canada to remove names from "Victims of Communism" memorial after 300+ ties to nazis
"Victims of communism" is such a slippery slope topic because basically all people who fought against communism in the 30s and 40s were fascist or fascist affiliated... There are a lot of points you can make about how communism was horrible but glorifying people who fought against it especially during the interwar/WW2 period is not the wisest move to say the least
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Does holiday music get bigger every year? When does it plateau, if ever?
I'm not sure if this is due to loss of interest on christmas music or just that Spotify removed the APK streams and also changed it's algorithm and autoplay rules, the most random songs would do 10m for days while this never happened this year
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*** FOR TAT didn't become a smash hit, why?
Ugh. Didn't think that word would be censored.
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*** FOR TAT didn't become a smash hit, why?
*** FOR TAT broke Tate's record for biggest daily and weekly debut on Spotify, it became her highest solo debut on the hot 100 at #3, and made a lot of noise on social media due to the song allegedly being about her relationship with Kid Laroi, the song was shaping up to be a massive hit for her, maybe on the level of greedy. However after 53 days the song is outside the Top 100 on Spotify Top 200 chart at #107, below Sports car and Just Keep Watching, and is just 53k streams away from being outstreamed by greedy. Why didn't this song become a much bigger hit like it seemed it would?
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Female eras 10+ years in with most Top 10 weeks on Billboard (BB200 + Hot 100)
WTF?
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Billie Eilish
Billboard Global 200 BOAF - #24 (+2) WILDFLOWER - #44 (+1) Ocean Eyes - #101 (+11) lovely - #155 (+18) CHIHIRO - #197 (RE)
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Billie bounced back. What went right?
We can bring up Billboard Global 200, which not only counts streams for nearly every streaming platform worlwide but also filters spotify autoplay by counting them as free streams instead of paid ones, BOAF spent 58 weeks top 10 there and WF is still top 45 even with Taylor's album bomb, unless ofc, Billie is so powerful she's able to manipulate streams in every single streaming platform
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First week SEA units of MPGs latest albums (US only; no physical)
Lana resurgence happened some time after Ocean Blvd though, Ocean Blvd (song), A&W and Candy Necklace debuted with 2m each when they dropped but Henry Come On debuted with 3,3m this year despite it's only promotion being an IG post, her next album will have a much better debut
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Taylor Swift is causing mass psychosis on TikTok, why?
This is the merch she's talking about by the way
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Taylor Swift is causing mass psychosis on TikTok, why?
This video of this woman unironically calling Taylor Swift a nazi apologist for doing merch with a necklace with some lightning bolts has over 650k likes, they're accusing her of putting the lightning bolts as a reference to SS, and then the symbol in the bottom is another reference to an iron cross. This... crazy reach has hundreds of thousands of people agreeing with it, with many of the top comments having over 100k likes each too. What's causing this insanity regarding this album rollout?
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Taylor dragged for bad songwriting; goes mega viral on Tiktok
Tbh the hate for TTPD/Midnights felt kinda exclusive to twitter out of the main social media platforms, this time around I'd argue it's even worse on TikTok than Twitter which is crazy since they were absolutely obsessed (in a good way) with her in 2023-2024
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Will Taylor Swift's next chart goal now be surpassing Mariah Carey's 19 #1 hits?
I mean... Yes she can do it, but I'm not sure if she's that invested in doing it, she's probably going back to an album every 2 years so I'm guessing it's going to take a bit over a decade until she reaches 19 #1's, also I doubt this album can get another #1 with this album because Ophelia is shaping up to be such a big hit no other song (even a second single by her) will displace it for a good time (other than the christmas songs)
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Gracie Abrams like IG post shading Taylor Swift.
The I Love You, I'm Sorry singer liked an IG post of an influencer making fun of Taylor Swift songwriting and saying that she victimizes herself by saying her friends have betrayed her every single day of her life, this same influencer has made multiple videos insulting Taylor, including one where she says she's homophobic for writing Actually Romantic. What could have made the Eras Tour opener have such a huge shift regarding Taylor?
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Will Taylor be able to break Janet's record of 18 consecutive Hot 100 top 10 singles?
If we just put "singles" as songs that were sent to radio in any format then Taylor last single to not peak in the top 10 was The Alcott in 2023, and then she'd be at 7 right now (Karma-CS-****!-IION?-Fortnight-ICDIWABH-Ophelia)
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Does Billboard need to ban non-singles from charting on the Hot 100?
How would banning non singles solve this?