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Highlights from the Hot 100 this week:
- Taylor holds the entire top 14 of the Hot 100, her second time holding the entire top 10.
- Swift catapults her career top 10's to 59, the most ever for a woman, and second most overall (behind Drake's 77)
- All 31 tracks + CS chart this week on the Hot 100 (most ever tracks in a single week by a woman)
- Swift breaks the record for most songs debuted in a single week (31, previously held by Morgan Wallen with 27)
- Fortnight becomes her 9th Streaming Songs #1 and 29th Digital Song Sales #1
- Fortnight's 76.2m streams marks the top total since YouTube UGC was removed in 2020
- Fortnight becomes her 12th Hot 100 #1, pushing her past Whitney Houston, and trying her with Madonna and the Supremes for the 6th most #1s
- With 7 Hot 100 debuts, Swift ties Ariana Grande for the most amongst women, also tying Drake for the most #1s this decade
- Taylor now boasts a record eight consecutive new albums generating a Hot 100 #1
Anti Hero alone should be enough to counter this statement, what more with Cruel Summer...
I feel like in Europe people like her more as a social media influencer than her actual music. The "she was an album seller" argument makes no sense because people don't buy albums anymore. They streamed & her streaming in Europe is so & so. However she is ridiculously big in the US & Asia though. Bigger than Madonna in my opinion. Madonna always pushes the boundary with the whole shocking people thing & sometimes it backfires. There were times when her album sales drop a lot but she always knew how to make a strong comeback. I don't recall there ever was a time when Taylor's popularity was waning. It is amazing to see her being so consistently massive. Looks like she is going to pass Madonna sales too at some point.
Madonna took a huge hits in America with 1992 (the Sex book) and 2003 (American Life). Truthfully, I think those things impacted her catalogue sales tremendously. I agree with you on Taylor, she's far more popular than Madonna was in Asia. She has sold well in the US since she debuted and now she's selling the way Madonna was in 1987. That's crazy because she's already been selling well for ~15 years!
Anti hero and Cruel Summer failed to go top 10 in major markets like. France, Italy and Germany (Cruel Summer).
MJ and Madonna had hits that went no1 everywhere. They both had AT LEAST multiple no1s in the markets I mentioned.
What's more impressive, they had huge album sales together with huge hits.
This especially the case with MJ. Man had album sales out of this world, and global classics, bigger than Madonna has.
I think Taylor might be on Madonna level though.
Even if Taylor Swift ends her career this year, her sales will increase by 300 EAS within two years. In the finals, only the Beatles stay ahead.
I'm not a fan of Taylor Swift but I have to admit her marketing is brilliant. Social media definitely helps in her case at least. I also am not sure how much it impacted Madonna's catalogue with the sex book & all. But I remember people viewed her as a crazy woman at that time. Lots of people hated her. Taylor never had any negative publicity to that extent. She built a very positive image & it works well with her audience. Honestly I feel like the whole shocking people thing ala Madonna, Britney, Christina, Miley, Lizzo, etc is no longer relevant. It used to be relevant but these days since everybody is doing it, it gets boring. Maybe they should start looking at the Taylor Swift model.
Her success is truly impressive, but a serious question. Which songs of hers are real signature songs that everyone will still know years and decades from now?
love story, shake it off, blank space, you belong with me, i knew you were trouble, we are never ever getting back together, anti hero, cruel summer, look what you made me do, style, wildest dreams, bad blood, 22, lover as a wedding classic. so a few…
I don’t get this obsession with taylor not having a widely known lasting hit, all these were long charting, radio played, highly streamed/dowloaded.
granted she does have a lot of songs that peak high originally and immediately drop off the charts and are likely not know, but that doesn’t take away from the fact she’s had many that do last.
I'd say:
Our Song (in the US)
Love Story
You Belong With Me
Enchanted
I Knew You Were Trouble
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Shake it Off
Wildest Dreams
Blank Space
Style
Delicate
Don't Blame Me
Lover
Cruel Summer
cardigan
august
Anti-Hero
I believe many other songs are pervasive in culture as well but am less sure the average person would know (All Too Well, Getaway Car, champagne problems, YOYOK)
She sets record in streaming in Europe and all Europe markets. So ur point abt her streaming being so so is not right
Quite clearly, it's impossible to say in the long run. I'm not a fan and clearly not in the demographic that she is aiming at, but I'd struggle to tell you the title of any of her songs, if you played them to me. As huge and successful as she is, I'm not sure her tracks will become songs that everyone knows, as while she has an absolutely insane fanbase, I personally don't think her music hugely crosses over to non fans/general public, but that could also be a geographical thing, as I'm presuming that her music is far more known to say the US general public than perhaps the UK or European general public.
I think since the introduction of streaming into chart compilation, a lasting/long charting hit doesn't always translate into a widely known hit. Also, with so many different radio stations these days and so many genre specific or decade(s) radio stations, it's wholly possible to never come across a Swift track, depending on what stations you tune into.
surely you’d know at the very least the big three of shake it off, blank space, love story. though im younger i’ve never encounter a person same age or younger who does not at least know these