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The UK part started yesterday. According to the papers, the British have gone completely crazy about Taylor. History is indeed being made now. More than a million people at UK gigs. According to Sun, the average ticket price is £240 and rising. The guy who handled Michael Jackson's business affairs says that Taylor is
in a league of her own. Many people want to be involved just to witness history.
Shouldn't believe everything you read in the papers, the hyperbole is ridiculous. Britain didn't come to a standstill yesterday, with the whole country going into meltdown because of her. Most probably weren't even aware she was playing in Edinburgh.
Martina and his various ways to discredit Taylor. Weren't you the one who said she doesn't feature in mainstream articles or something mnths back and now when she doesn't, you find another excuse. Another bbc article said her tour has 11 million tickets sold with near 2 billion usd sales. Isn't bbc big ? First she doesn't seem as big like previous gen and now media is creating hyperbole..pick a struggle martin at this point
We also compare then original big four divas sales with previous gen divas and how they went ahead of them. Then that was ridiculous too. If comparison existed for previous gen to elevate original big four over previous generations, it can be applied to Taylor's generation too. You can't have both ways
They r the official music bodies. Not you. So in end their words are the official ones. ✔️
Music industry take those organisations as serious and those organisations are national bodies run by government. Should I take ur opinion over them hon?
So it was applied to pre Beatles era too when singles was the king. Then wasn't it unfair that mtv gen artists outsold previous gen artists. I remember prev gen couldn't digest Madonna coming out of nowhere and slaying charts and ruling mtv. It is always the old nostalgia fans who doesn't want to accept change. More consumption is reaching far more audience now. That is why equivalence is important
We are counting the value of whole album from thousands of streams and tens of downloads. Weightage is the way to go. Current artists suffered from piracy and this is how industry was saved by streaming and brought the concept of album back again.
I don't see the problem. Lana del rey albums underperform initially but slowly people discovered her music and she was second most consumed women last year behind Taylor. Streaming has changed the game of catalog sales. Many albums can be flop initially but in retrospect they become classics and keep selling. I don't see the problem. Catalog is most important thing in era of streaming.
The press around her in the UK has definitely picked up over the past year, before that, what I wrote was correct
No it wasn't and the thing is now you are calling it hyperbole. And finding excuses. Learn to give credit first
No, as we were still measuring the same thing, music sales. The industry has changed over the years from singles, to vinyl albums, cassettes, then CDs etc but all were consumed in the same manner, all were recorded in the same manner. This is completely different, we are not measuring like for like anymore, why cant you see orr appreciate this?
Our governments are official organisations and I certainly do not believe in or trust everything they do or say.
Streaming hasn't changed the game, it's a completely new game, a different game.
I think streaming is a far better and for the most part transparent method, certainly Spotify but that's not the point, the point is, it's not sales. It's great for comparing current artists consumption but not against older artists, who operated under a completely different model.
And put this nostalgia crap to one side, it's nothing to do with nostalgia or not accepting change. I can accept change, like change in singles to albums etc, it's pretending that there is no change and we are measuring like for like, that I have a problem with.
And it's not broughht back the concept of the album, it has effectively killed the album.
It is hyperbole, the whole country did not go crazy yesterday, it's about being honest, why say the country went crazy about her yesterday, when it quite clearly didn't.
