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A streaming blockbuster album is which should do atleast 4 to 5 billion in year on spotify imo. She has build great catalog and i think she is next 200 million seller unless years down the line her catalog slows down like other female artists. But her peak is gone. Evermore showed it. She will have big initials, but i don't think she will be now having blockbuster albums
Amazing discography though which will pay her in long run. But the way her label and fans inflate her numbers by putting video streams on par with audio streams is funny. They already put her around 130 million eas, which isn't true.
She won't have streaming blockbusters, but she isn't out of her peak. The GP still recognizes her especially in my country. It's not like she's a complete nobody outside of her fanbase. Folklore is still at 2.3b spotify streams and Lover is close to being a "blockbuster album" by your definition at 3.5b streams. She's doing well in streaming. She does amazing in every aspect unlike some who are streaming legends, download legends and sales legends but that's their only limit.
Eminem and adele oustreams her on album basis despite swift releasing 4 albums, recordings since 25. Ur point. ? Taylor wasn't decade into her career when streaming became a thing. Ofc sales legends catalog, which is way older will have less numbers . They destroy her in sales too. So it evens out in end.. A physical single can't compete with a cheap download. So ur point?
Lover 3.5 billion after 2 years isn't blockbuster on streaming.
When it got released at peak of streaming. Ofc in long run , it will get streams. It isn't blockbuster . No matter how much her fans try
Her last album was in 2020. Re-recordings don't count, but she does well with them
And that last 2 album haven't done 3 billion streams each either. So they can't be called streaming blockbusters. A strong fd is really backing her up. No solo global hit in 7 years either. That's why fd is most important in long run. If she goes 1989 way, she can have a big blockbuster on streaming. Folkbore or flopmore not gonna cut it.
She had a global hit in 2017/2018.
Folklore did well, it is the second most successful album by a woman released in 2020 and #7 overall. That's really good for a folk album. It also won album of the year at Grammy's.
Evermore is currently the fourth top selling album in the US, and will do 5 million units in the end. It wasn't a flop despite low streams.
This shows streams aren't everything
Solo hit *. Fifty shades hype made ellie's song even bigger hit than the collab. Yes her era sold good in end, because of reason i give above. Strong fd who mass purchase her albums, which give her millions of head start. But evermore is kind tragic for her standards. If u r true to urself and i talked about streaming blockbuster ( not all formats included )
We all know gp consumption comes with blockbuster album in streaming now. Swift has 4 proper albums during streaming era and none of them can be called an actual streaming blockbuster. Her numbers end up good. Thanks to great fd she has build.
She's actually doing great compared to her peers. It's hard to cross 10M sales (sps) per album now. Despite the decline in sales since 1989, she's more relevant than your faves, b0ts. 50 years from now, people will remember and celebrate her music. Meanwhile, b0ts only legacy is creating fund accounts to inflate sales and manipulate charts, and having a cult-like fandom
Look was a global hit. Look it up.
And her first album to be fully released on streaming services was Lover, so she she had 3 albums fully released in the streaming era actually.
1989 was held back for a long time, and Reputation in the first week so she could build up physical sales.
If 1989 and reputation were released on streaming, they won't have those sales and downloads either. She got huge sales for that. You can't have both at same time. Since she has taken streaming, she has lost of album sales. So u have to factor that too. And look had good initials , but my definition of global hit is huge longevity and having huge numbers in long term. Her last solo actual hits were in 1989 era. So we have to disagree here. So even if reputation lost first week, it had 4 years to do better. And fact remains no album of hers released in streaming era is blockbuster in streaming.
I'm from Asia and the gp don't even know about them except for having annoying fans LMAO They can't even name a song from them. They only know them as a manufactured boy group who are just good looking with zero talent. Only their fans know their music. You're embarrassing yourself. There's no need for an essay, bestie
Tbh I thought she was done for but wow, she's really proved me wrong. She may not have had a real hit in a very long time, but her selling power remains impressive across all formats: sales and streams. Good for her
If you look through sales, BTS is currently bigger for sure. Longevity-wise, taylor will stay relevant for years. Ask a random person and they can name one TS song. Meanwhile, they only associate BTS for having good looking members and having teenage girls ogle over them
i definitely agree, boybands in general have crazy peaks but once they're over they fade away pretty badly. it's just that BTS' peak has been longer than most boybands.
once their hype dies and their fans move on it'll be pretty hard for them to amass sales. Taylor on the other hand not only is a cultural icon that has been around for 15 years she also has classic albums under her belt that'll keep her catalog sales alive for a very long time (1989, Fearless and Red and maybe even folklore)
+ you can't possibly believe that BTS organically sold 1.8m Digital units of Butter in USA in 2021, a song that barely anyone from the general public knows in the country. and Spotify's heavy filtering of the song's debut day streams from +20m to 11m shows how much that song has been mass streamed by their fandom.
they're the epitome of exploiting fans to the last pennie. it might amass them high sales at the moment, but again once those diehard fans move on it's gonna be really tough.
It's funny seeing her having no blockbuster era anymore yet she's the most streamed artist on Spotify daily. Taylor is rising super fast, she will pass Babra and Whitney for sure. She's pulling like 10M+ CSPC every year, and she still has remaining four rerecords to be released + not counting another new studio albums. She's definitely in Top 5 biggest female artist ever, and I'm not surprise if she can surpass Mariah and Celine too.
. lover , folklore are behind in streams because of lack of huge streaming hits .. lover singles performed badly and folklore didn’t had any conventional radio singles and its strength is in it tracks .. it’s already most streamed female album just based on tracks I would count it as success ..
She literally didn’t cared about hits during folklore eras .. neither they had any potential because of their non mainstream sound … since breaking up with BMR she’s doing what she wants and folklore still has 5 mn units in year or so which is incredible however you put or try to discredit her
How’s strong fd a bad thing ? Eminem has strong fd too so by ur point is he also inflated in success??? Lover has 1.8 mn pure sales acc to chartmasters and 7.0 mn units so around 5.2 mn from digital consumption.. she has strong fd isn’t a drag because her audience is still there because of consistent delivery in content and relating to audience just like Eminem ..
No one cares .. she’s getting hit albums over hits with good quality and that’s all that matters .. it speaks to her pull power however u may discredit her that she got 80 m by surprise dropping her album after lover which had no hits and now red tv which u pointed has 30 song lol .. it’s not a excuse for 2 hour long album to be listened in this manner .. besides it’s a re issue of older album too
The high filtering rate shows that it's just the fandom looping the same song. Their char success in the US is through bulk purchasing. Billboard's system is deeply flawed and their fandom is abusing these loopholes. If Billboard only counts 1 copy per version, they probably would never debut/reach #1 in the hot 100
That could be for a variety of reasons though. For one, her career is longer than hers which means her songs have had a longer time to penetrate the public consciousness. Plus, BTS's currently immensely high popularity is pretty new, around 2017/2018 if i had to guess, especially outside of Asian markets. So that might just be a factor of her being popular for longer.
