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I agree that if the first 2 singles of Lover would've been different it would've been way bigger
And FYI, Taylor is the better foreign artist popularity wise. Adele had to starve her fans with 25 to get more sales. Taylor regularly releases content and can still sell alot
The amount of Hatred towards Taylor Swift in her own article says alot about her success. Constant 10m sellers, immensely popular hits, outselling other main singers, which in turn infuriates their inner sour losers. Taylor is only gaining more success with all of your hatred. So if you're gonna mention people like Adele or The Beatles, then stay jealous. No one is listening to you aside from the 7 people that upvoted your silly comment
Hi Sonique!
As I said in the previous message, I don't think they will, the Beatles remain so strong and their organic cross over appeal is larger, but then only tell will tell how long BTS are able to keep scoring these incredible sales.
Thank you, MJD, for the response.
At their current sales capabiltiy, how many years would it take for them to surpass The Beatles? I hope you could this one. ❤️
Sonique, there are no answers to these kind of questions, you keep asking. You're basically asking us to tell you what is going to happen in the future and as I'm sure you are well aware, none of us humans have that ability lol
You can't even predict things, when you are aiming so far in the future, certainly within an industry that changes so much. In 1989 most would not have even contemplated file sharing or downloading, let alone streaming, yet within only 20 years they were both a reality and completely changed and killed the traditional sales model of the industry.
On top of that, no one can tell how popular or unpopular an artist will be in 20, 30 or 50 years. Take the examples of say Queen and Madonna and looking back at say 1991 (30 years ago) no one could have guessed the current popularity of these two acts today.
I could be wrong, as I am only surmising, but the problem I see with BTS popularity in the very long run, is their fan base. The Beatles fan base seems to encapsulate all demographics, which I do not think is the case with BTS (which seem to be very predominately female and a teenager or child) Not only that, but their main fan base could wither as years go by and children and teenagers grow up. What infatuated them in their younger years may not in their 20s, 30s, 40s etc.
Just wondering because at the rate of how they're going right now, they might possibly surpass Taylor Swift who, based on your analysis, is currently the biggest act to debut this century.
You've been studying legacy acts so I presumed that you could make rough estimates of how many years it would for a certain act to surpass one. But as you said it would be difficult to do that as no one can really predict the future. My apologies for asking repeatedly
Yes, you can predict things but with so many unknown variables, there is absolutely no way possible to get a picture of what will happen that far into the future.
Take the Madonna and Queen analogy, in 1991 I quite simply could not have seen or told you how their careers would pan out and where they'd be at in 2021, based on their respective careers and popularity up until that point. Nobody knew she'd say or do the things that would affect her popularity so much and nobody knew Queen would have a musical, a blockbuster film, go on tours with various vocalists etc and become arguably the most popular legacy act.
It's pointless predicting how things will look in 30 years and basing it on how things are now, because as shown above, all the unknown variables can have a massive impact on things and change the landscape considerably.
Right now, Taylor Swift is unmatched. She currently has 5 10m albums which makes her the Female Solo Artist with the most amount of 10m sales albums and overall, only behind Eminem. And right now, she's doing Alternative which captured the attention of the Alt community. And while the Alt community aren't huge pure sales contributors, they are streaming masters. So this just adds up to Folklore and Evermore's sales. BTS right now dominates K-pop sales. But partnered with Pop Artists, they don't have any chance with winning. Especially a huge artist like Taylor Swift.
While I do think BTS does great in sales, I don't know why their fandom has this optimistic view of beating literal industries like Taylor Swift. And they might catch up with people like Selena Gomez, they can't catch up with some older gen artists
I think you need to recheck just how well BTS are doing and have done. Your whole post just seems rather biased towards Swift and anti BTS.
Also, where are you getting your info from. Swift does not have 5 10m selling albums, she probably has two, Fearless and 1989 and she is not currently the female with the most, as Madonna currently has 5 10m+ selling albums and Dion and Carey have 4.
Not gonna lie, I am a K-pop fan and BTS has made a huge impact on me liking K-pop. They are big masters and I can't deny that. If anything, I freely know it. But the thing is, I'm just saying what is actually real here. BTS has already surpassed many pop artists but Taylor isn't one of them. Maybe in terms of how big the fanbase is then yes, BTS has more fans than Taylor. But Taylor has always been an Album Seller and that's what her fambase specializes in the most. Quite similar to Adele's fanbase. How would Taylor Swift even be able to catch up with older gen artists sales if it weren't for her big reputation of being an album master? I think BTS however, specializes in fans and streaming. In terms of streaming, if you put any artist against BTS, it's BTS who will win in the end (especially in YT views holy whattt) but I'm just saying. Taylor is undefeated in album sales and will forever be. The End. I'm not anti BTS. I'm a fan actually.
And Taylor is actually tied between them. I know she doesn't have the most (technically) because she is tied. But right now, in probability, Taylor is the artist who will most likely get the first 6th 10m selling album lol. And I got that source from this website and not with any other website
