1989 surpassed X
Lover surpassed Fine Line

Speak Now TV sold over 100k on its first day after announcement. This is gonna add few millions to Speak Now.

I think a better comparison would be remastered albums, like The Beatles had in 2009 for example. These reissues you're talking about are much more debatable, even Lady Gaga said The Fame Monster should be treated as her 2nd album, so combining both versions doesn't make sense imo.

Where’s this energy for all the large legacy acts with hundreds (not an exaggeration) of compilations, remasters, etc.

Are Folklore sales updated cus of RSD Folklore: LPSS?

Not yet

Ur acting as if Taylor didn’t release 6 albums in the last 4 years lmao Of course she would have more. 21 alone outsold 1989, Red excluding TV, Reputation combined. Let’s not be delusional

Not Swifties acting as if Taylor didn’t release 6 albums in the last 4 years. Of course she would have more than Adele and other artists. Now let’s compare their
Sales per album

21 outsold Red, 1989 and Rep combined

She’s huge but 75-80% of her sales are from China and US. Now that’s what I call, LOCAL. Swifties should stop acting as if their fave is the biggest when her streams in Asia are only carried by the Philippines Lmao 😜

One look at the Spotify artist charts and you'll see this is pretty misguided. Pure only tells part of the story, grab some more industry knowledge before you bash one of the most global artists of our time as 'local'

An artist releasing albums being a crime and a drag, it's literally her job.

But will 30, Adele's fourth album, outsell Red, Taylor's fourth album?

This makes no sense. Midnights hold's the biggest Spotify debut in multiple Asian countries

Biggest overall Spotify debut: in HK, brazil, malaysia, pakistan, phillippines, portugal, Australia, saudi arabia, singapore, uae, usa, globally, asia, new zealand

Biggest female debut currently: in india, austria, belgium, bulgaria, czechia, cyprus, denmark, estonia, greece, hungary, ireland, latvia, lithuania, luxembourg, romania, slovakia, turkey, united kingdom, canada, egypt, israel, south africa

Biggest female debut at the time of release but since surpassed: mexico, argentina, chile, columbia, costa rica, ecuador, el salvador, guatemala, nicaragua, peru, uruguay, venezuela

Doesn't seem like a local artist to me but some people will always be blinded by their disdain

Taylor is nowhere near as big in India. On ghaana she is 4th most streamed into female. Spotify is irrelevant in India so it means nothing.

Spotify? Irrelevant in India? "With 10 billion streams in January alone, the app has become the country's leader in monthly streams" Nice try! Maybe in 2019 when the app launched

Also, pretty sure she's fourth behind Sia, Camila Cabello and Selena Gomez who got one or two smash hits. Overall, Taylor's discography is much bigger. Similar to Spotify a few years ago when Taylor wasn't the most streamed female artist.

For comparison:

Youtube (last 12 month)
Taylor Swift - 230M
Selena Gomez - 213M
Sia - 208M
Camila Cabello - 108M

Spotify Daily Top Artists India
#40 - Taylor Swift
#118 - Selena Gomez
N/A - Sia
N/A - Camila Cabello

So yes, she's pretty big for a western artist and being fourth is definitely not bad.