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She hit a new peak on Google Trends, surpassing that of Adele and Lady Gaga. Very impressive!
It truly seems like she is on her way to have her biggest year so far, and it probably won't even be close.
Cruel Summer's longevity and stability are extremely insane. It's still doing 4M+ daily Spotify streams and starts to repeak once again after The Eras Tour in Japan and Australia. It's coming for Top 5 most streamed female song on the platform, heck I don't even reject the possibility for it to dethrone Dance Monkey (2.994B streams as of Feb 18).
It even has a hope to eventually pass Blinding Lights, not this year, but if it doesn't slow down in the next 2 years.
That song even didn't bigger in south Korea, and ASEAN how can Cruel Summer beat Blinding Lights?
Wait till Adele release her new album, she can take back her corwn from Taylor.
I can't tell if you're trolling or not but i'll take the bait. Cruel Summer is one of the biggest western hits in ASEAN of recent memory.
Now Taylor Swift has made more money from touring than Madonna and Michael Jackson combined. Before Asian and Ocean tours, Pollstar billings were 1,95 billion dollars. After Grammy parties, she flew directly to Japan and did 4 concerts in a row, together 220 000 persons and then 3 concerts in a row in Melbourne, a total of 288 000 persons.
She sold 19 million albums in US only year 2023, at the beginning of march IFPI will announce global sales.
Eras tour movie was all time biggest concert film.
200 million dollars were generated by side sales at concerts.
Not everyone believes these results. Lipstick Alley, which is mostly black channel think they are fake numbers. Or that it is many times easier for a white woman to succeed than a black woman. Moreover they sensitively bring up the racism card. They would forget racism expecially in music.
Billy Joel said that Beatles are the only ones she can be compared to.
Lipstick Valley total members: 497,829
Taylor Swift Followers Gained on Spotify (Last 7 days): 592,147
I mean... Who cares?
I'm from southeast Asia since when was blinding lights more popular than cruel summer... Blinding lights was popular for a much longer time yes but once cruel Summer's time is over we'll know which was more popular
Two songs in ifpi top ten chart #7 cruel summer and #9 anti hero. First time in her career she landed two songs in top ten in single year. Cruel summer will make 2024 chart too the way it is going. If new albums song becomes hit. She might end up with two songs in yec again. So much for not many hits according to one specific person here.
She also ties Lady Gaga as the female artist with most top 15 entries with six each. All of Lady Gaga's entries are Top 10 but impressive nonetheless
Top 15 on the IFPI
Love Story #6
Shake It Off #14
Blank Space #7
I Don't Wanna Live Forever #11 (Highest song by a female artist from 2017)
Anti-Hero #9
Cruel Summer #7
Not to mention in download era. Songs sold most in first few months. And Taylor releasing in August harmed her enteries because her sales got split over two years.
Taylor Swift's Billboard 200 entries ranked by weeks top 10 ( as of December 11 , 2021 ):
1. 59, 1989
2. 58, Fearless
3. 20, Folklore
4. 18, Lover
5. 17, Taylor Swift
5. 17, Red
7. 15, Speak Now
8. 12, Reputation
9. 11, Evermore
10. 4, Fearless (TV)
11. 3, Red (TV)
12. 2, Beautiful Eyes
Total: 236 weeks
Taylor Swift’s Billboard 200 entries ranked by weeks top 10 ( as of March 1 , 2024 ):
1. 68 , Midnights
2. 60, 1989
3. 58, Fearless
4. 54, Lover
5. 30, Folklore
6. 17, Taylor Swift
7. 17, Red
8. 17 , 1989 (TV)
9. 15, Speak Now
10. 12, Reputation
11. 11, Evermore
12. 9 , Speak Now (TV)
13. 9, Red (TV)
14. 4, Fearless (TV)
15. 2, Beautiful Eyes
16. 1 , Folklore : Long pond studio sessions
Total: 384 weeks ( All time record ahead of The Beatles ( 382 weeks ))
Great achievement but we also have to factor that billboard didn't allow catalog albums to chart for decades. So comparison gets skewed by that
Maybe . On the other side , Taylor Swift have much weaker competitors than The Beatles had .
Also , She's the only artist with 4 albums being 1 year in top 10 ( 52+ weeks ) . No one have more than 1 album with this achievement . Next week Morgan Wallen will be the 2-nd artist with 2 albums .
It seems that Country's popularity is high again, thanks to e.g. For Swift. Morgan Wallen sold massive amounts of his music. There have been other names as well. A healthy trend, the melody is also important.
But were a lot of catalog albums having residencies in the Top 10 that lasted more than 18 months and were then removed?
