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Move over Madonna, there's a new Queen of Pop, and her name is Taylor Alison Swift. Not long now until Miss Swift becomes the biggest female artist of all time.
Taylor's already in "Elvis/Beatles/Michael Jackson" territory, and she's only getting bigger!
Maybe not all of Britain went crazy, but Swift easily sets records for attendance and box office. 1.2 million people and the price of a concert ticket approx. 250 euros. 2009-2010 Michael Jackson was supposed to perform 50 times in London at the O2 arena. 750,000 tickets would be sold at a price of 50-75 pounds. These are probably the biggest businesses in the
British concert economy. Everyone can calculate the turnover, Swift will do 15 concerts in the UK.
Billie eilish is nearly as big as her. Her spotify streams with 10 songs are really impressive
Absolutely nobody believes this to be true. Taylor is moving 40m album units a year, Billie is having a successful era on Spotify with massive assistance from Spotify’s autoplay feature. Two very different leagues.
Of course Billie Eillish is bigger than that, but indeed not really close to Swift. Though actually she's closer than any artist the last 2 years, which says a lot about the 2 artists
So some editor here for his comments backfired and now deleting all replies because he can't digest realty. Touring to over million people in his country. Mainstream media going crazy. Shattering records. But he can have his grannies carta and neighbours not knowing Taylor to pat his fragile ego
Hi Adyspeakstruth!
I am the one who deleted your replies, simply because they were disrespectful - on top of being incredibly boring. This place is not for childish fights. Just comment on Taylor Swift's results. As soon as you get into replying each and everyone to "defend" your fave, spamming the messages like crazy, your posts are not welcome. You and Martin already made this conversation mostly unreadable for everyone, just accept to agree to disagree.
Billie has 3 albums plus an EP. You really think it's fair to compare their yearly units?
You need to look by specific eras.
Billie has just released a 10 track album and she is beating Taylor on most charts WW. Her album is no1 over TTPT in many countries.
Taylor is currently bigger, but Billie is very close to her in many parts of the world like Europe and Latin America where her album has a much higher average streams per track.
Taylor only has a clear lead in Asia, UK and USA.
More like you're looking at specific metrics to try and form some sort of argument to discredit Taylor as some weird coping mechanism shtick. Once you look at what matters, the big picture, there's a 160M CSPC gap between both of them and Taylor isn't slowing down anytime soon. In fact, she's going to gain nearly Billie Eillish total units two years in a row. So no, she's not nearly as big and stop setting her up. You don't care for Billie Eilish who, yes, is indeed very successful and has great music.
It's always the same group of people, every single taylor release, who hold on to dear life to another very popular female artist and then drop her once she's not able to keep up with Taylor Mania. We saw it with Ariana, Adele, Olivia, SZA and now I suppose it is Billie's turn.
Why didn't u delete Martins comments ? Why my only? Didn't he start all this that my dogs and neighbour don't know her so it is not universal as fact? When he got corrected with stats he retorted to attacking too. If u were unbiased. U could've done it both ways!
Why don't u compare Taylor pure sales and download sales with Billie then? Why only streaming which clearly favours streaming era artists like Billie over Taylor who debuted at start of download era. Taylor being artist of 2000s. Its amazing she is most streamed women artist ever. She is around 70 ( 80 million plus bcoz ifpi count Chinese sales as pure ) million pure sales ( 100 million pure one day ) and 180 million downloads. Is Billie eilish even in discussion there? Nope. Now don't cry the disadvantages..same way Taylor was at disadvantage and still smashed streaming era records. So if u gonna play the game, play it fair. Billie has long way to go to match Taylor's longevity and success.
Asia is bigger than Europe and many markets r overtaking Europe. And it is future of music consumption ( present already ). Taylor has countless albums and catalog in year end charts of Europe. Your point? Taylor first ten tracks of trpd done amazing too. Her album released after a.month of ttpd. Ofc it gonna chart higher sherlock. It's funny you ignore pure sales and download success of Taylor and take her streaming era stats which are wonderful by the way.
Ttpd's sales over 8 million worldwide by now in less than two months. What is pure worldwide sales? 3.5 million? One million outside usa
Taylor is a bigger streaming artist than Billie Eillish. Longevity or time in the industry is irrelevant here.
Streaming is most important music consumption now. That's why I compare them in streaming. Asia will never be more important than Europe when majority of most important music markets are in Europe in terms of revenue.
One month is not a lot. Taylor is portrayed by her fans as MJ level but her success in terms of he music is not on par with MJ. MJ wasn't losing to newer artists on charts back when Thriller was released.
And this is with her tour. Imagine if Taylor stopped touring Europe. The album would fall into oblivion on charts.
You ignore that Taylor deputed 11 years before Billie and released 8 more albums. OF COURSE she will gain more units.
You ignore my points about their present success on charts and go off topic because you know I am right.
There is no mania with Taylor. She's just very successful with a very successful tour. Many women experienced her success like Adele, Whitney and Madonna. Taylor has her record setting tour, while the women I mentioned didn't, but they had huge ww hits at their peak as well as massive albums which Taylor can't do.
MJ's Thriller happened in an era where the entire music industry was controlled by five men employed by Sony Music. Things are a bit different now.
"Asia will never be more important than Europe when majority of most important music markets are in Europe in terms of revenue."
Thankfully, Taylor is the richest female musician (From music) in history. Don't worry too much about her revenue!
Anyways, you're making a lot of baseless claims and a lot of imagine if statements which basically sums it all up. Taylor is slaying and you're fuming. Cry about it weirdo
Reputation moved more units than Don't Smile At Me, Lover moved more units than When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go, Folklore moved more units than Happier Than Ever and TTPD will end up with move more units than Hit Me Hard and Soft.
To further destroy whatever delusion you're spewing, Taylor Mania is a thing in real life and Taylor Swift is one of the biggest hit makers in history. with massive albums on top of a single tour bigger than Adele, Whitney and Madonna's entire touring careers.
“OF COURSE she will gain more units”
No, of course not. Madonna is not moving more units than Chappell Roan, U2 is not moving more units than Coldplay, Eminem is not moving more units than Drake and Beyonce is not moving more units than SZA. Having more albums and a longer career does not mean more units. In the music industry the novelty artist is at an advantage.
If that's what you need to tell yourself Jake. Go right ahead 🙂
Most streamed artists on global Spotify on Thursday (Jun. 13, 2024):
#1 @taylorswift13 *
#2 @billieeilish
#3 @sanbenito
#4 @theweeknd
#5 @SabrinaAnnLynn
#6 @Drake
#7 @Eminem
#8 @ferxxo4
#9 @trvisXX
#10 @kendricklamar
*563 days at #1
Real world domination will always prevail all of this
Aisa has already many markets in top ten and it keeps growing .ifpi top ten based on revenue and Taylor is dominant in Europe as well! Asia is present and future of music industry!
No u just use streaming stats where Taylor is most consumed female artist of all time despite her catalog not being available for years. Billie eilish can't compete in other metrics. You just can't take away Taylor's decade old career away from her over all success to give credit to Billie bcoz it doesn't fits Billie consumption and fact is Taylor has decade long career even before streaming took off.. Fact is Taylor success is across every format and it is total eas which matters. If Billie last ten eras like Taylor then we will talk. Not to mention Taylor will be over ,300 million by her 11 eras alone.
Lmao album is month old before Billie released and is already over 8 million worldwide. How it is not mega success ? Have u sold ur brains or what? Taylor is selling massive week after week. And outsold ur Billie darling in most important markets . So u make zero sense. Taylor is still number one artist in world and will move 100 million units in 2023-2024. So yes her overall success, fame fits as biggest artist of generation and century.
Go n cry abt it to ifpi who will declare her world number one artist again. Your personal opinion won't change it. She is clear number one she is indeed biggest artist since mj and Madonna. People here can cry with their selective metrics which makes no sense. When she is clear number one artist in world and whose whole catalog is consumed. Talk to me when ur Billie darling will reach 70 million pure sales and 200 million downloads as well. Fact is Taylor was number one in sales, downloads and now numberone in streaming.
Lmao mj dangerous and other albums were overtaken by so many albums. By that logic he was not number one artist in world ? Taylor album is selling most globally per week and Billie eilish is no where half of 8 million units sold by ttpd!
Taylor without tour was already doing massive numbers in streaming since 2022. Ofc this peak won't last forever. Billie eilish second era was mega disaster with countless flop singles. Let's not even go there. You are fighting a loosing battle. Taylor is most consumed artist in world with most valuable catalog . Queen of streaming sales and downloads. Billie eilish has long way to go . ✔️
Taylor album is number one is usa uk etc so ur point is moot.!
She remains biggest artist in world by massive margin and Billie girlie with her bro isn't even close. Ttpd isnot going to be outsold by that whisperer and her bro
You can use selective criteria to feel gud bcoz u cant beat her overall and her yec albums in 2023 in Europe were without tour. So u made zero.point
