Taylor Swift's 'Fearless' re-release moved 500k copies in 24 hours, scores biggest Spotify debut of 2021

[Blackout2006]

2 hours ago, mythology said:

Sis that was over 2 decades ago.  Taylor had much more success with her albums, selling millions of each on the first week alone.  Taylor's album sales are much more impressive and consistent, and this is coming from someone who can't stand the 

Ah yes, having 5 albums with over a million sales (which were mostly fueled from her not including her albums on Spotify in its first week) yet none of them surpassed Oops!...I Did It Again first week sales  

 

[Look But Don't Touch]

2 hours ago, mythology said:

Sis that was over 2 decades ago.  Taylor had much more success with her albums, selling millions of each on the first week alone.  Taylor's album sales are much more impressive and consistent, and this is coming from someone who can't stand the *****

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im literally crying rn 

[NobodyKnowsPete]

20 hours ago, dr35 said:

Taylor Swift's re-release of Fearless (Taylor's Version) shifted 500,000 units globally, in just 24 hours. This marks her 9th album to debut with 500k.

27 songs, including vaulted tracks never heard by the public, this could easily move over a million by weeks end!

Fearless (Taylor's Version) also has the biggest debut on Spotify in 2021, surpassing Justin Bieber's new album Justice.

thoughts? How big will ‘Fearless’ be?

 

I think Taylor can fart 💨 and send 500k. Congratulations.

[redacted statement]

1 hour ago, Blackout2006 said:

Ah yes, having 5 albums with over a million sales (which were mostly fueled from her not including her albums on Spotify in its first week) yet none of them surpassed Oops!...I Did It Again first week sales  

 

In terms of sales, you can't really compare the early 00s to the digital era, though. BOMT was the 2nd best-selling album of 1999 (in the US, of course). Oops was the 3rd best-selling album of 2000. Even though Britney has 2 Diamond-certified albums, she has never had the best-selling album of any year. Taylor has had the best-selling album of 5 separate years, and she did that as a female beating some of the biggest male artists in the industry:

• Fearless (2009)
• 1989 (2014)
• reputation (2017)
• Lover (2019)
• folklore (2020)

Furthermore, she got a Diamond certification in the digital era with Fearless, which only the biggest of the biggest artists have achieved. If you don't wanna acknowledge 2009 as being part of the digital era, then consider 1989 because it's very close to being Diamond-certified (9x Platinum) even though it was released in 2014. Not to take away from other people's success, but, in my humble opinion, getting a Diamond certification post 2005ish is more impressive than pre 2005ish. If you look at the list of Diamond-certified albums, 97% of them were released in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and early 00s. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the only pop girls who've managed to get a Diamond certification post 2005 are Taylor and Adele.  Britney was definitely bigger as a global phenomenon and pop culture icon, but in terms of sales Taylor wins, IMO. 

[DearBritney00]

Imagine what 1989 (TV) will do. Earth is shaking when it comes out.

[Blackout2006]

25 minutes ago, iAlwaysSingLive said:

In terms of sales, you can't really compare the early 00s to the digital era, though. BOMT was the 2nd best-selling album of 1999 (in the US, of course). Oops was the 3rd best-selling album of 2000. Even though Britney has 2 Diamond-certified albums, she has never had the best-selling album of any year. Taylor has had the best-selling album of 5 separate years, and she did that as a female beating some of the biggest male artists in the industry:

• Fearless (2009)
• 1989 (2014)
• reputation (2017)
• Lover (2019)
• folklore (2020)

If I am not wrong however, these are the sales for the US? I was honestly talking about international sales, rather than US sales, since selling over 5 million copies with an album outside of the US is more impressive rather than selling 5 million copies in the world biggest music market and industry. So from an international point of view, Taylor like Britney, too has never had a best-selling album of the year record so there really isn't a much say in this topic, however, in terms of best selling female albums of the year, they both equally have 3 albums that were the best-selling female albums of their specific years, internationally.

25 minutes ago, iAlwaysSingLive said:

Furthermore, she got a Diamond certification in the digital era with Fearless, which only the biggest of the biggest artists have achieved.

But is it that impressive once you get to know the truth? I mean, with pure copies, Fearless has sold 7.000.000 copies, and the rest that constitutes the album into becoming eligible for diamond was by streaming, and we already know how much of a streaming force Taylor is. However, there is no denying that having sold 7 million copies of a record in an economically bad time for the US is an amazing feat but it still is 3 million copies away from actually being a diamond album. Had it however been a diamond album by actually selling 10.000.000 copies rather than units, I would find it impressive.

25 minutes ago, iAlwaysSingLive said:

Not to take away from other people's success, but, in my humble opinion, getting a Diamond certification post 2005ish is more impressive than pre 2005ish. If you look at the list of Diamond-certified albums, 97% of them were released in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and early 00s. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the only pop girls who've managed to get a Diamond certification post 2005 are Taylor and Adele. 

Definitely true. Considering how badly the market has been affected by streaming, it is rather more impressive selling 10 million copies in a post-2005 era.

25 minutes ago, iAlwaysSingLive said:

Britney was definitely bigger as a global phenomenon and pop culture icon, but in terms of sales Taylor wins, IMO. 

In terms of selling records cohesively, I will have to give it to Taylor but honestly when it comes to sales, I think it is a very neutral situation  since Britney had the benefit of debuting during the pre-streaming era whereas, Taylor had the benefit of debuting in a post-streaming era. You can say in the end, Britney wins as her highest selling record was over 30 million copies, and Taylor's highest selling was 15 million but they both were released in different environments but in my opinion, Britney's sales felt much more authentic

[The Greatest Show]

17 hours ago, IUSM said:

I am not a fan of her country past, but I may listen to it just to compare.

And kudos to her for re-recording her whole discography. She has released 3 albums in less than a year. She is that impressive.

here is a summary comparisson of most songs if you are interested. (timestamps are in the description) the vocals on the slower songs are so good. 

 

[The Greatest Show]

3 hours ago, mythology said:

Sis that was over 2 decades ago.  Taylor had much more success with her albums, selling millions of each on the first week alone.  Taylor's album sales are much more impressive and consistent, and this is coming from someone who can't stand the *****

Also Taylor is a decade into her career and this is a re release of an old album. 

[jordeezy river red]

10 hours ago, AP4 said:

She just decided to do fearless first. I don’t think she gave a reasoning it’s just the one she decided to start with. She’s suppose to re-record them all. 

I have a theory that the debut re-release will be massive because there are sooo many unreleased from that era. 

[jordeezy river red]

Fearless takes me back to another time. A truly great album for someone the age that she was when she released it. Taylor had a genre of her own until she got with Max Martin. 

[Arianna]

So proud of my girl. Want her to kill this weeks sales.

**runs to Target

[Spicechinodiva]

Welp, she's about to break Barbara streisands record, and become the female act with the most #1 albums on the Billboard 200 of all time. Might surpass Jay Z as well at this point. 15 years into her career and nothing has stopped her from going to #1. 

[Wondrous]

4 hours ago, The Greatest Show said:

Also Taylor is a decade into her career and this is a re release of an old album. 

Actually she’s almost sixteen year into her career (god that makes me feel old) 

[Greg_del]

At this point payola is way too obvious 

 

Nobody is listening to her

[AP4]

2 hours ago, jordeezy said:

I have a theory that the debut re-release will be massive because there are sooo many unreleased from that era. 

I hope so. I’ve been a fan since back then. And I love a lot of the songs that never made the cut. Be nice to have them on Apple Music lol 

[IUSAtonight]

The only Taylor albums I've heard are 1989 and reputation, so I'm not really excited about this project but damn that's impressive. I wasn't expecting her success to last this long honestly. 

Honestly Britney rerecording her debut album with modern production would be interesting 

[Tprez]

11 minutes ago, Greg_del said:

At this point payola is way too obvious 

 

Nobody is listening to her

13 years later she stays on top and relevant, unlike the opinion of haters 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Britney'sBish]

7 hours ago, Look But Don't Touch said:

Payola

Exactly, there's just no way that many people are listening if randoms aren't talking about it.

The industry is so transparent at this point.

[Hooked-On-Knee]

12 hours ago, Blackout2006 said:

Truly the Blonde Queen of the 2000s

 

She's a brunette, though.

[Hooked-On-Knee]

8 hours ago, mythology said:

Sis that was over 2 decades ago.  Taylor had much more success with her albums, selling millions of each on the first week alone.  Taylor's album sales are much more impressive and consistent, and this is coming from someone who can't stand the *****

 

6 hours ago, Blackout2006 said:

Ah yes, having 5 albums with over a million sales (which were mostly fueled from her not including her albums on Spotify in its first week) yet none of them surpassed Oops!...I Did It Again first week sales  

 

 

5 hours ago, iAlwaysSingLive said:

Britney was definitely bigger as a global phenomenon and pop culture icon, but in terms of sales Taylor wins, IMO. 

Can we acknowledge the elephant in the room as to why Britney's sales are less consistent though? Mostly because her transitions between Oops!... - In the Zone are a lot less smooth in terms of being able to retain the younger fans/her original fanbase. Taylor released like 3 albums post-debut all slowly leading up to her pop transition but Britney didn't really do that.

Britney (2001) was a transitional album but it wasn't originally intended to be that way, it's just how many of the tracks got scrapped to fuse the albums with the original Crossroads soundtrack. Hence why the more adult sounding songs lean VERY more into the adult sides from what you would expect from a transitional album. It was lowkey a smart decision from JIVE to make it a transitional album so that it wouldn't alienate all of her audience but it sure did alienate a lot of her younger fans, particularly the ones who still weren't teens because their parents would refuse to buy her stuff.  

Like an example is how there are still LOADS of fans of Taylor who have been fans since she was doing country, but it's quite rare to find someone whose been a fan of Britney since 1998. There are def a few but most of the older fans became fans when Britney started doing more adult stuff. 

Britney's image changed much more than Taylor's has ever, although Taylor has probs (in her released material) been more experimental with genres.