‘Midnights’ by Taylor Swift is now challenging Britney Spears’ ‘Oops!… I Did It Again’ (1.31M) for second-biggest sales week for a female album in US history

[TomasBR]

The hypocrisy in here is unbelievable 😳 

I don't even like Taylor's music but everyone in here would die for Britney to do half of the promotion or numbers that Taylor does this days. 

When Britney released Hold Me Closer there were campaigns in here to buy the song several times, including teaching how to fake IP to do it more than once, while teaching how to fake streams. 

Suddenly everyone is advocate for "organically sales". Give me a break! 

 

[morbidiu5]

8 hours ago, Style. said:

Impressive. Which album do you like more? 

I still don't get why are people so obsessed with Taylor. 

[Toxic.Latin]

It is not going to happen

[britney_rocks]

39 minutes ago, Lisa88007 said:

Britney fans are desperate now, not during her peak 

Lol don’t kid yourself. We’ve always been like this 

[MasterMindz]

Why do we treat promotion like it is a bad or desperate thing ?

It is an artists job to promote their music. Y'all act like Britney or Madonna didn't promote the **** out of their music back in the 90s and 00s. Yes there was no social media, but Britney was literally everywhere: magazine covers, interviews, MTV, award show performances. ITZ for example had huge promo between shutting down Times Square, the ABC special, the singles performed in every single show, not to mention the extensive CD signatures and poster signatures that Britney did in stores like Virgin Megastore. Madonna Erotica era went all the way for a *** book. Gaga sold more than a million copies by selling her album for 99cents lmao. It is not like pop artists achieved massive sales with zero promo, they were promoting left and right.

 Taylor has a genius marketing team behind her, and again - if anyone can sell millions of copies with such tactics, then anyone can do it. But that is not the case! At the end of the day she is already the biggest selling and most streamed female artist this year even without Midnights, and streams have nothing to do with the different versions.

And finally, nothing tops the legacy of Oops regardless of breaking or not breaking the record. That album has a huge pop legacy that shaped a full generation of pop artists including Taylor . 

[ObsessedBritFan1]

Taylor is doing us a favour. I know she could put out a better record out than this. Imagine the numbers then
You can tell she loves our Queen. So benevolent. 

[EvanMoon]

7 hours ago, Almost Mystical said:

This, releasing the deluxe version at the same time with both explicit and clean version really helps. I guess that's how people are doing releases these days.

Everyone is....but no one is doing it as well as Tay atm after the post bundeling era. Everyone is releasing 4, 5 or even 6 different versions and barely break 100K. Good for her! And in this day and age where 300K is considered a monster release. Bow down to the queen. 

[CHAOTIC STYLE.]

Not me causing a commotion intentionally 

[MasterMindz]

8 minutes ago, Style. said:

Not me causing a commotion intentionally 

Like Nicki, stirring the pot 

[CHAOTIC STYLE.]

7 minutes ago, MasterMindz said:

Like Nicki, stirring the pot 

Keep the comments on midget 

[CHAOTIC STYLE.]

It just hit me Taylor and Nicki share the same label, but they never treat Nicki’s albums like this? I get that Nicki is not a stellar album seller, but just saying. Queen album was a mess in terms of promo. 
 

[Bigno]

I don't get bothered by Taylor promoting. If anything, it is Billboard who should not count sales like that or change their policies. 

Having said that, I also don't understand the obsession. She is damn hard worker, that is indisputable. She does have some good songs, for.sure, but she really is not making legendary songs imo. But well, some things are not really logical

[Charrrmed89]

Y'all need to remember this album will sell over millions of a copies one week or close and drop massively the next week. 

[bitbitboi]

It's incomparable. Even Britney says it:

Also, BACK IN THE DAY each person actually lifted their 4sses off their seats and went to a store and bought a copy. It was an event. Only true fans or those who were really feeling the era would be that invested to do that. Now it's mostly teenagers clicking on their computers and buying multiple copies (with their parents' money) just to ease their anxiety and collect everything and then brag to other fans online that they got everything.

I also think TS is milking her fans by releasing a bazillion versions of each album just to sell more copies, and exploiting their fans' love and admiration, but at the same time I don't think they really notice it because her fan base are basically rich teenagers and rich white gay men.

And yes I'm pressed, especially because FAKE US FANS only bought 111,000 copies of the masterpiece that is "Glory" the first week. Shame on you. So now we deserve a savvy businesswoman to shamelessly steal this historical record from Britney and from us. I live in Argentina and I'm almost broke but I can spend 10 dollars on my fave to buy a freaking album every three years omg I'm so pissed at the Army, I can't even tell you 

[bitbitboi]

1 hour ago, Bigno said:

I don't get bothered by Taylor promoting. If anything, it is Billboard who should not count sales like that or change their policies.

Oh ABSOLUTELY... But Billboard basically works for music labels, so they support sales, that's their business.

[Elle90s]

Congrats Taylor, still succeeding after 10 plus year. Keeping soaring and be yourself. 

[HeavenOnHell]

Congrats taylor on all your success.. but.. not still not a fan here. 

[The Femme Fatale]

2 hours ago, Bigno said:

I don't get bothered by Taylor promoting. If anything, it is Billboard who should not count sales like that or change their policies. 

Having said that, I also don't understand the obsession. She is damn hard worker, that is indisputable. She does have some good songs, for.sure, but she really is not making legendary songs imo. But well, some things are not really logical

No legendary songs???? Well explain this! 
 

 

jk 😂

[dustinray1987]

I would like to to see Britney bring in those number for a tenth album. I mean you have to go hand it to Taylor she has been around a long time and on her tenth album still bringing in those numbers. I don’t remember Glory bringing in those numbers 

[Puppy]

13 hours ago, G-unit said:

I love her, but someone wake me up when she starts making bops again.  So tired of this boring, bland music.  3 albums in a row.  Yeah, lyrically the music is good…but not my taste tbh.

…but I like it