‘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

[Viking84]

I think she has some great songs (Out of the Woods being the best of all IMHO) but I don't get her popularity. She is a pretty girl with a nice voice. She can play the guitar and write songs but most of them are pretty forgettable.

[everybodygoesdown]

Oops didn't need any of the antics and marketing strategies Taylor uses these days, and it couldn't rely on any streaming or radio play.

Oops was 1.3 million people who had been waiting for the album and literally leaving their house, going to a record store and spend their allowance or after-school-job-paycheck to go get a physical album within the first few days of the release.

 

[bitbitboi]

4 hours ago, Anti-Hero said:

There's a flaw to this logic though. If albums have become easier to purchase because of the internet, why have pure album sales been decreasing?

It's a change in the way we consume music now, where's the flaw?

[MasterMindz]

5 hours ago, Anti-Hero said:

There's a flaw to this logic though. If albums have become easier to purchase because of the internet, why have pure album sales been decreasing?

Most of those sales are Taylor, Adele, and the resurgent popularity  of vinyls.

[3Pney]

I live in europe and i have not met any single Taylor fan yet. I do not hear/see people talking about anything related to Taylor swift,not even during her peak years. 

Either I am surronded by people who do not care about taylor or she is very popular only in the usa.

i did not even know she was releasing an album. 

[SJK]

Britney will always hold the record IMO. Like every one has said, it meant something bigger back then selling physical albums. 

Taylor who sings pretty much the same thing every album. The GP love her because well she’s a basic white girl who they can “relate “ too. Never saw the appeal in her except when she was a country artist. Now it’s pathetic. 

[Isla]

I'm assuming you mean US artists as Adele actually broke Britney's record in 2015 with 25.

[Avenger]

One record I'm sure britney will always keep if Justin couldn't do it then no one else can and that Is 'biggest and best selling teen artist'😏

[Henry.]

44 minutes ago, SJK said:

The GP love her because well she’s a basic white girl who they can “relate “ too.

Literally what I think  Same thing with Adele, ''classy, white woman'' image. For example Britney is way too controversial for general public to support her music like that 

+ Both Tay and Adele have their tactics to sell more 

[WilderWein]

To be honest, I am not that impressed by breaking records these days anymore since streaming and all that. People used to go out to the store to buy an actual album. Now people just click on something at home. 

 

Same with movies. A movie ticket is so much more expensive than back in the day. Inflation adjusted so many movies who claim most succesfull simply aren’t and old movies actually rank way higher in box office succes. 

I don’t see modern day albums who sell more than Britneys Oops as actually more sucessfull. 

[Mp mar50]

Midnights' now aiming for #1 debut on the US albums chart with increased 1.4-1.6 million units first week. 

https://twitter.com/chartdata/status/1584555630232305665?t=qBWW570hKta_FTEIrPxOyQ&s=19

Oops i Did It Again debuted on the US albums chart with 1.3 million in the first week.

 

[GlitterRain]

Britney did it first 

[Adriannn]

omg another AnTic 

[BeyonceIsQueen]

Didn’t Adele already break Britney’s record?  Taylor could nevah

[alleyesonme393]

It only took her 10 albums and 15 years into her career to do so. Our Queen did that 2 albums and 2 years in with physical copies only.

[GlitterSlayDExhaleHI]

59 minutes ago, GlitterRain said:

Britney did it first 

Everyone to surpass a previous record is the first to do it lol. Britney wasn’t first right before oops was released. It was someone else. 

[Mayenaise]

Gowns. 

[Henry.]

 

[Blackout2006]

Welp, it's over 

 @Joshyworld @britney fkn spears @Henry. the Swifties WON

[MikeHunt]

Taylor Swift, this generation’s Michael Jackson and the Princess of Pop! She writes, serves vocals, choreography and elegance! 

 

All the girls and some of the boys want to be like her