In an age where most performers struggle to move commendable units, acts like Taylor Swift are a rarity.
Indeed, undoubtedly putting even more pressure on the likes of Lady GaGa, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj to perform just as well, Swift’s latest LP ‘RED‘ has now broken a record we doubt any of her rivals will match anytime soon.
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In its first week of release, ‘RED’ sold a 1.208 million copies with all units sold at full price, marking the largest launch week sales since Eminem‘s ‘The Eminem Show’ in 2002- with 1.322 million copies sold.
Topping the US’ Billboard 200, the project moved a mind blowing 465,000 units on iTunes, 396,000 copies in Target while her unique pairing with Papa Johns’ Pizza yielding 8,000 units.
The latter, saw fans able to purchase the release alongside their orders, delivered in boxes branded with the album’s cover.
Of course, the above figures only make up a portion of its total sales, with numbers also being pulled in from outlets all over the US, bar Amazon MP3 where it was not made available for purchase.
Here’s to performers from all genres taking note from this campaign.
Sure, while not everyone has the benefit of Swift’s power, the innovation employed in her strategy really is lacking elsewhere in the industry… all too evident in many an underwhelming chart run.
Above anything, it’s great to see a project fare so well on the basis of strong material and a well thought out sales campaign. Not, the tabloid driven wahala the likes of Rihanna depend on time and time again.
That has to be the best marketing strategy in a long time. Congrats Taylor!
Congrats to her and I’m not a Rihanna or Nicki fan but to compare the two to Swift is BS
they are black women in this industry and of course they wont sell like her
im not saying they are as good as her either as far as artistically Swift is on point but they are black women and for some “reason” white artist soar in this industry
Racist.
not true …. Alicia Keys was the biggest selling solo female artist of the last decade. Beyonce was the biggest selling female artist if u include her Destiny’s Child & solo career.
Mary J Blige has several multi platinum albums in the US & Lauryn Hill’s solo album went 8 x platinum in the US alone.
It isn’t about race… The Urban depts in the US are being run by people that know more about hip hop than R&B. ..
and even they know R&B they still dont get the kind of promotion and marketing campaigns that hip hop artists get.
Also …. hip hop artistis are smart enough to put out mixtapes and tour the mixtapes to biuild their fanbase before their 1st CD.
Drake, J COle, Nicki Minaj, Kendrick Lamar have all done well recently.
but I love “we r neverneverever getting back to gether”
taylor is very talented so haters who think im hating get off me because i dont love taylor but i like and respect her music
Taylor’s album sales ALWAYS soar because she’s probably the biggest US artist of today, she’s definitely America’s sweetheart.
difference between Taylor and someone like Rihanna is that 90% of Taylor’s sales come from the US whilst Rihanna is more of an International act who sells all over the world.
..So I dont agree with you that it has anything to do with race because if Rihanna didn’t have her domestic incident and started being a rebel and kept the “good girl” image….I “think” she could have possibly been up there with Taylor far as being America’s sweetheart and not the Pop rebel.
damn her fans reallu mean business…congrats taylor even i will never buy dat album but then again u dont need my help lol
its so funny how there are alot of positive comments on this stat and not saying she dont deserve it but there are alot of other acts that are discredited on this site as far as comments.
people lash out at acts like “Brandy” or BEY who are very artistic and deserve their props not just praise but just to commend them
and i notice it be majority blacks hating on black artist but praise white artist. thats soooo wack!! for real
I agree that black people hate on black artist but the fact of the matter is not all black people like R&B and to be real most people like Pop,Rock and Hip hop over R&B mostly because they sound better and everyone knows it from MJ to Madonna…. To Elvis to The Beatles. And on black artist not selling as well as whites – HIP HOP SELL ALOT !!!!!!! Kanye,JayZ,Drake and Lil Wyan are all big sellers. So R&B is just not what people want for the Future deal with it.
@Belladonna
You’re a f*****.
@Belladonna, it KILLS you that you can’t be a white woman doesn’t it?
Your level of stupidity is nauseating.
@ belladonna oct 31,2012 313p
am i wrong or is the biggest selling hip hop artist eminem?
*sighs* how long will she last ?
I don’t get it! I really don’t get it!
She will last as long as her p**** doesn’t fall out and she can keep breaking up with guys so she can write breakup songs about them.
OMG taylor get that cash b****!!!!!! RED is a good album!!!!
Damn.
Adele and Taylor Swift got that game on lock.
That’s why say what you want, all that bs about “Most Internet Popular Celebrity” “Most Twitter Followers” “Most Youtube Views” doesn’t mean s*** unless you’ve got the album sales to back it up.
I’ve noticed both Adele and Taylor don’t f*** around with all that internet bull or costumes/wigs/personas (and I’m not speaking about one singer, from Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, Katy Perry and etc.) and they make money strictly off their music. Congrats to them honestly.
I’m not saying high album sales = good album, not at all. A lot of albums don’t make the money they SHOULD, but I will say…these b****** don’t even want other girl’s wigs, it would dirty up their nails. Damn.
“these b****** don’t even want other girl’s wigs, it would dirty up their nails”. I now rest my eyes. Made my day.
“…..these b****** don’t even want other girl’s wigs, it would dirty up their nails. Damn” <—- LMAO 🙂
Yes, but lets not be confused here! "TRAILER Swift" has been pegged as the "NEW IT GIRL" ever since the Yeezy incident! They promote her endlessly! She tears through men like ELIZAETH TRAILER…*cough* I mean TAYLOR, yet she is not considered a 'H**'! Rihanna can stand next to a man and she is called all types of SLORES!
Let's not forget that the industry is trying to find an American replacement for "b****** baby" having and "adulterer" ADELE (I'm quoting what some have called her recently)! They are hoping that TRAILER Swift is that person!!
LMAO
This should’ve been King Bey……………
King BEY ACHIEVED WHAT TAYLOR WILL NEVER ACHIEVE
I agree, I would still love to see the King sell a mill in a week tho
@I am BLUE THE REAL HIVE lmao, it was only earlier today, when I posted a comment on the beyonce blog, telling me.. why Im a bringing up Taylor on a beyonce blog and you do exactly the same!
This Is a Taylor swift blog! not a beyonce one!
Beyonce is beyonce taylor is taylor they both are power houses in the business and they deserve everything they get and have.
All hail to King Bey……………..
I’m a Bey fan and even I voted that comment down because it was unnecessary. It’s like you’re trying to put her in the line of fire when you say s*** like that.
So not fair that R&B artist don’t have financial support from their fans. I’m sure if every body that downloaded Brandy’s Two Eleven would have bought it she would have sold gold the first week. Black people need to start buying albums or R&B artist should start boycotting and refusing to put out music unless they sell. With the support of the label it could possibly make a difference
I’m pretty sure that no one is downloading Brandy’s album. When people don’t care, it’s just that, they don’t care. Do you really think that no one is downloading RED for free? I’m sure that more poeple ripped RED then people that bought 2/11.
I agree to a degree but R&B artists don’t receive the same backing as Pop, Country & Hip Hop these days. Unless you can slide into a HYBRID-music genre aka Pop-Rap, Pop-Country etc. you will not receive support from the media and music industry. You can blame music listeners to an extent but when some folks can market on PIZZA BOXES, POP CANS and other popular items (an option not provided to all artists) thy will ALWAYS COME OUT AHEAD of the pack!!
Well done Taylor
ahh so. she got a big audience. 😀
I must admit never really got into taylor swift but seriously i think she deserves it she writes her own music with no gimmicks and that music at it’s best !! WELL DONE.
She writes her own music SO THEY SAY 0_o! There are quite a few who THEY SAY write their own lyrics only to later discover it isn’t really so……
Her CD is on the cover of a PAPA’S PIZZA box! How the hell is that not a damn GIMMICK? LOL 🙂
It’d be more impressive if she wrote about something other than her breakups with her endless number of boyfriends.
Dont even try. TaylorSwift is pretty much a tween artist not unlike Jonas Bros or beiber. Her fan base is 6-14 year old girls and sexually confused boys. All her albums are in piles at used cd stores just like BSB and nsync. They fly off the shelf because parents have to buy them for their tween daughters Zomg mommm the new taylor swift musicxxxxx. Gurl bye
YESSSSSSSS! 🙂
She doesn´t deserve it! sorry
Strong material??? Sam what are u smoking? This girl is bland, can´t sing, etc, etc. I know she writes so I don´t want to bash her. It´s not that. But you fail to mention other artists can´t have that inmense promotional campaign. It´ not that they don´t want it or are lazy. Labels are not going to do it for them
I said it many times but here it comes once again: music since 2000 is sad. Sales and quality are horrendous for the most part at the top of the charts. And among the few ones doing it big is Taylor Swift??? Give me a f****** break. At least when they promote next Adele album as much as this Taylor one, it would be deserving cos she is so talented and her music is great, not the best but you know what I mean. People doing these numbers 15 years ago were… true greats, not these talentless or average at best acts
Yes Taylor has young fans but so does beyonce gaga rihanna ect, explain their sales figures compared to Taylor? (Gaga aside as she sold big even without that amazon deal she had) they all have big t*** fan bases but obviously she has a lot of other fans in different age ranges, people lie but numbers don’t!!
most of her audience is teenagers but she needs to grow up before she gonna be like 30 singing break up songs
wow go taylor 🙂 this shows her fans mean business
This is really impressive! Why y’all didn’t buy Brandy’s album like this? Brandy’s fans aint sh*t.
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CONGRATS TAYLOR…I never bother with her music but 1.2 million ain’t nothing to hate on…Country music can’t be compared to RnB IN terms of album sales & plz don’t start the “black people don’t buy music” s*** coz Carly Rae Jepsen is flopping HARD even with the benefit of the biggest hit of 2012…
You better preach about that CRJ flopin’ CD! And it flopped out the gate. She sold 9,000 copies the 1st week.
It’s funny how only “certian folks”…… *cough BLACK FOLKS*…… are lambasted by these HYPOCRITES when they don’t go GOLD or PLATIUM in their 1st week of sells! R&B artists have never sold music like that and they damn sure have never had ppl tell them their efforts in the studio were no good just because it didn’t sell a zillion copies!
I like love story is her best song
1. She is white
2. She is white pretty
3. She sings modern country
4. She is highly packaged… she has run through about ten high profile guys in a few years yet we never hear anyone calling her a s s*** or such like as they do with the black female artists..SOMEHOW she is still read as innocent.
5. Who cares… I dont like any of her songs…
@MOI-MEME,,,That is so Unfair to think, say and
Write such a Mean Spirited Comment! Nobody is
that Dam Color Blind, your color don’t have jack
shyt to do with it, you silly a/h and if Taylor is
Package good so What. And Here yo Dumb Ass
go again talking about Taylors, “Snatch” Dam many
of you are Fuked in the head, why can’t you just give
credit where credit is Deserved and Stop all of that
Back Biting Bull Shyt!
My Goodness the Hate…
ADELE is read as innocent and all of them as far as I am concerned except Rihanna, But hey the good Lord gave Taylor and Rihanna a Pus too so talk about it if you want to but it still don’t matter one shyt just like Me Preaching to a empty chair don’t mean shyt,,,,Just saying.
Broke Busted Welfare Queens and Getto RATS CAN NEVER Ever be happy for Others!
Adele is classy she doesn’t change boyfriends 100 times a year so don’t compare her Taylor Swift. Hell even Rihanna doesn’t spread her legs as much as Taylor does so I’m surprised people call RIhanna a s***.
LOL…ALL OF THIS RIGHT HERE FOLKS!!
APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE!! 🙂
*Had a black female ran through men and made songs whining about them……LOL come now…..
Shes garbage! Cant sing , & writes/sings the same repetitive songs
and she’s pretty LOCAL(based off of previous album sales)
CONGRATS TAYLOR!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 🙂 😉
Wow congrats to taylor she almost break the britney record sales for OIDIA
Lol, she caters to kids and teens, so of course she’s going to sell well. Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus(Hannah Montana) Jonas brothers etc. all had similar feats.
As soon as Taylor starts talking about grown up ish and starts making grown up music, she will no longer be selling millions like this. You can’t really compare her to Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj etc because most of their fans are past the age of 12..
If you actually listened to her album Red, you would agree with the CRITICS that her lyrics HAVE grown. Stop talking out of your ass.
This reminds me of Shania Twain (whom i love)…She ended up having more diamond albums than Madonna,Celine,Janet,Mariah & Whitney but still never ranked in the league of these icons,just to prove sales aren’t everything & at the end of it all people will only remember the music
I LOVE SHANIA TWAIN!
TRAILER Swift is a poor country imatation! She a step up from Country music’s PUBLIC PROSTITUTE, Miranda Lambert.
Albums that typically sell that much in their first week usually have a large drop in the 2nd week. Taylor has sold her soul to the devil because all her music is about the same crap and its the same demographic that buys it every year. If Taylor would step out of her comfort zone and make something with more substance and quality then I’d have more respect for her as an artist. She can’t sing worth s*** and she barely has any stage presence. This is the kind of music that keeps her selling.
Wtf are you talking about? Red is totally different than her other albums. Not one damn song sound alike. That’s why sh’s gettingflack from country purists because the album has variety sonically. Keep on hating, Taylorwill continue to slay.
Taylor swept the board. She got sales from the pop market, country, teens, and 20+. And it also didn’t hurt that she launched this album with a huge anthemic #1 hit. But contrast the pop style of We Are Never Getting Back Together to the more country-sounding material that Taylor also released in advance of the album’s debut. It was a solid strategy to draw in multiple fan bases.
Now, why is there so much hate here on Neyo, Usher, and Chris Brown for doing the exact same thing?
How has doing the same thing benefited Neyo, Usher and Chris is a better question. Usher and Chris are seeing their poorest sales ever, and chances are Neyo will too.
Taylor basically began her career as a pop-leaning country artist, who has always marketed herself to the interest of mainstream pop fans in addition to country. Usher didn’t do a single pop-sounding record from 1994 to 2008, then suddenly jumped on that train. That’s the difference. Taylor was always, in some way or another, “pop.” Usher was solidly R&B for most of her career, then out of no where started doing pop records and hoped he’d make new fans, while expecting to keep all of his long time fans. Doesn’t work like that. From what I’m seeing, Usher is LOSING his fan base and not really making too many new ones.
Neyo, Usher, and Chris Brown have benefited by being able to continue to have their songs played at pop radio, thus enabling all three to reach the upper echelons of the Hot 100.
You are correct that Usher didn’t start doing pop sounding records until about 2008, but that was because he didn’t have to. The music industry shifted a few years ago, and most pop stations outright stopped playing r&b/hip-hop records.
I don’t think Usher, or the other two, are losing fans at all. They’re sales aren’t anywhere near Taylor’s, but imagine what they might be selling album-wise, or where they’d be career-wise, without the pop/techno records they’ve been releasing. The hustle changed, and they adapted.
You go Taylor keep showing all of Us
what can happen it you and your team
plan well and got your ducks all in a row.
Add your first week sales to what you
made last Year and Taylor it’s a Wrap!
Good For You, keep up the great work
perhaps it will give Others the will Power
to stay in the Race and keep right on working
hard and aiming for big and better days with
their first week sales!
The problem with your statement is that 1st week sells is a recent phenomenon put in place by the POWERS THAT BE who control the industry. Who the hell cares about 1st week sells and why should they be used as a measure for the QUALITY OF A CD?
It’s a shame that ppl have short attention spans and are easily duped by a crafty, lying, evil, RACIST media. Artists put their heart and soul into their music only to have the collective media voice speak against them and their music. Or refuse to promote and play their songs! There are so many talented artists who never get radio or media play. In the past you didn’t have to dance, sing, boot-kiss and bow. You just had to have a talent and a true love for your craft. This MILLION SELLING 1ST WEEK BULLSH*T just makes it harder for ACTUAL TALENT TO EITHER CONTINUE OR BREAK INTO THE INDUSTRY!
YAWN……..So What!
Her music is GENERIC & BORING but she is a WHITE FEMALE and a “media darlin” so those important facts will never be discussed! No, the media harps on young BLACK ARTISTS and goes out of it’s way to tear them down. I have never seen “TRAILER Swift” give a live performance worthy of mentioning yet the media drips and drools whenever this “blank slate” bellows and screeches on stage. However, the young black talent is accused of lip-syncing and howling while “TRAILER Swift” pecks on her BANJO & shrieks like a banshee in heat!!
Those who purchased this CD are obviously deaf! Every song I’ve heard sounds exactly like the ones she released last yr….”He did me wrong”….”we will never get back together”…..blah, blah, feminist whine, blah
This b**** plays victim like it’s on special. And don’t even get me started when she starts winning awards and does her b******* OH ME I WON BUT HOW routine.
quit hating on Taylor just because your fav could never. ..Congrats Ms. Swift!!
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas Taylor slay them born this gay numbers!!!! Congrats queen
After her illuminarti Kanye grammy induction where they were all wearing red dresses she’s gone from strength to strength
Congrants to her!….i don’t listen to her music but those sales are impressed specially when is a full price, yep, her fans are teenages but so are Gaga fans (the worst among them, the majority have no brain), Rihanna and Katy perry and they don’t have this numbers a full price, i’m not related to her music but she writes her own songs so that is a talent my friends whatever if we don’t like her music or not, she deserves all the success she has achieved, i tell you why, she is not a conventional Pop artist, she has sucess with her music, Country-Pop, something rare if not impossible in mainstream (Shania Twain, was even more Pop than Taylor is) and she deserves because her fans actually buy her records, it’s not something planned, she is a sweet girl, whatever you like it or not she is living dreams with no lies, tricks or overe-exposing herself.
When I passed the Walgreens last week and saw them advertising ‘Red” on their electronic billboard, I knew her marketing team had the game on lock. “Cottonelle Toilet Paper, 6 rolls for $5.99,” “Deer Spring Water, 24 pack for $5.00, ” “Taylor Swift’s “Red”, $11.99. She did that!
Congrats to Taylor and her magnificent marketing team!
And in terms of people bringing up Brandy & other R & B artists, WHEN was the last time a R & B album sold 1 million copies in the first week???? Apples to Oranges people. ‘Two Eleven” is a fantastic album & that’s all I’m concerned about.
YOU ARE CORRECT!! Her team had this campiagn rockin’! BUT she and her team were permitted to do so. Not all artists have the same opportunity to shine. It is for that reason I get mad when folks try to compare R&B acts with the likes of this chick. Theya re just not treated equally. Had everyhing been equal, I think quite a fe could achieve this feat! IMO
alot of r&b artists are doing just fine financially and constantly and arrogantly brag about their money so i dont feel the need to buy their s***.
only 2 albums i bought this year was Nas – Life is Good and Kendrick lamar- good kid m.A.A.d city because it was QUALITY music.
Brandy co wrote only 3/15 tracks on the album, i feel no guilt after torrenting it.
also, congrats Taylor.
i dont like her at all, i dont see how anyone 18+ can rate her music either.
Is she honestly THAT big in the US? here in the UK shes not HUGE
Exactly, us UK lot have a thing called taste, lol! (Excluding Rita Ora)
Probably because the UK doesn’t listen to the garbage country genre.
@Common Sense Garbage? I could say the same about Rnb music.
Sure because white people buy albums. black people don’t.
Or just that kids don’t know how or are too scared to illegally download. My little cousins’ 10 and he asked his parents for this album. I told him how to get it for free and I did the dirty work. Saving the world piece by piece.
So yall bey and rih stans mad huh? Dont be bitter that she sold what took your fav a year plus when she did it in 1 week.
OMG OMG! A Taylor post on an urban site!
GRAPEJUICE IS THE BEST!!!
I’m so happy, you wouldnt believe!
#TeamTaylor
LOL yes ISN’T IT SIMPLY DISGUSTING!
Just like 1 Direction, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga. VIOLENT DOMESTIC ABUSER pAnk and now this chick!! Urban site my ASSets!!
Mobwife. why dont you go listen to your women beater chris brown?
I NEVER thought this was an Urban Site!!
You know this is all your fault because you keep mentioning her. I know your 14, so you don’t understand how bad she really is. But you will learn, you will learn!
Stop dissing Taylor, I wanna know what artists in todays market you think are good?
Kanye (Ma King)
Azealia (Ma Queen)
Mr Hudson
Katy B
MIA
Santigold
Prodigy
Coldplay
Evanescence (though the woman’s a little b****)
Friendly Fires
Nero
Alvin Risk
Example
Swedish House Mafia
Tinie
Dizzie
Tinchy (a bit)
Brandy
Alphabeat (second album only)
Snap!
Black Box
2 Unlimited
Paramore
Lil Kim (she got s*** after ‘The Naked Truth’)
2 Pac
Beenie Man
Amy Winehouse
Major Lazer
Diplo
C+C Music Factory
Calvin Harris
The Knife
Pre-sell out Nicki Minaj
Jay-Z
Beyoncé
Marina & The Diamonds
Ms Dynamite
Rustie
B.I.G
Lil Wayne
Drakesha
…yeah I’m gonna stop now.
Well some of the artists are alright, some are abit lame! and some are like.. who the hell are they! Atleast you’ve got a mixture lf all types of music I supose
But Kayne your (king) Really?
Alright?! Lame!? You know you love some of these artists don’t try and hide it! Trying to do what I do to you to make me mad, ain’t gonna work! All the music I listen to either have good lyrics, good vocals or epic beats. Taylor is just basic on all these levels. As for Kanye, I don’t like him as a person but I got all his albums. Your just mad because he told Taylor how it is in 2009, lol! You need to tell me what artists you like, I’m guessing Justin Bieber, Pitbull, Carly Rae Jepsen, Olly Murs?
I said I thought some where alright, but honestly most of them are not my thing. You think you make me mad? Dude. If you think that, then quite frankly you’re deluded.
Epic beats? I dont like music that realies on beats and has nonsense and repetitive lyrics!
Taylor makes heartfelt music, which she writes. she’s not just given a song to sing, like many are.
Kanye’s last couple of albums havent produced any big hits.. Taylor deserved that award. Beyonces singles ladies vid was just 3 girls dancing to a song. It had no message, no story behind the vid. The lyrics had nothing to do with the vid. The whole point of making a music vid is to tell the story of the song through a video.
Olly Murs? see you obviously havent a clue have you! I’ll tell you a few that you’ll know. No point telling you bands, as you’ll not know them.
Ed Sheernan, coldplay, Leona lewis, Adele, Taylor,carrie underwood, Lana del rey, pink, Rihanna, kelly clarkson, Paolo Nutini. Alexis Jordan.Akon
OMG I live in Camden right next to where Amy Winehouse died, I go open mic nights and see live music every week. I probably know about unknown band more than you! And fo yo information Beyoncé made a very iconic video, something that was memorable and will be engraved in pop history. Taylor just reenacts some scenes from a t*** drama! Look I can tell your a really nice guy (unlike some people who just start cursing on this site) and to be honest I don’t mind what you listen to, everyone has there own take on what’s real music. Some of the artists I listen to aren’t labelled “Real Musicians” but I accept that. Though you just you go on and on about Taylor, I’m not gonna lie it pisses me off. Well now that they’ve started blogging about Taylor maybe that will suppress your need to mention her on every unrelated blog posts…your gonna stop right…right? Any way let’s just agree to dissagree and have make up s**. Actually no make up s** that would legally make me a paedophile.
Oh alright. Fair enough. i’ve been to an open mic ever. I supose, you’ll get the chance to see talent before they’ve been signed!
No, she made an ironic dance routine. What about Lmfao – s*** and I know it. People copy the dance routine to that. Does that make the video iconic?
It makes me happy to know that you dont actually mind what I listen too. I know can sleep at night, cause its been keeping me up at night..
They’ve only just made a new blog today, you should check it out! Also should check out Taylors new album!
You know what I am a nice guy, and maybe, but I think they might not do another Taylor blog, so I cant really say I wont.
*never
I had a feeling you were going to say that, well don’t expect me not to hate! I’ll try my hardest to give the album a spin but if I don’t come back to the blog you’d know I’m in hospital getting some surgery to recover my ear drums. I might go to the Christmas light thing too. I pass there everyday, so if I’m not tired enough I’ll watch. Anyway don’t lose any more sleep lol!
Haha. well with the music you like. Taylor will be a welcome rest your ears me thinks.
I can see you being a Taylor swift convert quite soon!
Oh so your gonna watch Taylor sing aswell… I think its really great that you’ve seen the light, and realise I was right about how great Taylor swift ;( Its okay, everyones wrong sometimes;)
If I could see you I’d been giving you a look!
…. A Tad scared now.
I just fond out that, the taylor swift event is a wrist band only event. They are giving the wrist bands out from 7am on tuesday, which means I’d have to get up at 6am to get one of the 2500 wrist bands avaible… that sucks.
I’ve snooped around country boards and blogs and many country music fans consider Taylor a sell out, or don’t take her seriously because she’s too pop. Fans of more traditional country music seem to prefer Carrie Underwood to her. Just like 15 years ago they preferred Trisha Yearwood’s more country sounding version of “How Do I Live” to Leann Rimes’ more pop version.
The media right now is obsessed with lite and peppy white female singers. White teenage girls and gay white guys both twirl around to this type of perky, bubble gum singer enough to keep them on top. One day the mood with shift to something more serious, more masculine, harder and ‘darker’ (literally and figuratively). When that happens acts like Taylor, Katy and Gaga (and the people who try to be like them…Rihanna) will be outcasts.
In the meantime, I’m tired of hearing black fans get condescended for “not supporting” black artists music, downloading and basically not supporting our own artists enough to the point where they either flop or justifiably switch to pop. Black music is being snubbed at a corporate level. What the hell can fans of it do when labels and top 40 radio stations insist on shoving it to the backburner for crap like this and Justin Bieber? In 2004, Usher did these opening numbers with Confessions (and Taylor’s album most likely won’t sell as much as it.) At least 50% of the fans behind him were black — so GTFOH with that “black people don’t buy music” s***. Black people have long proven that to not be true. The problem here is that black people don’t control the music business, and the suits have decided that they’ll just make more if they promote white pop acts instead.
@CZARM- PREACH!!!!!!
& if they can’t understand what you’re saying they’re ignorant or naive or both.
I AGREE WITH YOU!
P R E A C H!! 🙂
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LMAO@the # of negative votes. Apparently I rubbed some thin skinned Taylor Swift cronie (who is either using multiple computers to vote down my comment or knows how to change their IP proxy, thus allowing them to repeatedly vote) the wrong way and now they’re lashing out. 😆
My position stands. Whatever it is that I said to p*** you off, I say it again. As you continue to waste your time going out of your way to manipulate the system to vote down my comment again, just remember that because my words resonated with you so much that you have to go through such trouble to lash out pretty much makes you my b****. My words (which you can’t delete) owned your soul, and I love it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJgBqrcnI1U
Well damn! “S*** fire and save matches, f*** a duck and see what hatches.” — Steven Tyler
The Internet killed music. Most of the s*** that gets called a “hit” these days wouldn’t have lasted a day on the charts back when people had to get in their cars, drive to the record store and actually buy music. Now that people can just casually click on something and have it like that, it enables nonsense to persevere. In addition, the digital era has allowed artists who should have been one-hit wonders (Kesha, LMFAO) a second chance…AND…allows for people to secretly indulge in what they probably would be ashamed to be seen with (Gangnam Style).
Is Taylor Swift worth making a trip to the record store for? Eh. Probably not. Lucky for her, people who only casually like her can have it with the click on a button. Back in the days when there was physical effort involved in buying music, when you had to face the cashier with the CD of a cheesy artist, and you had to own up to having your friends see that CD in your collection, people were way more selective about what artists were and weren’t worth it.
The music industry really needs to get out of bed with iTunes and find a way to force people to go back to the record store. If they can do that, then things will dramatically improve.
This comment right here—T.R.U.T.H.
it wasnt JUST the internet – it was the combination of many factors. but I do agree 100% with this comment.
Since TGJ has decided to report on a non urban act like Taylor Swift, I now expect posts on acts like Matchbox Twenty, Linkin Park and Mumford and Sons.
Why? Did Linkin Park release Minutes to Midnight Part 3? They’re pretty much the alternative rock version of taylor swift.
Hahahaha I say bring that on!
It’s good to know that Brit is still holding on to her record 13 years later.:-)
Yess
This is very worrying news, I could now see her becoming the biggest international star. How does she shift so much? Why do people like her? I just don’t get it!
shes safe – shes pretty but not threatening.
she acts like a virgin mary so soccer mums have no worries buying it for their kids.
she doesnt offend anybody, her songs are pop-country which has a large market.
I dont see it either, then again i am not 12.
Sad but true story. As long as people don’t rub it in our faces all the time *Ehem* “TSN1F”.
Peter Griffin. What music do you actually like? I want artists names..
Demanding! Lol, my essay is above. Though I don’t listen to new music that much. I’m mostly listen to music made in the 90, mainly ’92, cause that’s the best year ever. Last song I listened to… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOZi1tb3Lx4
Okay, well i gave that song a listen and I could never listen to it again. I cant understand how you like that!:P
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Them country folks support – let’s just pray these f**** stay away from the polls come Tuesday.
….. No they deserve to vote as much as everyone… gosh.. peope are so damn nasty on this site
A TAYLOR SWIFT POST GETTING 100 COMMENTS! I KNEW PEOPLE COULDNT RESIST TALKING ABOUT QUEEN TAYLOR!
#TeamTaylor
Taylor Swift can sell 1.2 millions records in one week the b**** is still 22 writing 12 year old songs.#OverratedBitch
@Mario You obviously havent listen to the new album, just cause she isnt singing about going out to clubs and stuff like that.. doesnt make it music for 12 year old songs.
Both of you took my comment wrong kinda.I actually have the album but as a true fan of music I don’t stan for an artist and think that they perfect and can’t do no wrong.I casually listen to her but i still find that her songs are to teeny and music critics agree with me check that out and i just don’t get her hype and her as an artist and that’s why i think she is overrated.Secondaly, i actually liked your reply it was respectful and i appreciate that.However to miss Bawse when did having opinion become hating.i swear people use that hating and bullying word to damn much.if i hated her i would want the girl to be dead and i speak out of my mouth thank you and you speak out of your ass because you don’t clearly get the true meaning of hating.
@mario. You did call her an overated b**** though. You could’ve just called her overated if thats how you feel about her music..Calling her a b****, your talking about Taylor herlself! This is only gonna get Taylor fans on your back.
@TAYLOR SWIFTS NUMBER 1 FAN it’s ok man. Haters will hate. They talk out of their asses without listening to Taylor’s Critically and Commerciall Acclaimed RED album. I love it and I’m happy for her success. She deserves it!! Bumping to it right the *uck now.
Commercially*
@MiSSBawsen I’m glad to know that you loving her, as much as I am:)
Yeah a lot of stans of other artists, cant stand the fact she sells so much.
LIES LIES LIES OVER 500k were sold at 99cent on Amazon she did not sell 1+mil on full price… of course an album for 99cents is going to sell but it shouldnt be recognized as a goodthing. what happened to the days when Hype and hustling sold your albums not this 99cents b*******.
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Ola
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