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Post by Exclusive on Feb 9, 2018 22:15:45 GMT -5
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Post by HEADOFTHEPACK on Feb 10, 2018 0:01:51 GMT -5
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Post by Lux ◢ ◤ on Feb 11, 2018 8:26:30 GMT -5
Was just listening to this album and my mom asked whether it was Katy Perry
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Post by wjr15 on Feb 11, 2018 21:40:22 GMT -5
Getaway Car came on at the bar. Still stanning for that to be a single. It will be a huge shame if it’s passed up.
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Post by Janhova's Witness on Feb 12, 2018 3:35:12 GMT -5
WAIT "Delicate" is a Good_Hit.mp3
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Post by deepston on Feb 12, 2018 20:15:02 GMT -5
reputation is now nearing 1 million copies sold in China.
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Post by Au$tin on Feb 13, 2018 15:33:26 GMT -5
For no real reason at all other than sheer boredom, here's how many plays (and the % increase) each rep track has received over the past two days on Spotify:
End Game 1,465,097 Look What You Made Me Do 967,963 ...Ready for It? 713,033 Gorgeous 587,329 Delicate 367,356 Call It What You Want 352,255 I Did Something Bad 325,209 Don't Blame Me 285,710 Getaway Car 234,941 This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things 180,903 New Year's Day 180,113 Dress 176,325 King of My Heart 171,402 Dancing with Our Hands Tied 163,955 So It Goes... 152,015
End Game 2.323356991% I Did Something Bad 1.434383913% Getaway Car 1.37889113% Don't Blame Me 1.377582413% Dress 1.291446781% This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things 1.278965273% Delicate 1.269342427% King of My Heart 1.25741492% Dancing with Our Hands Tied 1.257141893% New Year's Day 1.25493035% So It Goes... 1.203176135% Call It What You Want 0.795634424% Gorgeous 0.74477689% ...Ready for It? 0.470705597% Look What You Made Me Do 0.303872339%
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Post by Exclusive on Feb 13, 2018 18:16:22 GMT -5
Y’all sleeping on so it goes..
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Post by Treacherous on Feb 14, 2018 20:52:19 GMT -5
God her tickets for this tour are so esspensive
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Post by HEADOFTHEPACK on Feb 14, 2018 20:57:40 GMT -5
Y’all sleeping on so it goes.. Such a bad song. It doesn't really serve any purpose on the album and is relatively tuneless.
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Post by Eloqueen™ on Feb 14, 2018 21:08:50 GMT -5
reputation is now nearing 1 million copies sold in China. Can you post the source please:)
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Post by deepston on Feb 14, 2018 21:14:05 GMT -5
reputation is now nearing 1 million copies sold in China. Can you post the source please:) A Chinese fan on reddit summed the weekly album sales. They do not have any articles like Billboard does so that is the only way to know total sales. I'll post the reddit post later :)
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Post by Eloqueen™ on Feb 14, 2018 22:14:00 GMT -5
Can you post the source please:) A Chinese fan on reddit summed the weekly album sales. They do not have any articles like Billboard does so that is the only way to know total sales. I'll post the reddit post later :) Wow. If that is true it would put Reputation among the top 20 biggest-selling albums ever there.
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Post by deepston on Feb 15, 2018 7:18:43 GMT -5
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Post by matty005 on Feb 15, 2018 11:56:37 GMT -5
This isn't a source though. This is just someone making a post saying it's the case without a source.
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Post by theflying on Feb 15, 2018 15:16:39 GMT -5
There is 0% chance that number is even remotely true. Sorry.
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Post by deepston on Feb 15, 2018 15:20:18 GMT -5
How so? They just did the math with weekly sales. Unless the people who provide the information (music sites) are lying about the numbers there is not any reason to believe it is a lie. The album sold 760,000 SPS on China on the first day anyway (300k were pure digital sales and 150k were pure physical sales while the remaining were streams). Why is this information so surprising? lmao Source: www.dailyecho.net/article/5a09386595a1630011ead5b3
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Feb 15, 2018 16:36:43 GMT -5
I am a little confused by how they are qualifying sales though because one of the posts makes it seem like they are counting the equivalent of SPS in the US which I am not sure "counts" in the same way that we would typically think of cd sales? Like, one person said that these aren't numbers that would even count toward worldwide sales and the "real cd sales" haven't come out yet?
I am sure it is impressive either way and I do not doubt she is big there, but I am not sure that exact number or how to understand it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2018 5:50:35 GMT -5
Random: I heard white horse today for the first time in a while and was shocked at how well it holds up and what a good song it is. I always thought it was good but IDK if its the weed or mood I was in but I was shocked and how well constructed it was. I've always respected her for being an actual musician/songwriter but I get now how impressive it was at her age to be able to be so involved in the creation of her music. She just showed such an understanding of the craft at such a young age that I can see why she won Album of the Year (besides its sales obviously) and was deserving of her awards for that alone(not that it wasn't already good music, but it definitely makes it more impressive)
I'd LOVE to see her completely self-written and produced an album, Besides Ed Sheeran and Adele she's the only major artist in the game right now who actually has the skills to pull that off(in terms of A-list musicians who still sell, Lorde could probably do it). I think that would be a perfect way for her to show the general public why people fell in love with her in the first place. Even if her sales decrease/the singles don't smash it would definitely be good for image (and would give the media/people who dislike her way less ammunition to shoot her down with, instead of her trying to continue slaying and getting ridiculed when she doesn't a la every aging popstar ever) and more importantly it would be exciting from an artistic standpoint, something this era has lacked. She's done a great job at showing growth as an artist with every release till now with Speak Now being completely self-written, Red dappling into pop but still dominantly country, and 1989 fully switch to pop and 80's inspired. With Reputation, she didn't really do anything new for her besides release pop songs that follow current trends (I'm too stoned to fully elaborate but ya'll know what I mean) and it didn't seem like an album she needed to make/one that adds much to her artistry. It's not that it's a bad album, it's everything it intends to be in terms of a big pop album, but it doesn't push her forward. I think the reason she's been able to be so consistently successful for a ridiculous amount of time is that she never let her audience outgrow her, she grew with them. A lot of people act like the average person/fan is an idiot who doesn't care at all about these things when supporting/liking mainstream artists, but authenticity (more importantly appearing authentic) is definitely amongst the first thing a lot of people look for in their music, no one likes the idea of being sold to, everyone loves thinking their taste is part of their individuality. The fact that her team has always made sure to make the public aware of her involvement in her music made it 100x easier for her fans to support her and feel like they were really connecting with an artist and not being sold a product(not saying that connection doesn't exist but you don't sell millions of albums without a flawless PR campaign).
TL;DR if she goes left-field and does something that really puts the focus back on her artistry I could see her winning back some fans she lost and having an even more legendary career than she already has. Her first decade was flawless, come on queen and show us longevity amongst the likes we have never seen... But if not that I think she should release an album called "I'm a messy bitch who's into playing the victim and not taking responsibility" to at least show us all she still has a sense of humour/awareness and doesn't have her head planted too firmly up her own ass.
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Feb 16, 2018 6:10:32 GMT -5
How so? They just did the math with weekly sales. Unless the people who provide the information (music sites) are lying about the numbers there is not any reason to believe it is a lie. The album sold 760,000 SPS on China on the first day anyway (300k were pure digital sales and 150k were pure physical sales while the remaining were streams). Why is this information so surprising? lmao Source: www.dailyecho.net/article/5a09386595a1630011ead5b3So your source is a blog whose source is a chinese webpage that doesnt show any of the stats the blog post claims
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Post by Active Aggressive on Feb 16, 2018 15:21:52 GMT -5
Her pen game is so fucking strong on Getaway Car. That song is such a masterpiece.
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Post by spaceykSVP1999 on Feb 16, 2018 15:44:55 GMT -5
"Getaway Car" is too Dear Diary for me. Her pen exhibits symptoms of figurative language tic virus. Katy probably catfished as a Swifite and sent ha a letter.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Feb 17, 2018 1:34:37 GMT -5
Wot.
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Post by deepston on Feb 17, 2018 11:27:44 GMT -5
At this point, I'm just hoping she makes a surprise appearance at the Brits
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Post by Oprah on Feb 17, 2018 15:06:59 GMT -5
How so? They just did the math with weekly sales. Unless the people who provide the information (music sites) are lying about the numbers there is not any reason to believe it is a lie. The album sold 760,000 SPS on China on the first day anyway (300k were pure digital sales and 150k were pure physical sales while the remaining were streams). Why is this information so surprising? lmao Source: www.dailyecho.net/article/5a09386595a1630011ead5b3The sites mentioned on that blog post aren't streaming or paid download platforms. You download mp3s for free on them.
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Post by Future Captain on Feb 17, 2018 18:04:00 GMT -5
The problem with Chinese sales figure is that you literally have no idea how much of it is legit, or even legal.
Even if they eventually set up a "legit" sales tracking, the legitimacy of the numbers are immediately in question due to Chinese sources being very notorious for inflating or deflating figures however they desired.
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Post by deepston on Feb 18, 2018 1:13:17 GMT -5
How so? They just did the math with weekly sales. Unless the people who provide the information (music sites) are lying about the numbers there is not any reason to believe it is a lie. The album sold 760,000 SPS on China on the first day anyway (300k were pure digital sales and 150k were pure physical sales while the remaining were streams). Why is this information so surprising? lmao Source: www.dailyecho.net/article/5a09386595a1630011ead5b3The sites mentioned on that blog post aren't streaming or paid download platforms. You download mp3s for free on them. I wasn't aware of this. Just take the figures that I posted with a grain of salt then.
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Post by theflying on Feb 18, 2018 10:42:09 GMT -5
Ironically, this is probably the only thing that I’ve heard that explains the promo decisions they’ve gone for this route, which is like, none at all:
They don’t want people to feel like they’re being sold to. And especially with social media, songs themselves can live on and on with just their quality. Add Taylor’s massive fan base and Beyonce’s Success doing it makes a lot of this makes sense for me.
The shame about it all, because this is a fantastic pop album, is that the songs themselves aren’t really connecting in that visceral way needed.
By the way, I think re: moving her forward artistically, it’s really hard to say that when “Ready For It”, “Dress”, “Call It What You Want”, “End Game”, and “So It Goes” and “I Did Something Bad” are just never things that would've appeared on any other album. This album absolutely moves her forward artistically. And it did so in a way that you can actually sort of measure, by these qualitative standards, anyhow: It takes legitimate risks — at least in regards to her brand and who she’s been as an artist. Reputation is an album made for commercial appeal and radio play, but releasing a song like “Ready For It” is not exactly meant to bring people of all ages to the dance floor ala Shake It Off. It knows it’s polarizing.
Risks are a prime factor of an artist moving forward.
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Post by Janhova's Witness on Feb 19, 2018 3:20:43 GMT -5
Making shitty music is not a risk. It's bad business.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 4:12:15 GMT -5
By the way, I think re: moving her forward artistically, it’s really hard to say that when “Ready For It”, “Dress”, “Call It What You Want”, “End Game”, and “So It Goes” and “I Did Something Bad” are just never things that would've appeared on any other album. This album absolutely moves her forward artistically. And it did so in a way that you can actually sort of measure, by these qualitative standards, anyhow: It takes legitimate risks — at least in regards to her brand and who she’s been as an artist. Reputation is an album made for commercial appeal and radio play, but releasing a song like “Ready For It” is not exactly meant to bring people of all ages to the dance floor ala Shake It Off. It knows it’s polarizing. Risks are a prime factor of an artist moving forward. It's not hard to say that this album doesn't move her forward artistically, those songs all are completely on trend with popular music. You said it yourself, this is a great pop album, but the words "risky" and "artistic growth" don't work here. I'm not going to get into it because it isn't worth the energy but there is no argument in the world that would convince songs like "End Game" and "Ready For It" are anything other than factory made pop songs engineered to be pleasing to as many people as possible. Doesn't mean they aren't decent for what they are, but it does mean that they don't hold much artistic value if any at all.
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