Taylor Swift - 1989 (October 27, 2014)

[dzjx]

Jun 27, 2014 7:20:24 GMT -5 kmbgs said:

Jun 25, 2014 22:15:04 GMT -5 slayZ said:

To be honest, their release strategy was on point IMO. For Pop anyway.

I would have done this

1) WANEGBT (pop)/ Red (country)
2) IKYWT (Pop) - no country single, Red would be riding high (peaking around the same time)
3. 22 (Pop) / Stay Stay Stay country
4. All Too Well (pop/country)

I know people here hate 22 but it truly is a Max Martin classic and a total jam.

In no way is 22 a Max Martin classic. SUBG, BOMT, IWITY, and the list goes on tower above it. If anything, it's typical/boring MM and that's why it flopped.

What is IWITY?

[Mack]

'22' is flawless, and I will hear no objections.

Jun 30, 2014 15:16:22 GMT -5 dzjx said:

Jun 27, 2014 7:20:24 GMT -5 kmbgs said:

In no way is 22 a Max Martin classic. SUBG, BOMT, IWITY, and the list goes on tower above it. If anything, it's typical/boring MM and that's why it flopped.

What is IWITY?

'I Want It That Way', I'm guessing.

[slayZ]

Taylor wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal today about the current state of the music industry. Here are some of the most interesting bites.

There are many (many) people who predict the downfall of music sales and the irrelevancy of the album as an economic entity. I am not one of them. In my opinion, the value of an album is, and will continue to be, based on the amount of heart and soul an artist has bled into a body of work, and the financial value that artists (and their labels) place on their music when it goes out into the marketplace

There are always going to be those artists who break through on an emotional level and end up in people's lives forever. The way I see it, fans view music the way they view their relationships. Some music is just for fun, a passing fling (the ones they dance to at clubs and parties for a month while the song is a huge radio hit, that they will soon forget they ever danced to). Some songs and albums represent seasons of our lives, like relationships that we hold dear in our memories but had their time and place in the past.

I think forming a bond with fans in the future will come in the form of constantly providing them with the element of surprise. No, I did not say "shock"; I said "surprise." I believe couples can stay in love for decades if they just continue to surprise each other, so why can't this love affair exist between an artist and their fans?

In the YouTube generation we live in, I walked out onstage every night of my stadium tour last year knowing almost every fan had already seen the show online. To continue to show them something they had never seen before, I brought out dozens of special guest performers to sing their hits with me. My generation was raised being able to flip channels if we got bored, and we read the last page of the book when we got impatient. We want to be caught off guard, delighted, left in awe. I hope the next generation's artists will continue to think of inventive ways of keeping their audiences on their toes, as challenging as that might be.

In this moment in music, stepping out of your comfort zone is rewarded, and sonic evolution is not only accepted…it is celebrated. The only real risk is being too afraid to take a risk at all.

What a queen.

[surfy]

Wow! She hit the nail on the head!!!

[slayZ]

But also you guys...



:'(

[Joe1240]

My favorite part from Taylor's essay-

Another theme I see fading into the gray is genre distinction. These days, nothing great you hear on the radio seems to come from just one musical influence. The wild, unpredictable fun in making music today is that anything goes. Pop sounds like hip hop; country sounds like rock; rock sounds like soul; and folk sounds like country—and to me, that's incredible progress. I want to make music that reflects all of my influences, and I think that in the coming decades the idea of genres will become less of a career-defining path and more of an organizational tool.

Taylor's full essay here-
online.wsj.com/articles/for-taylor-swift-the-future-of-music-is-a-love-story-1404763219

[crystalphnx]

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6150379/ask-billboard-ed-sheeran-taylor-swifts-red-reigns?page=0%2C1

Album sales:
6,840,000, "Fearless" (2008)
5,438,000, "Taylor Swift" (2007)
4,420,000, "Speak Now" (2010)
4,045,000, "Red" (2012)
1,004,000, "The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection" (EP) (2007)
346,000, "Speak Now: World Tour Live CD + DVD" (2011)
316,000, "Beautiful Eyes" (EP) (2008)

Top song sales:
5,717,000, "Love Story"
4,935,000, "I Knew You Were Trouble."
4,469,000, "You Belong With Me"
3,839,000, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
3,208,000, "Our Song"
2,865,000, "Teardrops on My Guitar"
2,265,000, "Mean"
2,225,000, "Mine"
1,985,000, "22"
1,890,000, "White Horse"

[surfy]

:O Wow!

And love that Fearless is first!!! Her best album imo (but all of them are amazing!!!)

[areyoureadytojump]

Fearless is probably eligible for 7xP.

The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection is eligible for 1xP.

[tsr]

It feels really weird that Red is at the bottom of her studio albums with its sales considering its impact, but I guess that proves just how big of an impact each of Taylor's albums have had.

As for the majority of the album being produced by Max Martin, I'm excited. I don't want an album full of WANEGBT or IKYWT. But really, as long as the music is good, who cares?

[ListenToItTwice]

Jul 8, 2014 15:01:29 GMT -5 tsr said:

It feels really weird that Red is at the bottom of her studio albums with its sales considering its impact, but I guess that proves just how big of an impact each of Taylor's albums have had.

Her sales consistency is out of this world. First four albums all selling over four million? Wasn't the last person to do that, like, Eminem*?

*not counting his irrelevant and forgotten debut, Infinite

[neverduplicated]

Jul 8, 2014 15:01:29 GMT -5 tsr said:

It feels really weird that Red is at the bottom of her studio albums with its sales considering its impact, but I guess that proves just how big of an impact each of Taylor's albums have had.

As for the majority of the album being produced by Max Martin, I'm excited. I don't want an album full of WANEGBT or IKYWT. But really, as long as the music is good, who cares?

Don't forget that the album market is in decline so a lot of the decrease could be owed to that. Also the singles from Red sold far more than the singles from the debut or Speak Now and nearly match those of Fearless.

Wow @ "I Knew You Were Trouble" being so close to 5 million and "22" being so close to 2 million! It also looks like "Mean" has had fairly healthy sales over the past year.

[ListenToItTwice]

Jul 8, 2014 15:39:18 GMT -5 neverduplicated said:

Jul 8, 2014 15:01:29 GMT -5 tsr said:

It feels really weird that Red is at the bottom of her studio albums with its sales considering its impact, but I guess that proves just how big of an impact each of Taylor's albums have had.

As for the majority of the album being produced by Max Martin, I'm excited. I don't want an album full of WANEGBT or IKYWT. But really, as long as the music is good, who cares?

Don't forget that the album market is in decline so a lot of the decrease could be owed to that. Also the singles from Red sold far more than the singles from the debut or Speak Now and nearly match those of Fearless.

Look at it this way: Red is the best selling album in the US since 21.

[circadian]

To be fair, Red could have sold way more copies had they not dropped the ball for country radio.

[onebuffalo]

Jul 9, 2014 18:05:30 GMT -5 circadian said:

To be fair, Red could have sold way more copies had they not dropped the ball for country radio.

I agree. Big Machine could have sent another single to country and keep the momentum going for Taylor Swift.

[survivorqt]

anyone have totals for the decade so far? With her consistency i think she could get artist of the decade,although Adele might be competition

[ListenToItTwice]

Jul 11, 2014 3:40:24 GMT -5 survivorqt said:

anyone have totals for the decade so far? With her consistency i think she could get artist of the decade,although Adele might be competition

Decade so far:

4,420,000, "Speak Now"
346,000, "Speak Now: World Tour Live CD + DVD"
4,045,000, "Red"
1,512,000, "Fearless"
~800,000??, "Taylor Swift"
~500,000??, "Holiday Collection"

Total: 11,623,000

Adele:

10,961,000, "21"
1,840,000, "19"

Total: 12,801,000

[dbhmr]

Jul 11, 2014 18:30:19 GMT -5 ListenToItTwice said:

Jul 11, 2014 3:40:24 GMT -5 survivorqt said:

anyone have totals for the decade so far? With her consistency i think she could get artist of the decade,although Adele might be competition

Decade so far:

4,420,000, "Speak Now"
346,000, "Speak Now: World Tour Live CD + DVD"
4,045,000, "Red"
1,512,000, "Fearless"
~800,000??, "Taylor Swift"
~500,000??, "Holiday Collection"

Total: 11,623,000

Adele:

10,961,000, "21"
1,840,000, "19"

Total: 12,801,000

...what are these numbers? Paul Grein at Yahoo just made a list of the top 20 acts of this century. Taylor is at #3 with 22.8 million albums sold domestically; Adele is #18 with 13.7 million albums sold. Has Fearless gone well over six million?

music.yahoo.com/photos/top-new-acts-since-2000-1403561474-slideshow/

[Keelzit]

Jul 11, 2014 18:37:27 GMT -5 dbhmr said:

Jul 11, 2014 18:30:19 GMT -5 ListenToItTwice said:

Decade so far:

4,420,000, "Speak Now"
346,000, "Speak Now: World Tour Live CD + DVD"
4,045,000, "Red"
1,512,000, "Fearless"
~800,000??, "Taylor Swift"
~500,000??, "Holiday Collection"

Total: 11,623,000

Adele:

10,961,000, "21"
1,840,000, "19"

Total: 12,801,000

...what are these numbers? Paul Grein at Yahoo just made a list of the top 20 acts of this century. Taylor is at #3 with 22.8 million albums sold domestically; Adele is #18 with 13.7 million albums sold. Has Fearless gone well over six million?

music.yahoo.com/photos/top-new-acts-since-2000-1403561474-slideshow/

A century covers 100 years: currently, we're on the 15th year of the 21st century.
A decade covers 10 years: currently, we're on the 5th year of the 2nd decade of the 21st century

--> Taylor's (or any other artist's) sales for the decade thus far are being counted since 2010 which means that 90% of her first 2 albums' sales belong to the previous decade.

[dbhmr]

Jul 11, 2014 18:48:05 GMT -5 Keelzit said:

Jul 11, 2014 18:37:27 GMT -5 dbhmr said:

...what are these numbers? Paul Grein at Yahoo just made a list of the top 20 acts of this century. Taylor is at #3 with 22.8 million albums sold domestically; Adele is #18 with 13.7 million albums sold. Has Fearless gone well over six million?

music.yahoo.com/photos/top-new-acts-since-2000-1403561474-slideshow/

A century covers 100 years: currently, we're on the 15th year of the 21st century.
A decade covers 10 years: currently, we're on the 5th year of the 1st decade of the 21st century

--> Taylor's (or any other artist's) sales for the decade thus far are being counted since 2010 which means that 90% of her first 2 albums' sales belong to the previous decade.

I should stop trying to read after a day of editing. But holy fuck this was the cuntiest response ever. I'm impressed.

[Deleted]

Never far away from a hot and poppin' thread/situation, hey tay tay fans. Very curious to see how the new album sounds, but right now these last couple of exchanges giving me LIFE.

[Keelzit]

Jul 11, 2014 18:53:14 GMT -5 dbhmr said:

Jul 11, 2014 18:48:05 GMT -5 Keelzit said:

A century covers 100 years: currently, we're on the 15th year of the 21st century.
A decade covers 10 years: currently, we're on the 5th year of the 1st decade of the 21st century

--> Taylor's (or any other artist's) sales for the decade thus far are being counted since 2010 which means that 90% of her first 2 albums' sales belong to the previous decade.

I should stop trying to read after a day of editing. But holy f**k this was the cuntiest response ever. I'm impressed.

[dzjx]

Jul 11, 2014 18:48:05 GMT -5 Keelzit said:

Jul 11, 2014 18:37:27 GMT -5 dbhmr said:

...what are these numbers? Paul Grein at Yahoo just made a list of the top 20 acts of this century. Taylor is at #3 with 22.8 million albums sold domestically; Adele is #18 with 13.7 million albums sold. Has Fearless gone well over six million?

music.yahoo.com/photos/top-new-acts-since-2000-1403561474-slideshow/

A century covers 100 years: currently, we're on the 15th year of the 21st century.
A decade covers 10 years: currently, we're on the 5th year of the 1st decade of the 21st century

--> Taylor's (or any other artist's) sales for the decade thus far are being counted since 2010 which means that 90% of her first 2 albums' sales belong to the previous decade.

We are actually on the 2nd decade of the 21st Century.

[ctmoonstoneheart]

yes fearless is over 6.8 million sold so when her next Album is released it will likely be certified 7 x platinum as catalog sales increase when ever a new album is released

[Keelzit]

Jul 12, 2014 3:48:37 GMT -5 dzjx said:

Jul 11, 2014 18:48:05 GMT -5 Keelzit said:

A century covers 100 years: currently, we're on the 15th year of the 21st century.
A decade covers 10 years: currently, we're on the 5th year of the 1st decade of the 21st century

--> Taylor's (or any other artist's) sales for the decade thus far are being counted since 2010 which means that 90% of her first 2 albums' sales belong to the previous decade.

We are actually on the 2nd decade of the 21st Century.

It was 5 am, forgive me

[Mack]

Jun 25, 2014 20:32:04 GMT -5 Taylor. said:

The 'Red' area should have gone like this.

01. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together / Begin Again (Country)
02. I Knew You Were Trouble (Pop)
03. Red (Both)
04. All Too Well (Country) / 22 (Pop)
05. Come Back Be Here (Country) / Holy Ground (Pop)

This would have been absolutely perfect. :'(

[tsr]

It just hit me that we're probably only about a month or so away from the lead single.

[surfy]

I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER!!!!

[Clauss]

I can't wait to hear the title of the album

[Joe1240]

The era will begin soon I think.

Love this announcement!!

Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Usher to Play iHeartRadio Music Festival 2014

The fourth annual iHeartRadio Music Festival is shaping up to be a typically star-studded concert, featuring a litany of pop's biggest artists performing over the course of two days. Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Usher, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, Mötley Crüe, Zac Brown Band, One Direction will all perform, as will Ed Sheeran, Paramore, Iggy Azalea, Eric Church, Lorde and Calvin Harris, among others. The festival's organizers are also promising special surprise guests at the event, which will take place at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Hotel and Casino on September 19th and 20th.


The festival will also feature an iHeartRadio Music Festival Village in the lot across from Luxor Hotel and Casino featuring live performances by Iggy Azalea, Neon Trees, Kacey Musgraves, Childish Gambino, Magic!, the Pretty Reckless, Lil Jon and more. It will also include what organizers call "fan zones" and interactive experiences with brand partners.

"Year after year the iHeartRadio Music Festival continues to deliver an unprecedented music experience for millions of fans nationwide," the festival's host, Ryan Seacrest, said in a statement. "I couldn't be more excited to be part of it. The adrenaline-pumping performances by pop stars and legendary artists alike, the never-seen-before collaborations, the energy of the fans and the artists, this is truly an event like no other."

Tickets for the general public will go on sale on July 26th at 1 p.m. EST.

Since the festival is a Clear Channel event, music fans who are unable to attend will be able to listen to a live broadcast of the event on Clear Channel stations in 150 cities or watch a live stream on Yahoo! Screen beginning each night at 10:30 p.m. EST. Fans can also watch a two-night special broadcast on the CW at 8 p.m. EST on September 29th and 30th.



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