Taylor Swift - reputation (Nov 10)

[neverduplicated]

Nov 19, 2018 18:38:49 GMT -5 KeepDeanWeird said:

Didn’t her deal with BM also include rights to issue a GH set? Or did that get swapped for reputation? Since BM owns the masters, I wonder how they’ll try to maximize her work for their profits.

I'd be very curious to see how a GH would perform for her. On the one hand GH do almost nothing now and are really no different from a playlist, but on the other hand Taylor's fans are so passionately devoted to her that a well-promoted GH with some bonuses could still be a huge success for her and perhaps a decent catalog seller.

[ampersand]

I feel like a GH would have made more sense after Red to bookend her career as a country artist before she made the full-time jump to pop superstardom. The idea of a GH is also kind of archaic in the streaming era, but she certainly has a wealth of b-sides and rarities that they could tack on to make a GH more appealing.

[pnobelysk]

Greatest hits are mostly dead, but I’m convinced Taylor could have a strong greatest hits showing. She could release 2 20track greatest hits albums, one that caters to country & one to pop. 18 returning songs and two new singles for each format. Then because Taylor makes incredible money there could be an ultimate package which would count as a double album (or triple if that’s a thing & appropriate, and include all the songs plus the extra ones I listed at the bottom)

Country:
Tim McGraw
Teardrops of my guitar
Our song
Picture to burn
Should’ve said no
Love story
White horse
You belong with me
Fifteen
Fearless
Mine
Back to December
Mean
Sparks fly
Ours
Begin again
Red
Highway don’t care


Pop:
Love story
You belong with me
Fifteen
Mine
Back to December
The story of us
We are never getting back together
I knew you were trouble
22
Everything has changed
Shake it off
Blank space
Wildest dreams
Bad blood
Style
Look what you made me do
Ready for it
Delicate




Extra:
Eyes open
All too well
Forever & always
I’m only me when I’m with you
You’re not sorry
Crazier
Two is better than one
Both of us
Today was a fairytale
I don’t wanna live forever
Out of woods
New Romantics
Welcome to New York
End game
Safe & sound


Wow this woman has been crazy successful

[KeepDeanWeird]

Nov 19, 2018 21:21:58 GMT -5 ampersand said:

I feel like a GH would have made more sense after Red to bookend her career as a country artist before she made the full-time jump to pop superstardom. The idea of a GH is also kind of archaic in the streaming era, but she certainly has a wealth of b-sides and rarities that they could tack on to make a GH more appealing.

ITA on GH’s being less relevant in streaming era, but there’s a lot of TS songs that never made it on her proper albums so it would be interesting. The bottom line is that BM’s job is to find ways to utilize her catalog for more $$$ - especially after a commercially viable artist leaves the label. No way they are just going to sit still. Repacking/repurposing a catalog is a huge profit maker because the cost of packaging and marketing is quite small. The question is whether Taylor’s input will be sought. Considering her fanbase, it would be wise to have TS’s seal of approval because it’d be disastrous for Taylor to disavow.

[Choco]

She might even buy Big Machine herself if UMG doesn't, according to this article:

www.billboard.com/articles/business/8485967/taylor-swift-catalog-big-machine-ownership-sale-price-umg-analysis?utm_source=twitter

Taking ownership of her old albums seems like one of her main goals now.

[deepston]

A greatest hits album doesn't make any sense in the streaming age and she has stated on her Instagram post that streaming is a BIG priority for her now.
I'd not be surprised if she had some sort of deal with Spotify & Apple Music for the 1st week of the album. The industry is changing and thankfully she noticed it.

[Glove Slap]

There's no point at all for a GH set now. She's one of the few acts whose back catalog does well, especially on streaming. A GH set would just siphon off those streams, which could then be used for re-certifying those albums anyway, rendering the whole undertaking irrelevant.

[Keelzit]

I can't believe Taylor is no longer an indie artist. UGHHH I can't wait for what's next!

[Deleted]

The best thing Big Machine could do is release a rarities album or better yet box set with demos and unreleased tracks. That would be a big seller. If they are allowed to release such a thing.

[nickd]

Nov 22, 2018 11:41:03 GMT -5 @steveic said:

The best thing Big Machine could do is release a rarities album or better yet box set with demos and unreleased tracks. That would be a big seller. If they are allowed to release such a thing.

I guess a lot of the early unreleased demos that we are aware of the existence of are from pre-Big Machine days and probably leaked by RCA or from early demo CDs from when she was shopping around for a label? But yeah, she must have hundreds more unreleased songs from her Big Machine days. According to her, she had 200 songs written by 2006, that means she'd have about 1000 unreleased songs by now if she kept going at that rate.

[tryexp]

Nov 22, 2018 14:25:55 GMT -5 nickd said:

Nov 22, 2018 11:41:03 GMT -5 @steveic said:

The best thing Big Machine could do is release a rarities album or better yet box set with demos and unreleased tracks. That would be a big seller. If they are allowed to release such a thing.

I guess a lot of the early unreleased demos that we are aware of the existence of are from pre-Big Machine days and probably leaked by RCA or from early demo CDs from when she was shopping around for a label? But yeah, she must have hundreds more unreleased songs from her Big Machine days. According to her, she had 200 songs written by 2006, that means she'd have about 1000 unreleased songs by now if she kept going at that rate.

Even if they are allowed I think they can only pull it if they get Taylor to agree with it. If Taylor is unhappy with her earlier stuff being released it could backfire and ending up not making them any significant amount of money.

[Janhova's Witness]

omg did you guys see Taylor's email about the new merch for cyber monday? my wig

[Hefty Hanna]

omg she is literally un$toppable

[Janhova's Witness]

“As part of my new contract with Universal Music Group, I asked that any sale of their Spotify shares result in a distribution of money to their artist, non-recoupable,” Swift wrote in an Instagram post. “They have generously agreed to this, at what they believe will be much better terms than paid out previously by other major labels.” Swift added that the Spotify provision “meant more to me than any other deal point” of the new contract, which also gives her ownership of her masters going forward, and that it’s a sign “we are headed toward positive change for creators — a goal I’m never going to stop trying to help achieve, in whatever ways I can.”

What kind of iconic Grammy campaigning?

Tax cut queen

[nickd]

The final tour date grosses from Tokyo and Oceania were posted on bcharts.

$345,508,462 total gross

2,882,897 tickets sold

53 shows

Totals for each date:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eFNWfcVCbJI8HJyDgxD2jqDsoXFHPbHUwSZ9fIiSdPI/edit#gid=0

[nickd]

She beat the Rolling Stones' record in half as many dates.

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8487606/taylor-swift-reputation-stadium-tour-breaks-record-highest-grossing-us-tour?utm_source=facebook

[nickd]

Full list of records broken.

[Glove Slap]

Top album and Female Artist for Billboard's Year-End Chart.

[nickd]

Top 10 Year End Chart Radio positions

Radio Songs

1. Love Story
2. You Belong With Me
5. Blank Space
9. Delicate/I Knew You Were Trouble


Pop

3. I Knew You Were Trouble
4. Bad Blood
5. You Belong With Me
6. Blank Space
8. Love Story
9. I Don't Wanna Live Forever


Adult Pop

2. Delicate
8. Style
9. Blank Space


Adult Contemporary

2. Love Story
3. Wildest Dreams/Style
5. Blank Space
6. Teardrops On My Guitar
7. Mine
8. You Belong With Me
9. Delicate

[deepston]

Delicate, the savior of this era.

[👑 Eloquent ™]

And with her "flop" era she walks away with the #1 best-selling album of the year, is the biggest female artist of the year, has the highest-grossing U.S. tour of all time, and places top 10 on year-end pop radio, and top 25 on year-end Hot 100, and also had a three-week #1 hit.

I hope she flops next time around too. Haha

[nickd]

Full list of Year End positions from Peterstyles13

#1 Top Female Artists
#1 Top Billboard 200 Album (reputation)
#1 Top Digital Album (reputation)
#1 Top Album Sales Artist
#2 Top Adult Pop Song (Delicate)
#3 Top Billboard 200 Artist
#3 Top Adult Pop Songs Artist
#4 Top Artist
#7 Top Catalog Album (1989)
#8 Top Adult Contemporary Artist
#9 Top Radio Songs Artist
#9 Top Radio Song (Delicate)
#9 Top Adult Contemporary Song (Delicate)
#13 Top Country Album Artist
#18 Top Pop Song (Delicate)
#20 Top Hot 100 Artist
#20 Top Digital Songs Artist
#24 Top Hot 100 Songs (Delicate)
#28 Top Country Album (RED)
#30 Top Country Digital Song (Babe)
#42 Top Country Album (Fearless)
#45 Top Adult Pop Song (...Ready For It?)
#46 Top Pop Song (End Game)
#50 Top Adult Pop Song (End Game)
#50 Top Country Airplay Songs (Babe)
#51 Top Digital Song (Delicate)
#82 Top Billboard 200 Album (1989)

[born]

Wow. She smashed it!

[nickd]

She made a surprise appearance at Ally Coalition in NYC to perform Delicate with Hayley Kiyoko (and the crowd did "1,2,3 lets go bitch")

[👑 Eloquent ™]

^

[justlurkingaround]

Only one Grammy nomination for pop album. Completely snubbed; the Grammys are canceled.

[nightshade]

Eh. I don't think it's so bad. I'm glad she's at least being recognized for the body of work as opposed to just a single.

[👑 Eloquent ™]

Were we really expecting a lot of nominations though? I mean this hasn't exactly been a blockbuster performer (single wise and in relation to her last efforts that were largely recognized by the Grammys).

[Taylor.]

I'm more upset at Delicate not getting anything then the AOTY omission.

[deepston]

I was expecting at least a nom for Delicate and the fact that she got snubbed for AOTY when they even increased the number of noms is just tragic 

In what world is a basic ass song like The Middle more deserving of SOTY than Delicate? lol