“Midnights” breaks modern-era record : 400k vinyl in a single week

[LilyLark 9,943]

Incredibly impressive, insane numbers. She's going to break a mill, and I think no one predicted that.

[HIM820 1,770]

59 minutes ago, ELECTROHEART said:

Please not, Taylor only uses people who collab with her as an instrument to have more sales and impact, you have Lana del Rey as the most recent example.

okay I love Lana, but Taylor is using her for sales!? Do you actually believe that? Lana is about to get her highest charting song ever because of this collab. 

[LilyLark 9,943]

1 hour ago, HIM820 said:

okay I love Lana, but Taylor is using her for sales!? Do you actually believe that? Lana is about to get her highest charting song ever because of this collab. 

This.

[Cavadour 2,098]

A girl has ways to capitalize herself. Clever.

[Juanlittlem 42,280]

3 hours ago, ELECTROHEART said:

Please not, Taylor only uses people who collab with her as an instrument to have more sales and impact, you have Lana del Rey as the most recent example.

How is she gonna benefit from collabing with Lana, a girl who hasn't been in the charts for years?

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3 hours ago, HIM820 said:

okay I love Lana, but Taylor is using her for sales!? Do you actually believe that? Lana is about to get her highest charting song ever because of this collab. 

This is how you educate people 

[elijahfan 25,225]

Well, no surprise if all of her fans got that quadruple vinyle clock... How can one see it as an achievement with cheap tactics like that?  But good for her and good for the physical market tho.

[OMonster 14,634]

25 minutes ago, elijahfan said:

Well, no surprise if all of her fans got that quadruple vinyle clock... How can one see it as an achievement with cheap tactics like that?  But good for her and good for the physical market tho.

I agree with this. I'm a massive Taylor fan and love her music but all of these first week numbers are completely off. She's sold so many different versions of this album. Divide the numbers up by the versions of the album and the sales aren't nearly as huge as they seem. They're all driven by hardcore fans too, not the public. Most of the GP will never hear Midnights or even know it's a thing. 

[Pennywise 35,842]

50 minutes ago, elijahfan said:

Well, no surprise if all of her fans got that quadruple vinyle clock... How can one see it as an achievement with cheap tactics like that?  But good for her and good for the physical market tho.

 

23 minutes ago, OMonster said:

I agree with this. I'm a massive Taylor fan and love her music but all of these first week numbers are completely off. She's sold so many different versions of this album. Divide the numbers up by the versions of the album and the sales aren't nearly as huge as they seem. They're all driven by hardcore fans too, not the public. Most of the GP will never hear Midnights or even know it's a thing. 

ALL of the mainstream artists do those "cheap tactics", including Gaga. But none of them could ever dream to sell this much in this era. Y'all are delusional if you think this is not an achievement imo. 

[Teletubby 138,760]

she is an eco terrorist

Vinyl LPs are made from un-recyclable plastic in a process that produces approximately 0.5 kg of CO2 per album—the equivalent of driving two miles in a gasoline powered car. In the overall scheme of things, it’s not much, but buying four copies of one album in the pursuit of fan art stretches the standards of environmental responsibility.

 

 

[MessyTop 14,387]

Waiting for week two…

 

[MessyTop 14,387]

42 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

she is an eco terrorist

Vinyl LPs are made from un-recyclable plastic in a process that produces approximately 0.5 kg of CO2 per album—the equivalent of driving two miles in a gasoline powered car. In the overall scheme of things, it’s not much, but buying four copies of one album in the pursuit of fan art stretches the standards of environmental responsibility.

 

 

is not just Taylor. Is the music industry. 
Gaga had 4 variants too

Chromatica has 6 vinyl variants 

[OMonster 14,634]

50 minutes ago, Pennywise said:

 

ALL of the mainstream artists do those "cheap tactics", including Gaga. But none of them could ever dream to sell this much in this era. Y'all are delusional if you think this is not an achievement imo. 

Of course it's an achievement. I never said it wasn't. But facts are facts: Taylor has a large and insanely committed fanbase that inflate numbers like these. I'm part of that fanbase. 

[julz 5,793]

this happened here in the Philippines, they really did an event to premier her music video..and that crowd 

 

[elijahfan 25,225]

3 hours ago, Pennywise said:

 

ALL of the mainstream artists do those "cheap tactics", including Gaga. But none of them could ever dream to sell this much in this era. Y'all are delusional if you think this is not an achievement imo. 

I've said it in another thread already and I'll say it again: selling multiple different versions for fans to choose from is one thing, but to sell a ****ing clock that makes it mandatory to get 4 copies to complete is taking it to another level. Don't tell me you couldn't print a ****ing clock on one single copy.