Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ debuts at #1 on Billboard 200

[fishinmyhair 496]

Carly isn’t even top 10?? :(

[nATAH 45,146]

  On 10/31/2022 at 12:04 AM, monstertoronto said:

Absolutely insane. The fact that the vast majority of her physical sales was vinyl.  Gaga better should lean into vinyl next time and not wait a full calendar year to offer a vinyl version with any kind of artwork at all.  The clear only or picture disc options with clear sleeves was such a weird choice to limit us too when the artwork for the album was so good. But back to the topic…. Slay Taylor, legendary numbers  

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chromatica had so much potential for marketing opportunities with the tribe symbol theme

they even started it with the picture disc 7 inch vinyls but for some odd reason, 911 had next to no merch for its mini-era... i was super excited for it too

[monstertoronto 9,032]

  On 10/31/2022 at 12:35 AM, fishinmyhair said:

Carly isn’t even top 10??

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Do we know where she landed?

[butthole 10,099]

Slaylor strikes again 

I just realized that's not a turban on that little thing.

[TheOriginalOne 10,027]

This is insane! She’s so powerful. Sometimes I get a bit pressed wishing that Gaga could push these numbers but then I remember how much work and effort Taylor puts into her art (not to say Gag doesn’t). She definitely deserves it. I can see another AOTY award in her future. I haven’t heard Midnights just yet but I will be streaming it all day tomorrow during work. 

[dimitristhe 1,556]

  On 10/30/2022 at 7:01 PM, Teletubby said:

Midnights arrived after months of pre-release promotion and pre-orders — and its sales figure is bolstered by an array of available versions and variants of the album. It is available to purchase in a standard digital album (both clean and explicit); a deluxe digital album (clean and explicit, each with seven additional songs); an iTunes-exclusive version with a bonus spoken word track (clean and explicit); four standard CD editions (each with a different cover, both clean and explicit); four vinyl LP editions (each with a different cover and colored vinyl); and a cassette tape. Target is also selling an exclusive “Lavender” edition of the album on CD and colored-vinyl LP, with the CD boasting three bonus tracks.

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21 different editions. That’s a marketing genius. 
Gaga should have done something like this with Chromatica. I hated the vinyls that we had at the album release. The trifold was f*cking awesome.

[MessyTop 14,387]

  On 10/31/2022 at 1:29 AM, dimitristhe said:

21 different editions. That’s a marketing genius. 
Gaga should have done something like this with Chromatica. I hated the vinyls that we had at the album release. The trifold was f*cking awesome.

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Yes.  The original Chromatica vinyl where so ugly and sad. And COVID had nothing to do with it, everyone else was releasing beautiful vinyl in 2020. It took a year and half to get a proper gatefold edition of Chromatica 

[Anderson123 36,723]

Not this turning into a  "Gaga should've ..." thread again.  

[monstertoronto 9,032]

  On 10/31/2022 at 12:54 AM, NATAH said:

chromatica had so much potential for marketing opportunities with the tribe symbol theme

they even started it with the picture disc 7 inch vinyls but for some odd reason, 911 had next to no merch for its mini-era... i was super excited for it too

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I do feel she sort of abandoned the era when she released and we were in a pandemic and racial reckoning. She even shut down her online store the week of release and it remained off for weeks. I bet she just told them to stop making new things.   It was terrible luck and timing. 

[thatfoxyfeeling 12,904]

  On 10/31/2022 at 3:11 AM, Anderson123 said:

Not this turning into a  "Gaga should've ..." thread again.  

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It’s kinda inevitable because you can see the difference with Taylor’s label/marketing team. 

[Anderson123 36,723]

  On 10/31/2022 at 3:32 AM, thatfoxyfeeling said:

It’s kinda inevitable because you can see the difference with Taylor’s label/marketing team. 

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Yes but we've seen "heavy promo" Gaga from The Fame til ARTPOP and she said she was miserable. Everything she's been doing since Cheek To Cheek has been 100% her vision now and she rarely takes breaks or goes more than 2 years between some big project so I don't understand what fans want lol. She has won an Oscar, she keeps winning Grammys , I don't think there's much to see about Taylor's marketing team. Gaga is doing pretty well.

[Ayoherewego 446]

I understand why she made these numbers, this is my second Taylor album after her debut album that I replay from start to finish and I listen to the 3am version 

[Tinnitus15 50,829]

See this is a consistency 

[Slappy 392]

  On 10/31/2022 at 7:43 AM, Tinnitus15 said:

See this is a consistency 

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I love the fact that from her debut to Evermore it looks like a normal distribution 

[Taylucifer 5,082]

  On 10/30/2022 at 11:50 PM, MessyTop said:

I mean we have this  glory of a gif: 

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so true, Lover ate