Taylor Swift enters UK album race alongside Charli xcx and Bon Jovi

[holy scheisse 22,274]

How tf is this legal lmao 🤣 I absolutely have gone from fan to hater. 

[ALGAYDO 32,671]

3 hours ago, JazmineRice said:

I feel like people don’t realize what she’s doing. She’s using her power and presence to change and alter how music can be purchased. This will be helpful for up-and-coming and future artists that are struggling to make a living or build their platform or foundation. She is setting the new norm and people are hating it, as most people hate new and successful things. But many will benefit moving forward from this form of selling product. She is actively rearranging the discourse of the music industry on sales and consumption

The way you have to go through so many mental gymnastics to even attempt at defending Taylor and her annoying ass fans  and I though Gaga fans were delusional 

[tyler k 5,330]

sorry, I hate her and hate that she's blocking other women from taking #1 

it's so narcissistic and embarrassing of her to be this desperate 

[Edonis 28,950]

I genuinely hope she loses all respect from her industry peers for this continuous display of tacky and desperate behavior. There is zero reason to be this chart hungry and I hope it bites her in the ass hard some day. 

[ALGAYDO 32,671]

28 minutes ago, tyler k said:

sorry, I hate her and hate that she's blocking other women from taking #1 

it's so narcissistic and embarrassing of her to be this desperate 

The fact that she pretends to be a feminist at any chance she gets while simultaneously trying to block every other female peer. Her hypocrisy is next-level, and the fact that her fans are too stupid to realize 

[monstertoronto 10,196]

Is she only offering these signed photo cards in the UK because it’s the territory that looks like another girl might claim number one for one week?  It’s such a transparent grab at controlling the charts and it seems less and less defensible. I mean she’s doing it because she can but what’s the end result of constantly jockeying to block other.  A few more bucks and another notch in her stats seems to be the only goal but it’s such a turnoff.  She’s owes nobody any favours but it’s also starting to feel like she just like rubbing it in everyone’s faces.  I’m actually going to see her in London soon and this kind of news makes me much less excited to see her. 

[Stephen 30,423]

2 minutes ago, monstertoronto said:

Is she only offering these signed photo cards in the UK because it’s the territory that looks like another girl might claim number one for one week?

Yep its geo locked. UK only

[monstertoronto 10,196]

1 minute ago, Stephen said:

Yep its geo locked. UK only

UGH

[olive specter 1,166]

5 hours ago, JazmineRice said:

I feel like people don’t realize what she’s doing. She’s using her power and presence to change and alter how music can be purchased. This will be helpful for up-and-coming and future artists that are struggling to make a living or build their platform or foundation. She is setting the new norm and people are hating it, as most people hate new and successful things. But many will benefit moving forward from this form of selling product. She is actively rearranging the discourse of the music industry on sales and consumption

she's not using her power to do anything but to exploit the mental illness of her fans and to milk the one sided relationship that they have with her

do you really think what she's doing could be recreated by a small or even better, a new artist? 

also. what's new about it to you? she's not making new methods of selling and buying music, she's abusing what already exists lol

[Monsterclaw 502]

2 hours ago, holy scheisse said:

How tf is this legal lmao 🤣 I absolutely have gone from fan to hater. 

this. i’m seriously thinking about selling my tickets because of this 

[Alfonso 1,550]

Ok, I won't say the thousand versions of her album are ok and that's she's not the business woman we all know she is, but what if this strategy is being forced by her team/label? I mean, I'm sure they are aware of how big her star power is at the moment and how much she can keep selling to her fans, so they probably took all of this into account for the roll out and might have even included it in the terms of her contract or promotional campaign? 

We're talking about a lot of signed copies and other albums like Speak Now TV and 1989 TV didn't even get them. They were actually rushed, perhaps because of TTPD. 

I know that from the looks of Miss Americana the Taylor Swift Company isn't as friendly as one would think. 

[Alfonso 1,550]

3 minutes ago, Monsterclaw said:

this. i’m seriously thinking about selling my tickets because of this 

Gift it to me 

Honestly speaking, don't let this affect you. It's annoying but it doesn't matter as a fan, she's not making people buy these to be able to see her perform (poor fans that bought like a thousand versions already lol; I like collecting but this is insane).

[olive specter 1,166]

1 minute ago, Alfonso said:

Ok, I won't say the thousand versions of her album are ok and that's she's not the business woman we all know she is, but what if this strategy is being forced by her team/label? I mean, I'm sure they are aware of how big her star power is at the moment and how much she can keep selling to her fans, so they probably took all of this into account for the roll out and might have even included it in the terms of her contract or promotional campaign? 

We're talking about a lot of signed copies and other albums like Speak Now TV and 1989 TV didn't even get them. They were actually rushed, perhaps because of TTPD. 

I know that from the looks of Miss Americana the Taylor Swift Company isn't as friendly as one would think. 

Lana saying "She’s told me so many times that she wants it more than anyone." while talking about Taylor and her success tells you all you need to know.

[TEANUS 15,085]

11 hours ago, Teletubby said:

Though, following a restock of The Tortured Poets Department CDs and vinyl with signed photo card on her online UK store, Taylor's now back in the race.

 

 

I genuinely am so astounded by this still every time the list of variants gets bigger. Can the chart companies limit the number of variants or something somehow idk?? I mean this is just ridiculous in every way at this point, I literally can’t think of how anyone in their right mind could think it’s AN-EE-THING-UH other than cash grabbing and chart manipulating

[Alfonso 1,550]

7 minutes ago, olive specter said:

Lana saying "She’s told me so many times that she wants it more than anyone." while talking about Taylor and her success tells you all you need to know.

There's no denying that, but I do believe her business deals get bigger and bigger and probably push things like these in order to achieve those sales. I'm sure her sales team must be insane. 

Either way, most of the fans are still taking it, let's see if the bubble breaks someday.