Taylor Swift misses #1 on Billboard 200 by 1k units

[Teletubby 156,001]

Taylor Swift’s Lover: Live From Paris returns to the Billboard 200, reentering at No. 2 with 202,500 equivalent album units earned (up from nothing the week previous).

Of Lover: Live From Paris’ 202,500 units earned in the tracking week ending Jan. 16, album sales comprise the entire number (it reenters at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), with vinyl sales accounting for 161,000 (the largest sales week for a live album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991) and digital download sales accounting for the remaining sales. The set has no SEA or TEA units powering its reentry, since the album was not available on streaming services (thus, customers could not stream songs from the album directly), or through digital retailers such as iTunes, so customers couldn’t purchase songs from the album directly.

In addition to the vinyl release, Lover: Live From Paris saw its debut as a digital download album, exclusively through Swift’s webstore, for a limited time. On Jan. 16, the final day of the latest chart’s tracking week, the set was made available in Swift’s store across four variants for six hours only, each priced at $4.99. One was the standard eight-song album, and the other three each contained the standard eight songs plus one unique live bonus track of a Lover album cut performed during The Eras Tour (“False God,” “I Think He Knows” and “Paper Rings”).

1. Bad Bunny — Debí Tirar Más Fotos • 203,500 units
2. Taylor Swift —  Lover: Live From Paris  •  202,500 units
3. SZA — SOS • 102,000 units
4. Kendrick Lamar  —  GNX • 64,000 units
5. Lil Baby —  WHAM • 55,000 units
6. Sabrina Carpenter —  Short n’ Sweet • 48,000 units
7. Billie Eilish —  Hit Me Hard and Soft • 40,000 units
8. The Wicked Soundtrack • 39,000 units
9. Morgan Wallen —  One Thing at a Time • 39,000 units
10. Gracie Abrams —  The Secret of Us • 36,000 units
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[bionic 50,109]

In her flop era, she's over etc!

[DoctorScent 757]

Oh lord I'm afraid what kind of new digital versions she have in store for next week🤣

[VasilisVas 5,205]

Is this finally the beginning of the end? 😅

[Teletubby 156,001]

2 minutes ago, DoctorScent said:

Oh lord I'm afraid what kind of new digital versions she have in store for next week🤣

she doesn't have more vinyl copies, next week this album will be out of the Billboard 200.

[DoctorScent 757]

1 minute ago, Teletubby said:

she doesn't have more vinyl copies, next week this album will be out of the Billboard 200.

I bet she recording a commentery for every track for a digital release as we speak. That's like idk 20 new versions? 😅 If I see correctly she released 4 different digital versions this week too?

[Luv u Sum 2,420]

and milking her fans to buy 4 digital albums to get 4 songs wasn't enough lol 

[4th Time Around 4,907]

finally, lets hope she goes away for awhile and actually tries to put some time into a fresh direction for her music. midnights and ttpd were huge quality regressions from folklore/evermore

[ThisGuyTony 32,475]

[Morphine Prince 108,426]

Talent won. 

Bad Bunny is single-handedly dethroning American's sweetheart and US empire with his anti-colonialism and anti-gentrification messaging in his album.

We love to see it

[clownery 6,978]

Just now, Morphine Prince said:

Talent won. 

Bad Bunny is single-handedly dethroning American's sweetheart and US empire with his anti-colonialism and gentrification messaging in his album.

We love to see it

STREAM FOR CLEAN SKIN

[GagaGame 3,936]

IT'S HAPPENING, IT'S HAPPENING

[Economy 51,548]

45 minutes ago, bionic said:

In her flop era, she's over etc!

U know someone reached absolute super stardom when the standards for her flopping are a #2

 

This is giving Gagas first 3 years when a song didnt go top 3 we called it a massive flop. I remember when Alejandro only went #4 or #5 there was like a bunch of meltdowns here on the site because she was flopping so hard and her career was over 

 

Now if one of her 3rd singles went #5 wed be partying and singing "slayga"

[Bronco 16,494]

I understand the celebration. 

But y'all. She missed out by 1,000 units vs a brand new album from a Latin artist who had no competition in his genre this week (to my knowledge!). 
Considering that she shifted 202,500 units for a Live EP she's already released previously. And this is after multiple US swifties reported their orders getting cancelled as it was oversold beyond the stock. 

Save your champagne. This isn't the beginning of her fading. This is the event that makes her next album release even more OTT. 
 

[tyler k 5,330]

FLOP!