Taylor Swift's TLOAS To Drop 92% In Its Second Week

[Ladle Ghoulash 27,384]

28 minutes ago, Agunimon said:

Don't Click Play is miles better than this slop.

“Poop is better than pee” type comment 

[Zaskar 3,976]

25 Adele

 first week- 3.48 million

second week- 1.11 million

third week- 0.65 million

fourth week- 0.79 million

fifth week- 1.16 million

 

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 6,570]

13 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Anyway, welcome to the team, sister. 

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 6,570]

5 minutes ago, Zaskar said:

25 Adele

 first week- 3.48 million

second week- 1.11 million

third week- 0.65 million

fourth week- 0.79 million

fifth week- 1.16 million

 

I still feel like a 60% decline between weeks 1 and 2 is favorable over 91% and I wonder how many variants Adele released for her jump in Week 5. Also why skip over 30?

[Zaskar 3,976]

7 minutes ago, AsleepOnTheCeiling said:

I still feel like a 60% decline between weeks 1 and 2 is favorable over 91% and I wonder how many variants Adele released for her jump in Week 5. Also why skip over 30?

I think week 5 must be Xmas week, so people gifted it to each other. No such variants as far as I know.

skipped 30 as TLOAS broke the first week sale record of 25, not 30. Besides if 25 was commercial peak of Adele, Showgirl seems to be the peak of Ms Swift (unless she goes ahead and repeak in future), so it’s a peak vs peak analysis.

[Agunimon 55]

28 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

“Poop is better than pee” type comment 

Sad. I get it, though. But I think Don't Click Play is one of the better albums in pop released this year.

[Kayi 2,729]

There's nothing else I can say, eh eh 

Eh eh... Oh yeahh 

Edited 12 hours ago by Kayi

[2School4Cool 6,455]

This isn't shade at all but I’m not surprised given the lukewarm reaction to the album. Those colossal first week numbers came from the pre-release vinyl/physical sales which were based on general hype of Taylor having a new album. The album itself didn’t have the best reception, so less people returned to it the following week.

Again no shade but the first week numbers (which were excellent!!) are less of a reflection of the album’s reception and more of a reflection of the general hype of Taylor putting out new music.

[Ziggy 12,082]

11 hours ago, Teletubby said:

it's still the 5th biggest week of 2025

 

every artist has multiple variants now, Taylor would still sell more that any of them.

Sure but they wondered the actual number lol not if she’d “beat” someone or not

[Future Lovers 7,121]

11 hours ago, princedeeblebleble said:

In the case that she only had 1 of each; cd, vinyl, digital and casette the sales would be about 540k pure sales per my calculations  still a lot but nowhere near the 4m mark of 30ish variants.

that math doesn’t add up with Billboards’ counting rules

[Ziggy 12,082]

7 hours ago, andy232000 said:

Totally agree! It’s clear they were after the record.
 

Organically, if only one version is released she had 800k on lock. With 2-3 variants over 1-1.5m was on lock and that would’ve been normal still. She just realized that the more variants she put out the record was within reach and she went crazy sadly. 
 

I can’t wait to see how she’ll react once Coldplay breaks her Eras Tour record. 

What record are they beating?? I didn’t know they were even close

[Dojo 19,503]

4 hours ago, AsleepOnTheCeiling said:

 

ugly hoe 

[Alxjcgn 623]

13 hours ago, Lucas said:

I'm curious about how much she would sell without the billion variants and gimmicks in her 1st week.

1 CD, 1 vinyl, 1 digital version, that's it.

Probably still a good amount but not a lot- From everything I saw in promo she had this smirk on her face and talked this project up like she actually put thought into it.

I really want her to drop something again just to see if her fans buy back into her bullshit or finally realize she needs to just take a break and get inspired to make something good.

Come for me, but even the poets department album was awful, and whatever one came before it lol. I try to keep an open mind with any music, but her music has been unbearable for the last several years because it feels it came out of a factory. 

[Alxjcgn 623]

4 hours ago, 2School4Cool said:

This isn't shade at all but I’m not surprised given the lukewarm reaction to the album. Those colossal first week numbers came from the pre-release vinyl/physical sales which were based on general hype of Taylor having a new album. The album itself didn’t have the best reception, so less people returned to it the following week.

Again no shade but the first week numbers (which were excellent!!) are less of a reflection of the album’s reception and more of a reflection of the general hype of Taylor putting out new music.

I think the follow-up to an album speaks more volumes than the initial week, especially with the swifties who are literally calling out of work to just sit there and stream her album like it's their job.

 

[HIMe 2,114]

Mmm I sense a bit of hypocrisy here. 

Gaga did it with Born This Way (yes Amazon bought the copies, but her team still approved the deal). 

Wasn't Joanne or Chromatica also combined with tour tickets which inflated the first week sales ? 

Or DWAS being added last minute on MAYHEM, which massively helped its streaming numbers. 

 

The point being that if Gaga could do these kind of tactics to debut with a million again (let alone 4 millions), she'd do it again!