I think yes. Apart from far back in the early 2000s heydays, very few albums of the past few years that are core pop, not country-pop like Red or soul-infused like 21, have had blockbuster sales. Until 1989.
I think yes. Apart from far back in the early 2000s heydays, very few albums of the past few years that are core pop, not country-pop like Red or soul-infused like 21, have had blockbuster sales. Until 1989.
Taylor Swift is like Justin Bieber/1D/The other band counterpart
Her music will continue to sell because it speaks to prepubescent girls (and sometimes boys).
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
Katy is nothing like Bieber/1D in terms of strong fanbase. Nor does she explicitly speak to the same demographic. Sure Cali Gurls, Teenage Dream are cutesy but she still had whip cream busting out her breasts and kicked off her career kissing girls. Taylor is cookie clean, so she'll access that fanbase easier.
Britney doesn't speak to them either. Her fanbase (raging gays for most part) spend their $20 on pills to dance to their illegal copy of Femme Fatale.
No single one of those has been as out-of-the-box successful as 1989. A lot of them got good numbers through longevity but none of them exploded like 1989 did.
No single one of those has been as out-of-the-box successful as 1989. A lot of them got good numbers through longevity but none of them exploded like 1989 did.
No single one of those has been as out-of-the-box successful as 1989. A lot of them got good numbers through longevity but none of them exploded like 1989 did.
I feel like being super successful is enough. Albums rarely explode, but that fact they sold a lot shows you can be album sellers with pure pop albums.
Only very few popstars aren't able to sell albums. Most of them don't struggle. Taylor just sells more than most of them but that doesn't mean that they "can't sell albums".
The whole "pop songs can't sell albums" excuse is dumb. You can create good pop music like Taylor and sell.
Either way, Taylor is an exception. No one can sell like her anyway, but it's true that pop songs sell albums. Not as many albums as the phenomenal Taylor Swift but they do sell.
It's not the singles who help sell albums but the perception that an artist is good overall, hence why some artists like Mumford & Sons and Lana Del Rey sold pretty well their albums
1989's performance is just reinforcing the reality that Taylor is a consistent album seller and busting the notion claimed by some on atrl that her album sales were mainly down to her being in the Country genre. 2014 has shown a massive decline in Country genre album sales and no Country artist is selling albums like Taylor.
1989's performance WW so far is a big improvement on Red era. This is highlighting how much easier it is to sell pop music to international markets and the reason that some other pop starts had more global success was largely down to Country music being a hard sell in most markets. Now Taylor is also making pop music she is also achieving notable success globally.
In essence the 1989 era has just underlined that Taylor is an anomaly. She has switched genres and is achieving even more success than before. She is now 9 years in since her first single was released and is clearly still growing in popularity 5 albums in. That is very hard to do. Red era was very successful but 1989 is shaping up to be more successful both in sales of singles, albums and concert tickets.
