No offense but Taylor is very local. She just happens to be local to the country with the largest music industry in the world.

hmmm, so what im getting is that In one pop era Taylor has more global appeal than Katy has built in her entire career? That Katy is currently receding while Taylor is stronger than ever and Localor is currently more global than Globalty.

fascinating, thanks for bring this to my attention 2AM

This is why I struggle to bring myself to even respond to you.
Like what. the. ****.

Like you struggle to find receipts that don't make you gag on your own foot?

Like what are you even talking about right now?

Uhm OOTB sold like 4 million WW and 1.7 of that comes from the US. Didn't 1989 sell like 3.5 million outside US?

To conclude, Taylor will NEVER be as global as Katy who now has 60% of her income coming outside of North America.

well in this particular instance

Someone should do the math to find out what % of Swift's album sales are from the U.S.

you can't say 80% anymore

congrats to Katy on dominating nowhere

OOTB has sold over 4 million WW, about 2.4M outside the US.
1989 has sold 2.6M outside the US.

About 20-25% is from outside the US

60%

Hmmmm... I don't know which of you is correct! Haha.

Let me do it myself.

80% anymore about what?
Katy's dominating everywhere, which is exactly why Forbes specifically highlighted her global appeal and success not just in the US but across the world.

She has sold about 8M internationally? I know her album sales tally is somewhere north of 32M IIRC
Do the math...

Katy only has 1 album to do that as well?
I dont get your point
Also red sold on par with prism outside of the US (6.2-4.1=2.1m outside of the US)
(3.6-1.6=2.0m outside of the US)

Mediatraffic hasnt updated fearless in forever so idk whether its at 9m or 9.5m but it did on par with OOTB

And 1989 will do on par with TD by the end of the era

Anyways this outside of the US argument is so silly, its like arguing with the navy and only talking about sales outside of europe.

Also taylors sold like 27-28m in the US with 5 albums and a christmas bonus since 2006
rihanna has sold 29.6m worldwide with 7 albums since 2005

I can see why youre trying to discount the US tbh

Hahhaha i ****ing love you.
Its amazing how she built up so much global appeal with just 1 pop era and some of her country albums were as huge as the other girls releases internationally.
Truly a legend tbh