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BEYONCE changed the industry

1989 had 0 impact

1989

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1989 kinda started this whole streaming/Spotify feud, which is way bigger and important than the "global release date" thingy (which proved to be useless looking at the album sales this year, lol) so 1989 wins!

BEYONCE for sure. Started the surprise release trend, changed the global release date to Friday, inspired a skyscraper in a major city, mastered the concept of a visual album, Implemented catch phrases into pop culture ("I Woke Up Like Dis" "Surboardt") etc

1989's impact is all statistics-based.

1989 was riskier and caused more things in the industry to change. BEYONCE was cute for a month, let's be real.

BEYONCÉ.

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I was going to say 1989 had no impact but then remember that it made Taylor relevant outside of the states.

Its more or less her debut album here in the UK.

skyscraper? this is laughable

no one is doing visual albums so i dont see the widespread impact

what even... no one uses these catchphrases since like, march 2014

1989.

1989

Tea.

1989 for commercial success.
Self-titled for changing the industry and setting a precedent for surprise releases. Many artists started following Bey's style of marketing.