1 Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble. 1.0000 1.0000
2 ADELE - Skyfall 0.4625 0.5000
3 PSY - Gangnam Style (강남스타일) 0.4375 0.4500
Taylor got a dark green update.
i cant believe billboard trolled us all week saying Red was in the lead, when 1D was selling around 30K more!! not cool billboard... never again am i believing any mid week news they have...
im now assuming a ballad one will be the last promo single... cant wait it to slay me.. cant wait for RED album to slay me again for the next two years...(imagine last speak now era there are no days in my life i dont listen to any of the songs on the album.) haha
I do agree that the lyrics aren't as good as her past albums, but I wouldn't go so far as to call Begin Again or IKYWT lyrically mediocre. Neither rank amongst her best written songs, but I wouldn't go so far as to put either amongst her worst-written songs.
The mediocre people are the hit-makers and she wants hits. Taylor doesn't have the power to smash on pop radio with songs produced by some unknown guy. Besides, Martin is the only producer I have a problem with, and one of his songs is brilliant. I really love Bhasker and Wilson as producers, and I think they'll be among the next big producers.
We said Fearless was a "crucial point" in her career before it was released. We said Speak Now was a "crucial point" in her career before it was released. Based off the huge success of the promo singles, it's obvious that Taylor's not going to drop off the face of the Earth because she made a pop album. Could she suffer a bit critically? Perhaps. Will she suffer commercially? Far from it.
As for why she's making a commercial album, I think it's obvious from the Esquire interview that she didn't want to peak at 18 and be remembered as a teen phenomenon. I also think she's studied Springsteen's career a lot, and it's well-known that Born In The USA was an intentionally commercial album to bring in fans. Obviously, Red and BITUSA aren't on the same level in terms of quality, but the intention is the same: bring in the mass public as fans and then release more artistic albums later on. Taylor's only 22, and after creating 3 mostly serious albums, I don't mind that she wants to take a few years to make and promote a fun pop album. She has a lifelong career as a singer-songwriter, and she can do what she wants when she wants.
You're acting like a little monster during the Born This Way era.
This is will never end since both sides have valid back-up reasons. Let's just end ***** here, one is accepting, the other one is disappointed big time.
Jared added a comment on this | 13 hours ago [about 4 PM EDT Oct 10/12]
"One Direction's bow last Monday had downloads unaccounted for during the $1 glitch that totaled more than 34k when all was totaled, therefore putting the 307k for One Direction and 312k for Taylor's "Red" off the mark. Instead One Direction had a total of 341k when all accountable was tallied.
No glitch this week however as Taylor has the best 2 day start for a new song in her career (save WANEGBT) as the running total is more than 208k so far. Even if IKYWT has a precipitous drop this weekend, its current running totals should keep it ahead of both "Begin Again" and "Red" respective debuts. Here's the totals for the period between midnight Eastern to noontime Eastern (12 hour block) That means you add totals from 1st 24 hour period to this current total :
1 Taylor Swift I Knew You Were Trouble 50235
2 ADELE Skyfall 31285
3 PSY Gangnam Style 20538
4 Maroon 5 One More Night 12985
5 Fun. Some Nights 10854
6 Taylor Swift Red 10684
7 Ke$ha Die Young 9834
8 Taylor Swift We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together 8593
9 Rihanna Diamonds 7358
10 Alex Clare Too Close 6482
This week is setting up to be Taylor's 2nd best debut week for a new song after WANEGBT's history making 623k debut. Enjoy IKYWT, BA, and Red everybody.
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I'm still pessimistic about IKYWT's debut, even if the guy explained why LWWY sold more copies.
its a show where 4 people have a list of things they wanna do before they die.. one of them wanted to ask taylor out before he died so he posed as a technician in the CMT awards and asked her out in the seat .. he gave her his phone number to txt him the reply, and she texted YES the next day.. !!
the chorus specially is amhhazingly sung.. 
get them 300K+ sales!! 
not cool billboard... 
never again am i believing any mid week news they have... 
if this is true.
the guy who proposed her during CMT 2010 ?
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