Look at how, after the huge smash of Fearless the album + the singles Love Story/You Belong with Me...we got Mine with a #3 debut after freaking 297k then 176k the following week. That's good proof of country giving 600k? No ma'am.
ETA: This is in response to an apparently deleted post that claimed that if Taylor released a country lead single she would have started with 600k easily.
HDD isn't really the best at predicting digital sales either. Albums are their forté. I would wait for Billboard before any harsh judgments. Taylor is pretty unpredictable.
Yep. And it's getting dark updates and lost 10 percent of the difference with the second song.
Pop wasn't really the best choice. I wonder how the album and second single will fare.