Lol cut the crap. Dark Horse and Happy will both be 2014 6m sellers.
Taylor has a huge (most likely the biggest) fanbase, but her universal appeal is all PR made.
Ed Sheeran deserves an award for biggest improvement between consecutive albums.
The way he went from the most cliche, boring, hacky singer-songwriter of the millennium to a very talented, well-constructed, good quality delivering artist over the course of a single album is astonishing.
Streaming services have taken a lot from singles sales,
and a lot of hit singles have relied on streaming, youtube points, payola to become hits, and not in sales, like Love Me Harder which is in it's 4th week in the top ten and just cracked Gold.
Ed Sheeran deserves an award for biggest improvement between consecutive albums.
The way he went from the most cliche, boring, hacky singer-songwriter of the millennium to a very talented, well-constructed, good quality delivering artist over the course of a single album is astonishing.
I don't see an astonishing improvement between the two albums. You got cliche (a song like "A Team" isn't cliche???), boring and hacky with the first album, then you get an obvious attempt of trying to gain Justin Timberlake-type popularity with the second. At least his first album had some identity. I've seen better transitioning.
Ed Sheeran deserves an award for biggest improvement between consecutive albums.
The way he went from the most cliche, boring, hacky singer-songwriter of the millennium to a very talented, well-constructed, good quality delivering artist over the course of a single album is astonishing.
