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Music News: Adele, Taylor, Rihanna, Sade, etc. confirmed for Q4 releases
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Originally posted by WayTooHonest13
Huge drops?
Selling 3mil copies for Oct. 22 to Dec. 31 is a drop?
Ok. 😘
And yes, she has only sold 4mil in full, but that's because Taylor is a cult artist. She has a devout following and does not need to draw in more.
And taylor sold out 4 nights at Staples in 5minutes, 3 stadiums all in
under 1 minute, and Quicken Loans Arena in 15 seconds, not to mention all other shows on the tour were sold out in minutes as well.
But we won't get into touring yet. I don't want to scalp you completely. We'll wait a couple of weeks for that.
😘😘😘😘😘
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Yes, when you're comparison is Adele. I'm talking longer than the initial hype period after the thing is released, duh. I mean I never heard about Red hitting #1 about a year and a half post-release. I never heard about Red having 3 US #1s, one the longest post-album release ever. I never even heard about Red being the top-selling album in the US two years in a row. Hmm, strange, wonder who that was, and who she blocked out...😘
Selling out arenas like that just means that you have a bunch of little girl fans begging to their parents to buy them tickets. Adele has the wider appeal, Adele has the sales, Adele has the industry clout, Adele has the more acclaim... 😘😘😘😘😘
I love how you didn't even debate the can't sing statement, guess you know Adele has the voice too 😘
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Originally posted by Mike91
People using metacritic for acclaim.
The GP's acclaim >>>>
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oh I agree MC is mostly useless. But if we're gonna talk GP acclaim, let's remember that Taylor has been getting it consistently for nearly 10 years now. All I'm saying is that it's a bit premature to say Adele is gonna destroy everyone when she has not yet indicated she has that kind of staying power An "ARTPOP will instantly go platinum"-sized mess
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Originally posted by Cockney Cupcake
As if 1 point is a huge difference but i wonder Why dont you post the details which are more interesting...
21- 76 based on 34 critics / User Score 7.5 based 335 users
Red - 77 based on 23 critics /User Score 6.6 based on 275 users
Oh i see why
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I love you Cupcake. Okay? Okay.
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Originally posted by Mike91
People using metacritic for acclaim.
The GP's acclaim >>>>
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Originally posted by WayTooHonest13
Speak Now.
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Originally posted by Vespertine
oh I agree MC is mostly useless. But if we're gonna talk GP acclaim, let's remember that Taylor has been getting it consistently for nearly 10 years now. All I'm saying is that it's a bit premature to say Adele is gonna destroy everyone when she has not yet indicated she has that kind of staying power An "ARTPOP will instantly go platinum"-sized mess
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One day Adele will convert your sullied soul into a Daydreamer and we will welcome you with open arms
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One Direction's releasing this year? Has there been a year they dont release.
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Sade releases music very 5-10 years. Take her off the list. Adele is not very interested in releasing music for 5 years based on comments she made after she won her Grammy Awards.
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Just give me Taylor's album, I don't really care about the rest.
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Originally posted by daydreams
Yes, when you're comparison is Adele. I'm talking longer than the initial hype period after the thing is released, duh. I mean I never heard about Red hitting #1 about a year and a half post-release. I never heard about Red having 3 US #1s, one the longest post-album release ever. I never even heard about Red being the top-selling album in the US two years in a row. Hmm, strange, wonder who that was, and who she blocked out...😘
Selling out arenas like that just means that you have a bunch of little girl fans begging to their parents to buy them tickets. Adele has the wider appeal, Adele has the sales, Adele has the industry clout, Adele has the more acclaim... 😘😘😘😘😘
I love how you didn't even debate the can't sing statement, guess you know Adele has the voice too 😘
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Girl bye, you sound so SILLY trying to act like Taylor has no industry clout, only little girl fans, and worst of all no LONGEVITY Taylor is easily the most consistently successful artist of the last decade.
Obviously Taylor doesn't have the best voice in the world (yes, she's not as good of a singer as Adele, not that that is relevant to this thread about success though) but she has been getting better and better every year. Meanwhile Adele's overrated voice has already been damaged by her bad technique, hence why she couldn't launch a wonderfully successful tour like Taylor can.
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Originally posted by L/\DY G/\G/\
One Direction's releasing this year? Has there been a year they dont release.
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They're on a yearly album release contract. I forget if it was for 3 or 5 more albums after UAN, but this will be their 3rd yearly release.
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Originally posted by frankru2010
Sade releases music very 5-10 years. Take her off the list. Adele is not very interested in releasing music for 5 years based on comments she made after she won her Grammy Awards.
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So what are you trying to say? Adele won't release this year? She is .
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Sade
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Originally posted by Vespertine
oh I agree MC is mostly useless. But if we're gonna talk GP acclaim, let's remember that Taylor has been getting it consistently for nearly 10 years now. All I'm saying is that it's a bit premature to say Adele is gonna destroy everyone when she has not yet indicated she has that kind of staying power An "ARTPOP will instantly go platinum"-sized mess
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Taylor does not have the GP's acclaim she has her target audience's acclaim. Adele has the GP acclaim since her 19 days and it got bigger with 21 .
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Here for Rih, Taylor and Susan
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Originally posted by BtDecember
Speak Now sold 4 Million copies without any pop hits and with all its single underperformed.
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"Mine" peaked at number-three on the Hot 100 and was a really big radio hit. I still hear it on pop radio all the time. That would definitely be considered a "pop hit". "Back to December" was played pretty frequently when it was out, too. All of the singles peaked pretty high considering they were all country singles.
"Mine" — #3.
"Back to December" — #18.
"Mean" — #11.
"The Story of Us" — #41.
"Sparks Fly" — #17.
"Ours" — #13.
With the exception of "The Story of Us", I think her singles from that era did pretty well considering they were all country songs. "Mine" was in the top 5, and "Back to December", "Mean", "Sparks Fly", and "Ours" all peaked in the top 20, with "Mean" peaking just outside of the top 10. That definitely wasn't a flop era for her.
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Originally posted by Vespertine
Girl bye, you sound so SILLY
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And you sound so pressedT as per usual
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Originally posted by frankru2010
Sade releases music very 5-10 years. Take her off the list. Adele is not very interested in releasing music for 5 years based on comments she made after she won her Grammy Awards.
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She joked about that after the 2012 Grammys, but then she released "Skyfall" later that year, so... That right there proves your theory wrong. Plus, she flat out said that it was a joke. More specifically, she said something along the lines of, "5 years? More like 5 days 'till I go back into the studio!" or something like that. And she kind of confirmed the album title and that it would be released this year via her Twitter account last month. You tried, though.
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Originally posted by Cockney Cupcake
Taylor does not have the GP's acclaim she has her target audience's acclaim. Adele has the GP acclaim since her 19 days and it got bigger with 21 .
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So what you're trying to tell me is that all four of Taylor's multi-platinum albums did not sell to the general public? Because few albums have done better than hers over the last several years besides 21; are you seriously telling me the only way to show you have GP acclaim is if you sell 20m+? Poor EVERYONE's faves then, not just Taylor, with that faulty logic
Also, you've been woefully misled if you don't think Adele has just as much of a target audience as anyone else, which I must admit she + her team were very brilliant to market 21 towards. It's called the "I'm tired of sex selling + real music is dead!!!!" snobby crowd, along with middle-aged housewives (hi, mom ), which are coincidentally the groups of people that still buy music. It's understandable that 21 sold so well when you market to that audience. Good job to Adele on that front
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Originally posted by TalkThatTalk
fake fan
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Ehm NO. I just don't want her to have two messy eras overlapped (R8 and 'Home')...
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Originally posted by Vespertine
Girl bye, you sound so SILLY trying to act like Taylor has no industry clout, only little girl fans, and worst of all no LONGEVITY Taylor is easily the most consistently successful artist of the last decade.
Obviously Taylor doesn't have the best voice in the world (yes, she's not as good of a singer as Adele, not that that is relevant to this thread about success though) but she has been getting better and better every year. Meanwhile Adele's overrated voice has already been damaged by her bad technique, hence why she couldn't launch a wonderfully successful tour like Taylor can.
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Alas, another person who doesn't read before responding. If you used context clues, you would be able to tell that didn't say that Taylor doesn't have any industry clout, I said Adele has "the industry clout" meaning she has more of it over Taylor. Not that she doesn't have longevity as an artist, but rather album longevity
CC is right, Taylor has her young target audience and that's about it. She's a business, not a true singer. Adele's talents are completely pertinent here because one day Taylor will be too old to dance around in high waisted shorts and connect with those little girls. That will be the end of these sell-out Taylor tours. And as much as she gets heat on here for it, Adele's standing and singing not only has wider appeal, but it doesn't have an age limit and will continue to allow Adele to be successful in any capacity she wants for years to come. She is anything but overrated.
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