[Letícia L.]

[TroubleSwift]

At 1:53 Jake Miller sings Shake It Off

[Finny]

Originally posted by TroubleSwift

At 1:53 Jake Miller sings Shake It Off

who

[revel8]

HITS predict 1989 will easily be no 1 again on BB 200 next week.

YOUR TOP 15: It looks like a race is brewing for the #1 best-selling album next week. Taylor Swift and Pentatonix are both hovering around 190k in sales. Tay Tay will take a wide lead once track sales and streaming are added in, however. Here’s how it looks with only three weekends left before Christmas. Sigh.

Taylor Swift (Big Machine) 185-195k / 235-245k SPS
Pentatonix (RCA) 185-195k / 200-210k SPS
* AC/DC (Columbia) 135-145k / 140-150k SPS
Idina Menzel (Warner Bros.) 70-75k / 75-80k SPS
Michael Buble (Reprise) 60-65k / 65-70k SPS
Garth Brooks (Pearl/RCA Nashville) 55-60k / 55-60k SPS
One Direction (SYCO/Columbia) 50-55k / 65-70k SPS
Sam Smith (Capitol) 40-45k / 60-65k SPS
* Mary J. Blige (Capitol) 40-45k / 40-45k SPS
Pink Floyd (Parlophone) 40-45k / 45-50k SPS
Michael W. Smith (Sparrow) 30-35k / 30-35k SPS
Barbra Streisand (Columbia) 30-35k / 30-35k SPS
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga (Columbia/Interscope) 30-35k / 30-35k SPS
Frozen (Walt Disney) 28-32k / 30-35k SPS
SHADYXV (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) 27-30k / 30-35k SPS

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/rumormill.cgi

[Vespertine]

Originally posted by JakeKills

When Billboard asked her about the criticism toward “Welcome to New York,” Swift felt no need to apologize. “When you write a song, you’re writing about a momentary emotion,” Swift says. “To take a song and try to apply it to every situation everyone is going through — economically, politically, in an entire metropolitan area — is asking a little much of a piece of a music.”

Does She have an answer as to why it's just plain bad, tho?

[Hunter_13]

Originally posted by JakeKills

When Billboard asked her about the criticism toward “Welcome to New York,” Swift felt no need to apologize. “When you write a song, you’re writing about a momentary emotion,” Swift says. “To take a song and try to apply it to every situation everyone is going through — economically, politically, in an entire metropolitan area — is asking a little much of a piece of a music.”

Standing by her music like a true musician.

[Vespertine]

Originally posted by JakeKills

CAN WE PUT A FIDDLE ON SHAKE IT OFF.





SCOTTY.

I can hear it though!!



I can easily imagine lots of songs on the album being country songs, tbh

[Achilles.]

Originally posted by revel8

HITS predict 1989 will easily be no 1 again on BB 200 next week.



http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/rumormill.cgi

If Pentatonix beats Her in sales (same prediction range), but not overall.

[revel8]

Also from HITS, there is an article about how Spotify may be forced to change it's business model.

REROUTING THE STREAM: Ad-supported free streaming simply isn’t putting enough change in the cash register, and that has caused the labels and publishers to rethink the issue. They’re now poised to make the most fiscally significant move since Apple agreed to increase track downloads from 99 cents to $1.29 in 2009. Negotiations between the rights holders and Spotify have been ongoing for months, with the current deals of UMG and Sony expiring in early 2015, and there’s a proposal on the table that would help the Daniel Ek-led service to convert users from free to premium, which pays a higher rate. Up to now, Spotify has been unmotivated to push for conversions, focusing instead in building its overall user base in order to boost the company’s widely anticipated IPO. Under the proposed new model, content will be accessible to free users for a limited trial period, after which users must become premium subscribers or be shut out entirely from that content.

In terms of the next pressing issue, price point, most believe that a $10 monthly subscription is too high. Apple has been negotiating for a rate reduction so that it can reduce the monthly rate for Beats Music to $4.99, and it’s likely that the rights holders will try to persuade Spotify to follow suit. The service currently charges $9.99 for premium but $4.99 for students. Will they also push Ek and company for an increased
royalty rate?

[Letícia L.]

OMG

[revel8]

Final piece from HITS today.

Taylor to move to Universal Music?

UMG insiders were expecting the company to make a deal that would keep Scott Borchetta and Big Machine as part of the Uni empire even before the word spread that Borchetta had signed on to become a mentor on the next season of American Idol. (Concurrently, the record rights from the show are rumored to be moving from Interscope to Big Machine.) It now looks like an even better bet that Borchetta will remain in the UMG family, while also giving Universal an increased chance of signing Swift after she delivers her last Big Machine album.

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/...i?news10212m01

[revel8]

Originally posted by JakeKills

If Pentatonix beats Her in sales (same prediction range), but not overall.

In that thread about how Billboard were changing the BB200 Chart formula, lots of people were saying Taylor would suffer and posting that pic, thinking it would be her downfall. So if she beats Pentatonix thanks to her song sales, then I'll just post this

[Achilles.]

[Icannot]

Blank Space is back at number 1 WW: http://kworb.net/ww/

She had two songs in the top 5. Only the Local Chanteuse.



Speak Now cover.

[Val]

Originally posted by TroubleSwift

At 1:53 Jake Miller sings Shake It Off

I never heard of him. But he's pretty good.

[Val]

LOVE her Billboard Cover. The hair/make-up. I really wish she would lose the red lipstick.

[a_little_sinner]

Dave Matthews band forum. Not tween girls. 1989 has really turned a lot of them into fans

https://antsmarching.org/forum/showt...275350&page=25

[Vine101]

The first comment http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com....html#comments

[Achilles.]

Mom.

[MissedTheTrain]

The Speak Now esque picture




Makes me miss her long hair tbh