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Originally posted by Eternium
Mixtapes (not sure if you know what those are, but basically illegally recorded cassettes), bootleg CDs, tons of retailers weren't counted for Nielsen Soundscan (see: Sony BMG, Columbia House, etc.).
On the flip-side, Taylor has an extra day, her sales can go from 12:01 AM - 11:59 PM (tons of 24 hour music stores), every retailer now counts (see: Starbucks, Papa Johns), manufacturing has allowed Taylor to put different incentives (random sets of polaroids, M&Gs/tour tickets for certain album purchases), etc. Yes, Taylor has to deal with illegal downloading (which was out and popular by the time OIDIA ever came out, ever hear of Napster?) but just about everything else is in her favor. Illegal downloading hurts longevity more than it does debuts, too. You realize the digital market has front-loaded album sales and not weakened them, right?
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Beyoncé stans RUNNING in here to mock Britney for having an album that debuted with 1.3 million and went diamond
Congrats to Taylor if she breaks it. Won't change the fact that Britney had back to back diamond albums when NONE of her contemporaries were doing it
And yea, Taylor getting an extra day, the front loaded sales of the 2010s and the fact that she's basically going out of her way (with the extra incentives) to try to break are factors just as legitimate legitimate as the overall sales climate of the early 2000s
To deny that is ridiculous. There's a reason why its mainly stans of a certain singer who are here trying to do just that though
And they have the nerve to talk about the Army being insecure