'Beyonce' vs '1989' - which LP is gonna be more remembered?
10 years from now?
Both of these releases came out with a bang and had huge impact on music industry. Critically and commercially. But which album will be more remembered in 2025?
"Beyonce" seems to have pretty good Grammy AOTY chances but "1989" era slayage is having much more longevity... which most likely results in solid Grammy chances in 2016 as well..,
As an album, self titled. It was such an event and each time an artist plays around with more creative ways of release with any kind of surprise element (and since ST dropped, it's been happening much, much more frequently), Bey's album gets referenced as the standard for that.
I think the singles from 1989 will be more remembered and likely some of the more iconic and most memorable Taylor songs when people look back at her career in the future.
It's acclaiming is extremely biased towards the release strategy.
Meanwhile a year later it's still garnering even more acclaim and accolades, popping up on 2014 year end reviews in spite of being a 2013 release etc. Such tired shade.
BEYONCÉ is forgotten and the frontloaded sales are proof
y'all keep talking about front loaded?
clearly it wasn't! She sold 617,00 in the first week and now its at 2.1 million! You act like she sold 617,000 and only sold 1 mili! now that would be considered front loaded hun!