Okay? 16 year olds can make s***ty music and grow into weirdos? Is that suppose to shield you from the truth?

Someone who clearly doesn’t respect the genre besides superficial gain trying to profit from it themselves is a tale as old as time

You were a 16 year old white rapper and now you’re a white adult who belittles our greats just to prop your favorite

Very parasitic

The funny part is Drake sxn dug up his music video because he was pretending to be an insider saying he knew a response to Kendrick was coming soon

no ones's hurt. this is my first time paying attention to tayor swift first week sales tactics. reading that tweet begging her fans to buy demo versions was jarring tho. i'm not gonna pretend i know the ins and outs of the music industry so its confusing why she's lowering herself to that level. the two artists on her level that i actually listen to are Drake and Adele and they've never seemed that desperate.

with cardi b's desperation tactics. it was obvious she just wanted to beat nicki. it wasn't surprising because i always thought of cardi b as a talentless fraud who doesn't care about music. with taylor's discog, i assumed a level of artistic integrity that that tweet by her dispelled

Yup I remember that

Don’t think I’ve ever seen this dude in an album thread discussing raps of non mainstream artist

you do understand when adele set the record, the market at the time was completely different? she sold like 1 million $10 bucks itunes copies. itunes is completely dead now, and their prices were worth 1/4th of what a vinyl without shipping.

regardless, to dismiss at what TS is doing now to boost her numbers without taking into account how sales in the music industry has died down - which makes the boosting necessary in order to match a record from an older time, is disingenuous as well.

if TS sold 3M copies in 2025 first week, she probably wouldve sold like 6M in 2015 if she had the same stardom.

So its funny I was DOXXED and had a hex put on me bc I trolled some people during the funniest time in ktt history lmao. You people are sick

How am I sick when your fellow Drake stans are the ones that posted it 😂

btw any fellow chart freaks know the total units sold for morgan's "im the problem" & when is the year-end cutoff? if its this week then taylor is just in time to beat his ass with 7 days of accumulation lol

@iHype @thegreatdivine

Taylor, like Walter Yetnikoff, understands a fundamental part of the ideal album experience for the listener: the album is deeply a visual medium. That doesn’t just mean a staunch effort in the literal visual experience to accompany the music, such as music videos and variant covers, or a striking color palette. It’s about the visuals that the lyrics create through imagery, it’s about the album being framed in a specific time or mood or space or lifestyle or situation. Having a constant signature sound throughout? That adds to the sense of strong imagery

Going hard on the literal visual presentation front just engenders this

Craziness

Quite frankly, the purchasing power isn't enough to get there either

I’m the Problem is currently at 3.2M units sold.

Year-end cutoff date is end of November.

The Life of a Showgirl will most likely pass 3.2M units today, after two days of availability

Idk about all that, I think her audience is just mostly comprised of high-school to early college age white girls who think her lyrics are deep and relatable

You’re saying that like Taylor and Adele aren’t peers or like Taylor wasn’t active around the time of 25’s release

Taylor was literally at her pop peak at the time, her previous two albums had both sold 1M+ copies first week, and 1989 did 1.287M first week a year before 25 released.

They were operating under the same exact industry state at the time. 25 just sold 2M more units, no need to come up with asterisks for it

137M streams on Spotify Day 2. 45% drop.

For comparison, TTPD received 183M streams in its second day, which was a 41% drop from its first.

There’s no way he’s being serious right? lol

Exactly what I was talking about yesterday

Big taytay congrats

And f*** the brats

Kelce need to retire now

This bih selling 4m first week why you still playing football

If she didnt have 100 variants I could see the argument.

I'm neurodivergent so it's hard for me to listen to more than one artist. Listening to Taylor Swift comforts my soul and anything else is overstimulating, especially rap music.