okay, you do that

is Champagne Poetry the Rick Ross song?

this isn’t including 3 digital orders and a box set with a hoodie

people would have to listen to twenty-one pilots to complain

4 million copies

I almost fell for this

You simply have to acknowledge the persistency when it comes to her sales. She first hit 1M first week 15 years ago. Needless to say it’s unprecedented and I don’t see someone ever achieving this commercial status ever again.

we need to have an overhaul where we no longer count physical copies anymore

how many streams did the album do first week? that gets rid of the fake variant sales

digital variants are limited but it isn’t enough

now Sab lmaoooooo

labels will freak out and cry if billboard bans variants because that means almost none of their artists will do 200k+ ever again and they won't be able to mask the decline of the music industry.

man…just wait until you see their bedrooms

it’s deadass a sickness. I blame k pop

I wonder where the decline comes from? Is it a Covid thing??

More options

Combination of multiple things

People are also tired of new music

Taylor Swift da 🐐 no 🧢

I don’t think it’s a decline. It’s that everyone is streaming and no one is buying music like these sales suggest they are. Taylor is still doing crazy streaming numbers.

More options in terms of consumption/artists or more options in terms of being entertained by other things?

And some of you think these shenanigans Taylor has been pulling aren't pathetic lmao.

The drop off of quality “hits” in the 2020s in general has been crazy to witness. Of course there’s still hits by the definition, but nothing that really reminds me of how hit songs would capture a moment in the 2010s

As it stands, there aren't 15 mainstream acts who can debut with 200k+ units so they wouldn't be missing much.

I'd guess other things
Certain listeners have made the shift and then there's some that haven't
Taylor's fans still obsessed with her, their attention and allegiance is to her so she's doing well
But I feel like hip-hop fans' attention is more broken up, they listen to a lot of podcast, watch streamers, things of that nature that leads to less music consumption

As someone who has always hated the singles on albums and was disgusted with billboard bait and hit chasing

I love where the industry is going

Just give me classic albums and I’ll purchase them

S*** gets worse every year since the 2020s

Luther exists.