BS has a massive sales lead (when you remove the fake 1D insta-grat downloads) and is storming up radio.

Yeah, what's Blank Space's competition? It's getting that #1. Shake It Off is currently #1 (and will obviously start to die down with a new Taylor single), All About That Bass is losing steam, and One Direction songs usually crater after smashing out of the gate.

of course you are

I like how this bitch takes her music off Spotify so she can get more sales (because you know taking stuff off Spotify is going to get people to come out and buy her album even more) and as a result she's losing like $6 million+ a year for not having her albums on there.

Another reason not to like her. Greedy and wants the spotlight when she already has the biggest spotlight out of any artist currently.

like she gives a shit

Yeah the dispute with spotify isn't about money for Taylor. Six million is nothing for her, and she will make far less than that on album sales. She just doesn't want those Swedes making money off of her music. It's a petty feud between musicians who still haven't accepted that their mp3s are now best valued at $0. The Black Keys did the same thing earlier in the year.

There are still a million places to get the album for free. Everybody who bought (and will buy) the album was going to do it anyways.

Her second week sales were higher than any other sales week of the year, 400k. And she's looking to sell 300k in her third week. lol

Wow, say what you will about her but almost 2 million album sales in 3 weeks? That would be impressive 10 years ago but is just WTF these days

Make that 325k now lol. That's just insane.

It's T-Swizzle's world and we are all just livin in it.

Right? And she is only 24. Biggest pop star of our generation? Well on her way I think. She has kept her self super relevant without selling out/being slutty/ "edgy" on purpose like Miley.

325k is for her 3rd week, though.

She sold 400k 2nd week.

She's not a slut. Nor am I even saying Miley is. But Swift didn't feel the need to "shock" for the sake of shocking like Miley did. Cyrus seemed desperate.

That being said, it's rather unbelievable that she has been able to maintain this much success 3 albums on a row. I wonder if she will ever do a country song again? Her country albums are a guilty pleasure of mine.

Fuck off, Mag.

Red was guitar-driven, singer songwriter "country pop" with the exception of the three singles. This is different.

Red was nominated as "Best Country Album" at the Grammy's.

There's a notable marketing difference, too.

I don't think anyone's acting like Swift hasn't gone pop before.

"You Belong With Me" was a #2 song on Billboard. When she was winning tons of awards for Fearless, country music purists were already dismissing her as a "pop star." She hasn't had "country" cred in years.

1989 is mostly Swift, herself, accepting "pop star" status.

This just isn't true. She just had a song with Tim Mcgraw like a year ago "highway don't care"

I have friends who have never considered her country. So I guess we're back to where we were.

There is a difference between country-pop and dance/electro-pop though. We've seen how even the slightest change in style can significantly hurt an artists' popularity. Everyone loved Gaga when she was doing fun party songs, then she decided to start doing "serious" songs and half of her fanbase bailed.

Style is a grower.

Blank Space is really one of her better singles in a long time.

Blank Space hit No 1 on the Billboard charts. Swift became the first solo female singer in the 56-year history to succeed herself atop the charts and only the 10th act overall.

Magnus isn't impressed.

She doesn't need no more TOP 40 hits. This is already huge. Another win era from TS. I don't know how she does it. BS video is hilarious. She looks so fucking awkward. I love that scene with her hitting the tree. Seems like she could've hurt herself with that axe.

She's a smokeshow in the Blank Space video.