He became the most listened to artist in a day on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Prime
“I paid Spotify to listen to Taylor Swift’s new album ad-free. It turns out he also uploaded the songs to YouTube, where I have a subscription. I don’t mind at all,” says one man. “Oh, relax. I have Spotify, but I paid Deezer to see if the sound is better there.” The conversation between two strangers took place on October 22 at the football field next to the publishing house of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Midnight there too (midnight – ba), Taylor Swift’s tenth studio album, released the day before, was theme number 1. And how many more top spots it had to conquer. To no one’s surprise, Miss Swift broke 102 records with it. Only for 14 days. And the first records that fell were when the two strangers were discussing the tray. At the time, the singer, whom fans affectionately refer to as Tay Tay, was already topping the charts most streams in 24 hours on the three largest streaming platforms of music. He broke the records of Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Prime.
The 13 songs on the album tell “the story of 13 sleepless nights spread throughout my life,” explained Ms. Swift, who wrote both the lyrics and the music, on her Instagram account. Together they form “a complete picture of the intensity of this mystical and crazy hour”. On Spotify alone, the charming blonde garnered over 228 million plays in one day. She surprised her fans with 7 other tracks titled “Tracks at 3 am”.
The 32-year-old singer, also popularly nicknamed Blondie due to her blonde hair, began her career in the country genre. She gradually refocused on pop music and became the biggest star.
On his new album, he abandons his most recent indie-folk series. The pop sound was absent from Evermore and Folklore, his two previous albums. They were recorded during the pandemic. “Folklore” won Album of the Year at the 2021 Grammy Awards. With it, Tay Tay broke his own record for the only woman with more than a Grammy for an album – she already has 3. And all the critics are categorical: the fourth is coming. They rate the Midnight album extremely high, even The Guardian, The Independent and Rolling Stone give it top marks. And they even write that Taylor’s fans are right about her when they call her “The Music Industry”.
Immediately after its release, the album tops the Billboard album chart, scoring the highest weekly sales in nearly seven years, the publication’s website reported.
Taylor Swift secured first place with a whopping 1,578 million units equivalent (number of albums sold, most listened to on the Internet), sold in the United States. The latest album to achieve the highest weekly sales was 25 by British singer Adele, which sold 3.482 million equivalent units in December 2015.
After being at the top of the leaderboard, Tay Tay now shares the lead with Barbra Streisand for most number 1 albums among singers – 11 each. The number is higher than the singer’s album number due to a scandal between her and her former publisher. After not being able to purchase the master rights to her first 6 albums, Ms. Swift re-recorded 2 of them: “Fearless” and “Red”. Added to their names in parentheses Taylor’s version. She wouldn’t be able to re-record them if she wasn’t the author of the music and lyrics too.
The megastar is also the author of all the compositions and lyrics of her new album. And just 2 weeks after its release, the singer achieved something that had never happened before. Billboard’s entire top 10 in the US was made up entirely of her tracks. Until now, the maximum result was 9 and was held by Canadian rapper Drake.
Of course, it wasn’t without criticism. The word “fat” is no longer part of the music video for his song Anti-hero (antihero – ba). It is she who heads “Billboard” both in the United States and around the world.
In the clip, Swift walks up a ladder that says FAT as her alter ego shakes her head in frustration. Critics claim the scene is “fatphobic”. Therefore, now in the scene after stepping on the scales, Taylor’s other image only has a downside.
And while some have criticized it, many have defended it. Among them was Whoopi Goldberg, according to whom people looked at Taylor Swift and wondered what to criticize her for.
The song itself is one of the most personal the megastar has ever written. In it, she talks about her about her various fears. In the specific episode, the singer visualizes her experience with eating disorders and the imposition of the “perfect image” that popular personalities “must” maintain. In another part of the song she calls herself an “antihero”, and in a third she asks listeners “feel my narcissism disguised as altruism”.
Before hitting so many records, Taylor Swift went a long way. At 14, she convinced her parents to move to Nashville, Tennessee, where she could pursue a career in country music. She only at the age of 17 she released her first album that bears her name. The sound is country, on tour Taylor wears an acoustic guitar and cowboy boots.
Songs like Tim McGraw, Picture to burn (Photo for burning – ba) quickly become hits. And with the second tray Fearless (fearless – from English ez.) the blonde is establishing itself as one of the brightest stars. Then he grabs the attention of his favorites: the British rock band Def Leppard. They immediately decide that it is with Miss Swift that they want to participate in the “Crossroads”. It is a format in which music stars play their songs together. “We’ve been invited for years, but we didn’t want to do it with bands like Bon Jovi, who we’re in the same genre with,” explains their lead singer Joe Elliott. And he explains why they chose Taylor.
“When I heard her song Love Story (love story – from English), taken from the story of Romeo and Juliet, I was speechless. The very fact that An 18 year old girl can write something so beautiful, it blew me away, “says the musician. Even then he realized that there is no roof for the singer.
Whether he was right is perhaps clear from a joke by director Andrew Dominik. When asked why he called his Marilyn Mondo movie “Blonde” and not “Blondie,” he replied half jokingly, half seriously: Because then everyone would think it’s Taylor Swift.
Taylor Swift broke several records with her latest album.
