Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor's Version)

Bloody hell. We're looking at the same album in two versions in the year end top 20, maybe even the top 10!
 
According to Wikipedia, 1989 has sold 1,127,000 in the UK as of October 2022. I assume we'll get an updated figure in the music week article this week.

What I found more interesting though was where it ended up in the year end charts since release:

2014: #11
2015: #6
2016: #44
2017- 2019: not Top 100
2020: #97
2021: #59
2022: #33

And it was #11 of 2023 to the end of September.

Haven has an OCC quote from last week or so saying 754k physical and 400k digital now so 1.154 now in hard sales.
 
This Taylor Version release reminded me of how back then Ryan Adams released HIS version of 1989 with all of the songs reimagined (minus the bonus tracks).

His Style and Wildest Dreams still slap.
 
Ah yes, that time a well known sexual predator decided to mansplain Taylor's own album to her. I rmember it well.
 
did he do it out of SPITE? What's the story? :o
No, we didn't find out about him until a bit later on. Adams usually recorded 2 or 3 albums a year and decided to make "Ryan's Version" of 1989 for kicks. The reviews were not positive and there was a feeling that the whole thing was just a bit patronising. Anyway, Google "Ryan Adams Phoebe Bridgers".
 
Thought I'd sit down properly with this but I can't even get past the new Welcome to New York



It's giving KARAOKE.
 
HITS Projections has this outselling Midnight's first week in the US...

Top ten debuts this decade
  1. 1,587,000 - 1989 (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift *Official Billboard figure TBD*
  2. 1,578,000 - Midnights, Taylor Swift
  3. 846,000 - Folklore, Taylor Swift
  4. 839,000 - 30, Adele
  5. 716,000 - Speak Now (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift
  6. 613,000 - Certified Lover Boy, Drake
  7. 605,000 - Red (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift
  8. 521,500 - Harry's House, Harry Styles
  9. 501,000 - One Thing at a Time, Morgan Wallen
  10. 497,000 - Legends Never Die, Juice Wrld
 
Final numbers even bigger

Top 25 US sales weeks- all time

12/12/2015 1| 25, Adele 3,377,885
4/8/2000 2| No Strings Attached, 'N Sync 2,415,859
8/11/2001 3| Celebrity, 'N Sync 1,879,955
6/10/2000 4| Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem 1,760,049
12/9/2000 5| Black & Blue, Backstreet Boys 1,591,191
11/11/2023 6| 1989(Taylors Version), Taylor Swift; 1,359,000
6/15/2002 7| Eminem Show, Eminem 1,320,000
6/3/2000 8| Oops!…I Did It Again, Britney Spears 1,319,193
11/15/2014 9| 1989, Taylor Swift 1,286,544
1/6/2001 10| 1, Beatles 1,258,667
12/2/2017 11| REPUTATION, Taylor Swift 1,216,416
11/10/2012 12| Red, Taylor Swift 1,208,290
1/9/2016 13| 25, Adele 1,157,296
3/19/2005 14| The Massacre, 50 Cent 1,140,000
11/5/2022 15| Midnights, Taylor Swift 1,140,000
6/5/1999 16| Millenium, Backstreet Boys 1,133,505
12/19/2015 17| 25, Adele 1,112,162
6/11/2011 18| Born This Way, Lady Gaga 1,108,403
4/10/2004 19| Confessions, Usher 1,096,000
12/5/1998 20| Double Live, Garth Brooks 1,085,373
11/4/2000 21| Chocolate Starfish And The Hotdog Flavored Water, Limp Bizkit 1,054,511
1/2/1993 22| Bodyguard, Soundtrack 1,061,000
11/13/2010 23| Speak Now, Taylor Swift 1,046,718
2/28/2004 24| Feels Like Home, Norah Jones 1,020,000
6/28/2008 25| Tha Carter III, Lil' Wayne 1,005,545
 
Given that we're supposed to be in some sort of post-album era, her success in this regard is really impressive.
 
Taylor Swift Charts All 21 Songs From ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ on the Hot 100

11/6/2023
By Xander Zellner

She places eight songs in the top 10 simultaneously for a second time.

Taylor Swift returns with another massive week on Billboard’s charts (dated Nov. 11), as all 21 songs from the standard edition of her latest re-recorded album, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), land on the latest Billboard Hot 100.

The set debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, her 13th leader, with 1.653 million equivalent album units earned in its opening week (Oct. 27-Nov. 2), according to Luminate. That’s not only the largest one-week total of 2023, but the biggest week for any album since the opening week of Adele’s 25 in November 2015 (3.482 million). Of the new set’s 1.653 million units, 1.359 million are from album sales, marking Swift’s largest sales week for a title to date.

Of Swift’s 22 total entries on the Hot 100 – all 21 from the new set, plus “Cruel Summer” (which falls to No. 6 after two weeks at No. 1) – 19 debut and two re-enter: “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)” and “This Love (Taylor’s Version),” at Nos. 20 and 43, respectively, both new highs. Her re-recorded “Wildest Dreams” charted for one week at No. 37 in October 2021, after it appeared in the trailer for the 2021 DreamWorks Animation film Spirit Untamed, while the new version of “This Love” spent one frame, at No. 50, on the chart in May 2022, after its appearance in the trailer for the Amazon Prime Video series The Summer I Turned Pretty.

Here’s a look at all of Swift’s songs on the Nov. 11-dated Hot 100, all of which are debuts except where noted.

Taylor Swift on the Nov. 11-dated Hot 100:

No. 1, “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
No. 2, “Now That We Don’t Talk (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
No. 3, “Slut! (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
No. 5, “Say Don’t Go (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
No. 6, “Cruel Summer” (down after two weeks at No. 1)
No. 7, “Bad Blood (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 9, “Style (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 10, “Suburban Legends (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
No. 12, “Blank Space (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 14, “Welcome to New York (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 16, “Out of the Woods (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 19, “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)” (re-entry; new peak)
No. 20, “All You Had to Do Was Stay (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 28, “Shake It Off (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 29, “New Romantics (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 30, “Clean (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 31, “I Wish You Would (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 36, “I Know Places (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 39, “Wonderland (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 40, “How You Get the Girl (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 42, “This Love (Taylor’s Version)” (re-entry; new peak)
No. 43, “You Are in Love (Taylor’s Version)”

With 18 debuts, Swift brings her total to 230 Hot 100 hits in her career, the second-most after Drake’s 321. She also ups her counts to 31 top five hits (passing The Beatles, Mariah Carey and Madonna for the second-most after Drake’s 41); 49 top 10s (second after Drake’s 76); 85 top 20 titles (second after Drake’s 132); and 137 top 40 entries (second after Drake’s 199).

Meanwhile, this is just the fourth week in which an artist has tallied at least eight songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 simultaneously. Here’s a look at every such instance.

Most Simultaneous Entries in the Hot 100’s Top 10:

10, Taylor Swift, chart dated Nov. 5, 2022
9, Drake, Sept. 18, 2021
8, Drake, Nov. 19, 2022
8, Taylor Swift, Nov. 11, 2023

As “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)” debuts at No. 1, Swift ups her total to 11 career Hot 100 No. 1s, breaking out of a tie with Janet Jackson and Stevie Wonder to tie Whitney Houston for the eighth-most of all time (dating to the chart’s 1958 start). The Beatles lead all acts with 20 No. 1s, followed by Mariah Carey (19), Rihanna (14), Drake (13), Michael Jackson (13) and Madonna (12) and The Supremes (12).
 
I'm ok with them rush releasing Is It Over Now? as a single instead of Slut! after a MUTED reaction from the general public :disco: :eyes:
 
It's steady at #1 on US Spotify 10 days post release with a wide margin. Pretty good longevity for a TV vault track.
 
What's the most successful Vault track so far? I'd assumed it was was the 10 minute All Too Well.
 
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this and Is It Over Now? are marvelous. the other ones should have stayed in the Vault.
 
I love the artwork on the main TV version, but they're all interesting variations on the original concept.
 
I Went to two different Targets this past weekend and they had run out of (TANGERINE EDITION) vinyls. fuck you Taylor and fuck u Target!
 

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