1989 was released on Oct. 27, 2014, and debuted in the No. 1
spot. Since then, it has spent 11 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the
chart, becoming Swift’s second album to spend more than 10 weeks at No. 1. The
country-turned-pop superstar is only the second woman to have at least two
albums stay at No. 1 for at least 10 weeks; Whitney Houston had three albums
stay in that position for that length of time.
The four other artists who have had albums spend their first
year in the Billboard 200 Top 10 are Bruce Springsteen (Born in the USA, 1984),
Adele (21, 2011), Celine Dion (Falling Into You, 1996) and Fleetwood Mac
(Rumours, 1977).
Taylor Swift’s newest album became the best-selling album of
2014, beating out the incredibly popular soundtrack from Frozen. It was also
one of only four albums to be certified platinum, for sales in excess of one
million units, last year.
In addition, After more than a year, 1989 has dropped out of
the top ten on Billboard‘s album list. 1989 is one of the biggest selling
albums of all time by a female artist. It is actually the biggest selling album
by a woman since Adele’s 21 beating albums by Katy Perry and Lady Gaga.
Taylor Swift has manage to first got things rolling when she
released the song Shake it Off in August of 2014 by the time GP was impressed
with how Swift went from country to full-on pop.
With 1989 received great reviews from critics including a
perfect score of four stars from Rolling Stone, Taylor Swift’s 1989 then
spawned hit after hit — something pop stars such as Lady Gaga and Katy Perry
couldn’t do with their latest albums. Besides Shake it Off, Blank Space (which
is now the most viewed video on Vevo of all time surpassing Justin Bieber’s
Baby music video) and Bad Blood also hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Style and
Wildest Dreams both hit the top five. All 5 singles off of 1989 are number 1
singles in the US on Pop Songs chart making 1989 the most US number 1 singles
of any Taylor Swift album surpassing Speak Now’s 4 US number 1 singles like
Mean and Sparks Fly. The singles kept hitting, while Taylor Swift launched what
is, perhaps, the first fully stadium-oriented tour in the United States by a
female star since Madonna’s Who’s That Girl Tour in 1987. The reviews for
Swift’s tour were almost unanimously positive.
Excellent reviews for Taylor Swift’s tour has appeared in
just about every other outlet that reviewed the show including the New York
Times, Vulture, Mashable, and perhaps one of the best reviews came from Eric
Sundermann of Vice, who said the show was engineered to be the best night of
your life. Taylor Swift really hit a home run on the 1989 World Tour.
Unfortunately, but expectedly, Taylor Swift’s major success
has led to somewhat of a backlash including people like fans complaining about
why Taylor Swift is a pop star now or why people like kids think Taylor Swift
only makes pop music and not going by other genres like country. There seems to
be a concentrated effort to defame Swift, and some media outlets really showed
their true colors when they accused Taylor Swift’s recent Wildest Dreams video
of being racist. However, Taylor Swift is about to take a long-deserved break
and will no doubt shake off all the ridiculous criticism thrown her way.
Congrats, Taylor Swift. What will Taylor Swift now after
1989 era is over this Christmas? How about absorbing all her music that isn’t
pop like country to her pop career and have all her non-pop music to stay pop
music. Duh. Also, how about Taylor Swift’s greatest hits album where all Taylor
Swift’s singles (pop or not) gets to be included in the 2 disk singles
collection including 2 new 2016 singles and a neat surprise like Tim McGraw’s
Highway Don’t Care. That would be perfect for Taylor Swift’s 2016 album.
Anyway, keep up the good work. I’m proud of you, T-Swizzle.
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