Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Taylor Swift’s 1989 Is Now The Fifth Album To Spend First Year In Billboard 200 Top 10

Taylor Swift’s first pop album, 1989, has continued to earn accolades a full year after its release. The pop record is only the fifth project ever to spend its entire first year in the all-genre Billboard 200 Top 10.


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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