Taylor Swift [merged]

[ILLBFIRE]

That is the beauty of music, nobody can tell you to like it, you have to feel it in your heart, and if you do nobody can tell it's not good. Taylor Swift the first time I heard her, I was who's that, and from then on I loved her. Especialy love that she writes her own songs, because they come from her. It doesn't bother me she is exposed alot, that's the buisness. It bothers me if she's screwing up her life or becoming an idiot, not apreciating the talent she has, but she doesn't do any of those things, she's a class act, and that makes me like her more.

Thats why I love Taylor Swift She is so nice and sweet...A real class act just like you said.

What do you mean? It's promo for the new album. She is doing an iTunes countdown 4 weeks until the album release. A new song will be premiered and previewed on Good Morning America on Monday's and then it will be on iTunes at 12:00am that same night. It's great promotion for a new album, but she really doesn't need it. This album is going to slayyy.

Ok I get it now..lol

20 more days!!!!!

[ILLBFIRE]

I think if Red is successful then she will transition into Pop full time.

[Nocturnal]

PROMO!!!

[ILLBFIRE]

LOL she has been doing promo for a month and half already...She does have an Album coming out this month

[Mrbrightside976]

8 Days! I am so ready for this album. I'm going to die <3

[Nocturnal]

PROMO!!!

So apparently, you buy a cd, and you get a free pizza.

[ILLBFIRE]

ROFLMAO

Only Taylor Swift can sell her CD for more money and still call it a promo...

Beginning October 22, the album’s release date, the company will offer fans the ability to purchase Red and a large one-topping pizza for $22 in-store or at www.papajohns.com.

[bostonboy20]

Love the new album!

[DigitalFudge]

22 is THA BOP

[Nocturnal]

I remember when Monster/Gaga/BTW got dragged last year for the Amazon deal, and some lil **** was up in Gaga's thread talking shit about how we should apologize to Taylor for whatever the hell he was talking about.

Buy a cd, get a free pizza? What now? LOL

[jodelleferlandfan1]

Her new album is amazing!

[ILLBFIRE]

HAHA I guess Lady Gagas crazy fans can't see straight or they just can't read

I guess all they can see is green since they are green with envy.

I'm dancing all night long while eating a hot slice of pizza

[Mrbrightside976]

There is a huge difference between selling an album with a pizza for 20 dollars, and selling an album for instant download online for .99 cents. I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous that they counted that on billboard.


Whatever, 'Red' has already sold like 600,000 copies so, it's whatever.

[Nocturnal]

There is a huge difference between selling an album with a pizza for 20 dollars, and selling an album for instant download online for .99 cents. I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous that they counted that on billboard.


Whatever, 'Red' has already sold like 600,000 copies so, it's whatever.

Pizza only being THE most popular fast food on the planet. Please. Her stans can beg their mommy and daddy to buy pizza for the entire week.


Get that promo!

[DigitalFudge]

I almost do/Treacherous/I Knew you were trouble

[ILLBFIRE]

Haha its desperation by lady gaga fans.....its soooo sad

Papa jonhs is selling the album for 13.99 or as promo with the pizza for 22 bucks.....wait a minute..wait a minute ...

Lol I think Taylor is throwing shade at the amazon deal....

[ILLBFIRE]

Go Taylor!!!!!!!!

It's official: Taylor Swift's "Red" sold a whopping 1.208 million copies last week in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan. That's more than any album has sold in a single week since 2002, when Eminem's "The Eminem Show" sold 1.322 million in its first full week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.



"Red" also easily debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, scoring Swift her third chart-topper.



"Red" is only the 18th album to sell a million units in a single week since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991. Its start ranks as the eighth biggest sales week in that span of time. The SoundScan-era record week is held by *NSYNC's "No Strings Attached," when it debuted at No. 1 with 2.416 million in 2000.



Swift's sizzling start is also the second-largest sales frame for a female artist. Only Britney Spears had a bigger week, when "Oops! . . . I Did It Again" sold 1.319 million in its debut in 2000.



As we projected last week, the blockbuster set marks the first album to move a million copies in a week since May of 2011, when Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" blasted in with 1.108 million in its No. 1 debut. However, "Red's" number is a bit bigger than the 1.1 million that had been forecasted by industry sources.



"Red" also makes Swift the only woman to have two million-selling weeks since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991. The country/pop star earlier earned a million week when her last studio release, 2010's "Speak Now," launched with 1.047 million.



Swift and her "Red" set were inescapable last week, following the album's off-cycle release on Monday, Oct. 22. (Most albums bow on Tuesday each week.) The singer appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America" (Oct. 22 and 23), CBS' "The Late Show With David Letterman" (23), ABC's "The View" (24), "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (25), ABC's "Katie" and "20/20" (26). Her album was available in unconventional locations such as Starbucks, Walgreens (where she had her own dedicated mini-store in each outlet) and Papa John's Pizza.



Further, Target scored the only deluxe version of "Red" with additional audio content (three bonus songs and three remixes), while the iTunes Store was the exclusive digital retailer of the title last week.



Label sources indicate that iTunes sold nearly 465,000 copies of the album -- a record sales week for an iTunes album. Target rang up around 396,000 on its own -- again, a record for the retailer. Swift's unique deal with Papa John's yielded a meaty 8,000 copies of "Red." While that number looks small compared to Target and iTunes, to put it in perspective, it's almost half of the total "Red" CDs sold via Amazon.com. Papa John's sold the CD for $13 and also as part of large one-topping pizza combo for $22. (Large single-topping pizzas on their own sell for $12.) Swift's face was also plastered across the top of Papa John's pizza boxes, so even if customers didn't buy the album, they were certainly aware of it existing.



Impressively, "Red" was able to secure a million-selling week without any deep discount sale pricing. The lowest that the album was advertised for among all major retailers last week was $9.99. That was the price point for the standard edition of the album at Target and Best Buy, while iTunes offered it for $14.99. Kmart and Walmart sold it for $12.99 and $13.99, respectively. Target touted its exclusive deluxe version for $14.99.



"Red's" lack of low pricing stands in contrast to the last album that did a million in a week: Lady Gaga's "Born This Way." That set's 1.108 million first week was fueled partly by Amazon MP3 opting to sell the album for 99 cents on two separate days during its release week. ("Red," however, was only available as a digital album via iTunes, leaving Amazon MP3 -- and any possible discounting -- out of the picture.)

[vacancy3]

i swear if this simpleton/no talent/abc pop star/too tall/ stupid cunt wins cma artist of the year again in gonna start listenin to rap/hip-hop....please let her go away lord.....lets get our country roots back now DAMMIT

[Nocturnal]

How... unfortunate.

[Nocturnal]

How... unfortunate.

Carrie Underwood from 1:25 on... bless her jealous heart...

[Mrbrightside976]

I think that guy is so desperate to stay relevant. Yeah the lyrics are very similar, but who cares. You would think he wouldn't even care. Whatever, lets see him sell 1,208,000 records in his entire career.

[ILLBFIRE]

A sentence??? lol I guess
Let me see a sentence or a WHOLE song...which one is worst..hehehe

What ever happen to the whole Pizza promo talk??? They were making such a big deal but then the numbers for Red come in and it went quiet...Once again crazy Lady Gaga fans got humiliated

All you crazy LG fans can keep this whole "scandal" cuz you have been humiliated time after time after time. I'm starting to feel sorry for all of you...So I'm going to give all of you this early Xmas gift

I'm going back to jamming out to Taylors Album while eating my hot Papa Johns pizza

[CottonBolus]

Omg, the only singer who doesn't act in a cringe-inducing fashion to please the mainstream audience (who are sex-obsessed), and has talent. Swift gets two thumbs way up!

I love how she remained pg-13 for so long.

[-Callum-]

A sentence??? lol I guess
Let me see a sentence or a WHOLE song...which one is worst..hehehe

Both are awful and criminal. Try stealing a sentence in any decent university and see how far it gets you. Oh, wait...rich people/parents can just throw money at that.

[Nocturnal]

THE PAPA JOHN'S PIZZA QUEEN

Well, could be worse... it could .99¢ for ONE day.

[ILLBFIRE]

HAHAHAHAHA



I guess Taylors second week numbers came out already...

[Nocturnal]

Thousands of Taylor Swift stans: "Mommyyyyy Daddyyyyy can we buy Papa John's Pizza EVERY night during RED's debut week?"
Mommy and Daddy: "Sure babies, we can do that! Remember pizza's only arguably THE most popular fast food on the planet, so it wouldn't be abnormal for us to do that anyway!" ¯\__/¯

[ILLBFIRE]

ROFL

Now does anybody have the information on how many copies Papa Johns promo sold????

We know BTW sold 440,000 copies from the .99 cents promo deal...that would be around 60% of her total first week sales

Anybody....Anybody? Can somebody please post the numbers of Taylors $12 promo deal

[ILLBFIRE]

I loved her performance at the MTV Europe Awards!!!

p.s. Taylor still has the #1 album!

[Blueboy82]

I really don't like the fact that she writes songs about her exes....just to spite them or get even with them.

Just saw her new video "We're never ever getting back together"....and that video is kind of talking about her ex.

I feel bad and sorry for her ex boyfriends or guys who have dated her.

I mean seriously, I don't quite believe that in all her past relationships...the fault or main problem always come from the guy

But somehow, she seems to make it look like it's always the guy's fault in all her past relationships

Sorry, I'm not trying to attack her or anything


A lot of female singers, I don't understand why, they like to talk bad things about their exes or simply just say bad things about men in general....... through their songs....


Example: Carrie Underwood "Before he cheats", Christina Aguliaria "I hate Boys", Beyonce "Run the world", "If I were a boy"

almost every Kelly Clarkson's songs

[ILLBFIRE]

I'm soooo happy for her!

In other Taylor Swift news, the record-breaking musician reached a new pinnacle of success with her latest love songs via her most recent music album, “Red.” “Red” has almost reached 2.8 million copies sold across the world, and that number continues to rise daily. T. Swift just recently had the biggest album sales in its first week in over 10 years with “Red,” and the album continues to top the Billboard charts. Congratulations as well to Taylor Swift for having her new songs in “Red” not only leading the sales charts in over 40 countries across the globe, but also garnering over 70 million single downloads worldwide.

[-Callum-]

Finally listened to All Too Well. Probably her most mature of songs and actually pretty good.

Think she needs a few more years or at least a long, lengthy relationship to sound genuine. Definitely no Adele in the writing department, that's for sure...but in time, maybe.

[sammyyummy]

my friend is bananas over tay tay

[ILLBFIRE]

I love it. She is soooo pretty

[ILLBFIRE]

Taylor ranks #8 in Forbes' 2012 highest-paid musicians list.

Way to go Taylor Swift!!!!!!!!!

[ILLBFIRE]

Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday!

Today is the birthday of the talented, successful and most accomplished singer of this generation Mizz Taylor Swift

[ILLBFIRE]

From Eonline:

The 23-year-old Red singer was named the No. 1 "celeb gone good" for 2012 on DoSomething.org's most charitable stars of the year list.

Taylor a very beautiful human being on the inside and out.

[Mrbrightside976]

Looks like Taylor will be on the top of the charts going into the new year. She has sold the 2nd most copies in 2012 with only 9 weeks to do it in. She slays the charts.

[AlmondMilk]

I just heard Trouble. DANG. At first I thought this would be another song similar to Swift's previous songs (which I don't mind), but there's something different about it. I guess it's more electronic. I like it though. I like Swift's previous stuff, but this song was unexpected to me. It's stuck in my head now.

[dougmc92]

heard she was offically split from the 1 Direction boy.....also- just saw T Lautner and P Schwartznegger out together.....everyone can pretty much agree- 3/4 guys she dated have been gay/rumored to be gay, etc....she becoming the biggest beard in Hollywood since Debbie Reynolds.

[sammyyummy]

MJFox makes sense.

http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-new...214440202.html

[ILLBFIRE]

Yes! She is back in the studio

[sokker]

heard she was offically split from the 1 Direction boy.....also- just saw T Lautner and P Schwartznegger out together.....everyone can pretty much agree- 3/4 guys she dated have been gay/rumored to be gay, etc....she becoming the biggest beard in Hollywood since Debbie Reynolds.

Yep. I think the rumor about what happened with John Mayer is true.. it's the only explanation for why she now only chooses to beard for gay guys. It's safe, and there will be no scandals, at the same time that she will get publicity, and new material for her album.

[ILLBFIRE]

I love it!

[ILLBFIRE]

Will she be #1 this year???

Madonna has been named the biggest money maker in the music industry - with her world tour helping her take home almost $34.6m last year.

Madonna, who also led the list in 2008 due to her tour income, was the only woman in the top 10.

Taylor Swift, who took the top spot last year, fell to 15th place as she has not been touring recently.

[ILLBFIRE]

Billboard winner Taylor Swift!!!!!!