Films/tvshows aren't competing against each other on a "leaderboard" though

they had to do it for music because 2016-2020 especially a lot of artists were still doing a huge % of pures still, so they would have been massively d***ed

no one would care about a pure Billboard 200 anymore either, so a lot of artists would be so f***ed over

taylor's case was/is quite fortunate though, there was a lot of things that fell in her favor.

One of the biggest things was the lack of competition she had, look at how around 2018-2022 ish there was a severe lack of active women in music that either didn't care about being celebrities or barely dropped music

Ariana was quiet & dealing with all her s*** whilst dropping maybe 12 tracks every 2 years
Selena was gone
Billie was quiet & dropping 12 tracks every 2-3 years
Rihanna was gone

the competition was so trash & women always love a celebrity in music and no one was trying to be that. Taylor came out from being kinda quiet & completely took advantage of that

I bet over the next 5 years, Taylor is nowhere near as successful, because she actually has a lot of competition now. You already see this with TTPD's longterm numbers, it really has flopped longterm. She'll still do monster FWs with new projects though obviously

People seem to constantly downplay SOS's success by being like "yeah its 42 tracks of course its doing those numbers"

meanwhile TTPD hads only sold 332k copies this year, when it's like 2 years newer than SOS. TTPD is 31 tracks

If SOS's success is cause of the tracks, TTPD must be a big flop

SOS was already eligible for 6x platinum before they tacked lana on to it, i also hate the idea of throwing a whole new album onto the end of an old album to inflate longevity but we can’t pretend like SOS wasn’t already wildly successful.

I mean, I'll be the first to say that for first 2 years, SOS performed really well commercially off only 23 songs so it did really well in that regard. Adding 19 more tracks to the album has definitely helped it remain in the top 10 for the last 4 months, though.

19 more tracks is OD ngl lmao

300k carti congrats!!!!

Yeah, that's a whole other album. It wasn't a smart move not dropping the new songs as a new album imo.

these albums are the four horsemen of the deluxe edition apocalypse, every tactic you see now can be traced back to them…

2019: nav drops an 8-track deluxe in the middle of the tracking week to secure the #1 spot for his album bad habits

2020: a week after eternal stake is released, lil uzi adds a completely new 14-track album, with an entirely different title to it as a “deluxe”. earning a massive 349 million US streams and helping to keep EA #1 on the bb200 with 247k units.

2021: morgan wallen releases a bloated, 30 track album. amassing 240 US million streams, the largest for any country album at the time, and debuting #1 on the bb200.

2022: taylor swift releases not one, but two different deluxe editions of her album midnights, helping it earn the biggest first week debut on the bb200 in a decade and 549 million US streams. she would go one to release two more deluxe editions in 2023.

Yoo tecca got one! That’s 🔥🔥🔥

W Carti

Ai track at number 3

Benito really in a league of his own

Let's talk about The Weeknd and 100+ unique bundles for After Hours

I think Luther is going to become bigger than Not Like Us…

For how long Luther's been at number one i have yet to hear it outside anywhere, other than the superbowl halftime meddley

Ehh, films are definitely competing to be #1 at the box office every weekend. There’s a reason why huge tentpole films usually don’t release on the same day

HOLY F*** GAGA!

That has nothing to do with what he’s talking about lmao

That’s the Bundle Gimmick, he was talking about the Deluxe Gimmick

This is wild bro

Yeah duh

I wanted to speak about the bundle gimmick

What part of that is wild

music vid easily gets this to 10 weeks at #1 but i doubt it happens atp