Well, then Drake has tried it. His last had at least 8 versions.

Billboard should a set a limit tho

Like YoungBoy said 3-4 seems reasonable to me as well

wedding invite variant

fraudulent ass sales

From what I've seen, it's common now for major artists to have 30 versions of an album ready. It's not just Taylor.

She’s been training her fans to have a collect them all mindset since at least folklore

Oh yea i think female rap fans would but for males yea just Travis and maybe Carti (we still havent seen proof they buy though tbh)

when he have 8? ☠️

No they weren’t lol

You’re in Germany trying to tell Americans what they heard around them based off of manufactured data and numbers

His own store had:

2x Vinyl
3x CD
1x Cassette

Store Exclusive Vinyl:

1x Amazon
1x WalMart
1x Urban Outfitters
1x Target

What album?

some smelly songs

His last. $$$4U

grown men listening to taylor swift need to be shunned by society more

People may not have been aware of all versions, because even with the 2+ months of pre-order, all those versions combined amounted to less than 10,000 sales the week they shipped

They tried to do their own Yeezus

his art direction is so good he just need to match the swag

Ive seen people quoting this “I’m the problem it’s me” lyric on social media but i can count on one hand the amount of times i heard the song.

Heard cruel summer once in an uber ride and had to Shazam it.

She’s lowkey a mysterious artist on some DJ Khaled s***. She’s supposedly everywhere but you never hear it outside unironically

Ngl I f*** with the look but it’s the wrong album to do it for

Her Loss or Fatd version would be insano

Sure she does too much with how many variants she makes available but the point can’t be avoided: her fans want to buy them. Cause at the end of the day, Taylor is checking off the three most fundamental boxes of albums that people actually want to listen to:

• personal lyrics
• a specific emotion that their albums maximize on for fans to get a fix of if they’re looking for said emotion for 40 mins-1 hour of listening
• visually driven (the album is a visual medium both literally and lyrically)

These other motherfuckers have

• mid visuals that don’t match the music in even the slightest regard
• impersonal lyrics
• no specific emotion that their albums maximize on for fans to get a fix of if they’re looking for said emotion for 40 mins-1 hour of listening - the emotions are all over the place so you can’t really get attached beyond the chance you like each song

For a medium that most people are already apathetic to, these two factors are make or break when it comes down to sales and having a fanbase that actually WANTS to buy albums. All this market research boardroom ass talk about album sales misses the fact that it takes something more merit based to connect. I know that’s too romantic for you numbers geniuses but y’all don’t seem to understand the mindset of wanting to listen to an album vs not wanting to

We’re here today with these crazy debut sales because of Fearless btw. That was the straw; that was when it was common sense that this woman’s albums are worth paying for. She has only kept things fairly consistent since then

No way you’re comparing different colored vinyl to literal variants that had different covers

people with taste. i think they're both (almost) Diamond certified

And the bubble of whiteness you surround yourself with doesn’t speak for the rest of the world either

I’m heavy into music like everyone else on here and I still have no idea what Anti-Hero sounds like despite it having released three years ago