Is it over for Beyonce

[BreezyH]

if you were born during the 70s or 80s, you are a legacy act. the pie is just bigger now. and i dont think people are out here just announcing retirement. beyonce is like a professor emeritus at this point. still chasing that grammy album of the year, but otherwise, in her own lane.

 

[BreezyH]

It's SZA

She has 2 albums charting on the billboard 200 right now

She has the edge. She's young ...the vibey, lowfi r&b she is known for is trending ...It's not uncool for men to listen to her ....

In terms of popularity she, Rihanna and Beyonce are at the top

Summer Walker had a moment but not sure what happened with that

two sides of the same birdbrain. sza will buy a new crystal after a breakup, summer gonna key your car. one is more palatable than the other

 

[mag357]

nikka I can't tell. My wife plays this shyt constantly, it's driving me crazy.

U might have to give her that paperwork dawg

 

[jwinfield]

IT WAS THE FIRST FEMALE ALBUM
TO EVER SIT AT NUMBER 1 FOR ITS FIRST 12 WEEKS
AND OBVIOUSLY HER LONGEST CHART TOPPING
ALBUM EVER.

WHY DOUBLE DOWN ON STUPIDITY?


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Not saying Taylor isn't one of the biggest artists in the world that will do numbers, but she was doing some wild shyt to stay at #1.

Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, K-Pop Acts See a Huge Boost in 2024 Sales With ‘Variants’: The Same Album in Different Packages

Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and others have gotten sales boosts from 'variants' (collectors' edition). But now each major album has seven in vinyl.

variety.com

Unquestionably in Taylor Swift’s case, they’ve helped her latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department” to hold the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for 12 weeks, three months past its April 19 release date (a rarity in these short-attention-span times). Each time a contender for the No. 1 spot rises up, she drops new, limited-edition variants that give the album’s sales another boost.

Swift has sprawled exclusivity across all formats. While she’s only released a mere five vinyl versions of “Tortured Poets” — which is actually below average, by the current standard Luminate cites — she’s made up for it with CD and digital variants going well into the double digits for each medium. Besides a deluxe 31-track digital-only version of “Tortured Poets” called “The Anthology,” she’s released dozens of limited-edition versions of the standard album that have one bonus song each, including acoustic tracks, live renditions and voice-memo demos. Ordered from Swift’s website, a “Tortured Poets” vinyl LP with an “Anthology” bonus track costs $34.99, and the CD version costs $12.99. The digital “Tortured Poets” album costs 11.99, and the digital “Anthology” costs $14.99. But most of the extremely limited-edition versions, often put up for sale for just a few hours at a time, have been extremely budget-priced — $4.99-$5.99 for the digital albums, and $7.99 for the CDs — with the discount items seemingly driving a lot of sales in a short amount of time within a certain chart-week window.

She was out here selling different "variants" that included a single voice memo from her.

An exhaustive list of all 34 versions of her album Taylor Swift has greedily released

The Swifties are the real Tortured Poets having to buy 34 versions of the same album

thetab.com

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

Nikkas please..she would clean up at Vegas

If Usher can eat....she will

U missed the smiley.. I know Breh.. B is still that bytch

 

[Silver Surfer]

U missed the smiley.. I know Breh.. B is still that bytch

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

When we getting that r&b album

Album is a classic

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I can't even tell you what female R&B singers Gen-Z is fukking with right now. There's literally NOBODY moving the proverbial needle in that space.

Thought it could be SZA but her shyt come and go soon as it gets played out on tiktok

SZA’s album burned up the charts for a year+, she’s good

 

[dom_p08]

Album was solid and showcased country music legends black and white and imo showed the young girls other types of female musical artists/styles they can aspire to emulate other than the ratchet or the vixen and it was true to her Houston roots, so I see it as a successful project even tho they didn't market it really after release.

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

Album is a classic

Shoulda went diamond.

 

[Sad Bunny]

She and Taylor putting out albums this year while their previous albums and tours were still generating a lot of money has been really interesting to me. Both albums have underperformed by their standards but both albums have been woefully underpromoted by their standards. Beyonce basically announced before this album came out there wouldn't be a tour, and Taylor has just folded this new album into her ongoing on.

Weird all around. Feels like a sign of a big shift in the record industry. I can't think of any thing other than they just created "content" for the platforms.

Underperformed??? Taylor latest album already sold like 7 million though

 

[Awesome Wells]

Her sh*t charted for 1/2 the year with no promo and visuals.

One of the greatest artists of the past couple of generations who has the kinda fanbase that comes out and literally supports every move she makes. Beyonce ain't going nowhere anytime soon. Her career is the kind that very few will ever see and most pray for. She makes music for women and gays and hasn't lost a step in impact, at all. She can really do whatever she wants, at this point.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Feel like the Carters survive off gimmicks these days

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Not saying Taylor isn't one of the biggest artists in the world that will do numbers, but she was doing some wild shyt to stay at #1.

Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, K-Pop Acts See a Huge Boost in 2024 Sales With ‘Variants’: The Same Album in Different Packages

Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and others have gotten sales boosts from 'variants' (collectors' edition). But now each major album has seven in vinyl.

variety.com

She was out here selling different "variants" that included a single voice memo from her.

An exhaustive list of all 34 versions of her album Taylor Swift has greedily released

The Swifties are the real Tortured Poets having to buy 34 versions of the same album

thetab.com

Underperformed??? Taylor latest album already sold like 7 million though

If a black artist, say Beyonce, did what Taylor did to boost sagging numbers this year we wouldn't hear the end of it from some of y'all

 

[Sad Bunny]

@Scottie Drippin

Her job is to sell music. People don’t buy music anymore so she’s creating unique ways to sell the music. I don’t see the problem with that.