Yahoo Music intervju
YAHOO MUSIC: This album had the highest first-week sales since 2002. Then there is also the fact that you’re the first artist to have a million-selling week three times in a row. And then there’s also just the idea of this being a personal best, just for you. Do any of these ways of looking at the initial success of the album mean more to you than others?
TAYLOR SWIFT: Well, my huge dream in this whole thing, which I was told many times was an unrealistic… I was told many times to keep my expectations in check, so I did. But the ultimate dream was, “Can we ring that bell? Can we get a million; can we do this for the third time?” Because we were all very well aware that if we sold a million records this time, it would be the only time in history that someone had done that three times. That was the most insane thing, when we got the first hint that we might end up actually getting to do it. And then my second biggest hope was, “Hey, wouldn’t it be insane if we topped what we did with Red?” And then the fans ended up making that happen, so it’s been just kind of like a dream scenario all the way around. And I just feel so lucky that people seem to understand what I was doing with this album and loved the new direction of it.
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1989 polaroiderna
Idag är det exat en vecka sedan Taylor släppte sitt efterlängtade femte album 1989. Med varje CD medföljer ett slumpvist utvalt paket inehållande 13 polaroider. Här nedanför finns 6 av de totalt 65 polaroiderna. De resterande 59 polaroiderna kan du hitta här.
Spotify
Igår valde Taylor att ta bort sin musik från Spotify. För tillfället har Taylor inte lämnat några officiella kommentarer angående sitt beslut att ta bort sin musik därifrån. Både Taylor och Scott Borchetta har däremot vid flertal tillfällen diskuterat streaming-tjänster och varit tydliga med sina åsikter kring det.
Vi förstår att Taylors beslut kan kännas frustrerade, men samtidigt så respekterar vi Taylors beslut till fullo. Vi hoppas att ni också kan ha försåelse för hennes belsut. Taylor ser sin musik som konst, något som är värdefullt och ska betalas för. Vi förstår att det är många som påpekar att vi betalar för Spotify och vi kan inget annat än att hålla med att musikindustrin och dess ekonomi ser annorlunda ut nu än vad det gjorde för några år sedan. Däremot är detta Taylors och BMRs beslut att ta och de har goda anledningar för det. 1989 finns att köpa på iTunes - se till att stötta Taylor och hennes tillvägasätt att sprida sin musik. Älskar ni Taylor och hennes musik som vi gör, se till att köpa skivan. Alla vi som är fans av henne vet att det är värt det. Bli inte för upprörda över Spotify, vi såg detta komma eftersom det tog Red flera månader att dyka upp där.
Så här säger Spotify över beslutet:
We love Taylor Swift, and our more than 40 million users love her even more – nearly 16 million of them have played her songs in the last 30 days, and she’s on over 19 million playlists.
We hope she’ll change her mind and join us in building a new music economy that works for everyone. We believe fans should be able to listen to music wherever and whenever they want, and that artists have an absolute right to be paid for their work and protected from piracy. That’s why we pay nearly 70% of our revenue back to the music community.
PS – Taylor, we were both young when we first saw you, but now there’s more than 40 million of us who want you to stay, stay, stay. It’s a love story, baby, just say, Yes.
Snabbast säljande album
Taylor med Abigale och Lily Aldridge
Billboard om Blank Space
Taylor Swift’s lead single from 1989, “Shake It Off,” is still going strong at No. 2 on the Hot 100 chart as the album heads toward a million-plus sales debut. Now that everyone has heard the full album, though, we can collectively speculate: what will the official follow-up single to “Shake It Off” be?On Thursday, Swift’s label Big Machine/Republic gave us the answer: “Blank Space” is the second single from 1989. The song will officially impact Top 40/mainstream, Top 40/rhythm and Hot AC radio on Nov. 10.
Elvis Duran Z100 Morning Show
Ny singel: Blank Space
NPR All Things Considered
SiriusXM Town Hall
Taylor Swift On Air With Ryan Seacrest
De gömda meddelandena från 1989
2. Blank Space - There once was a girl known by every one and no one
3. Style - Her heart belonged to someone who couldn’t stay
4. Out of the Woods - They loved each other recklessly
5. All You Had To Do was Stay - They paid the price
6. Shake It Off - She danced to forget him
7. I Wish You Would - He drove past her street each night
8. Bad Blood - She made friends and enemies
9. Wildest Dreams - He only saw her in his dreams
10. How To Get The Girl - Then one day he came back
11. This Love - Timing is a funny thing
12. I Know Places - And everyone was watching
13. Clean - She lost him but she found herself and somehow that was everything
1989 Intervjuer 30-31/10
The Talk
Taylor uppträder på GMA
1989 Intervjuer 28-29/10
1989 har sålt 600.000 ex första dygnet
Late Night with David Letterman
The Morning Show
1989 spås sälja 1 miljon album denna veckan
Industry sources now forecast the album to sell at least one million copies in its first week. That would make 1989 just the 19th album to sell a million in a single week since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991, and Swift the first act to earn three million-selling weeks.
Plus: 1989 will be the first album released in 2014 to sell a million copies. The new album is Swift's fifth studio effort, released through Big Machine Records on Oct. 27. Its sales forecast is for the tracking week ending Nov. 2. It could mark Swift's third million-selling debut in a row, following 2010's Speak Now (1.05 million) and 2012's Red (1.21 million).
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Taylor är aktuell med den nya parfymen Incredible Things. Parfymen finns sedand den 1/12 -14 på Kicks. Ni kan även hitta de tidigare parfymerna Wonderstruck, Wonderstruck Enchanted och Taylor by Taylor Swift hos ett antal återförsäljare runt om i landet.
