Dark Matter on Amazon and Apple Music

igotid88 said:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2024/05/13/pearl-jams-new-album-is-tumbling-down-the-charts/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3zT83rW4PQcUGjbBXC-cCUu9wFLWnwwlQSlKJmwYf9q1KMJUmMnoblZgs_aem_AS2GEtkoNZzbsuHGNjjsr-FmXUYMEVMg3iIPgZtgo7st9aSNOtl5gVz1KOGPmk9ymrWIY1fbM-leRRY6BB_uUyhV&sh=38ffd37e2499

That guy is a music journalist, and yet he doesn't realize that there's nothing unusual or newsworthy about anything he reports in that article. 

igotid88 said:

Somebody out-Swifted Taylor Swift?

Billboard's Indie Store Album Sales chart has Dark Matter at No. 8. I will update the chart post when I get a chance with that and other info. Got back from Sacramento at 5 a.m. and still catching up.

igotid88 said:

BF25394 said:

igotid88 said:

Somebody out-Swifted Taylor Swift?

Billboard's Indie Store Album Sales chart has Dark Matter at No. 8. I will update the chart post when I get a chance with that and other info. Got back from Sacramento at 5 a.m. and still catching up.

Yea but it's still Taylor centric

I assumed-- that's why I said "out-Swifted."

Lerxst1992 said:

BF25394 said:

igotid88 said:

BF25394 said:

igotid88 said:

Somebody out-Swifted Taylor Swift?

Billboard's Indie Store Album Sales chart has Dark Matter at No. 8. I will update the chart post when I get a chance with that and other info. Got back from Sacramento at 5 a.m. and still catching up.

Yea but it's still Taylor centric

I assumed-- that's why I said "out-Swifted."

Let’s see what Swift does 30 years from now (like I’ll be here to see lol)

IMO pretty damn impressive for a band about to be majority populated by 60 something’s.

She released her first album in 2006. She became a huge star with her second album, in 2008. She already has a pretty impressive record of longevity. It is very rare for a top-selling artist to sustain sales at peak level for anything close to the 16 years and counting she's currently at. Think of the recent pop stars who had hit after hit for a short period of a few years but can't buy a hit anymore. Katy Perry had five number ones from one album but hasn't hit the top ten in seven years, Lady Gaga hasn't had a hit since 2020. Both of those artists broke through in 2008, just like Swift, but only Swift is still setting sales records. Look at Adele. She set the all-time record for single-week sales in 2015, a record which still stands at 3.38 million copies. Swift's latest album sold more copies in its first week than Adele's latest album has sold in total since it was released two-and-a-half years ago, and it's not even that close.

You have multiple generations that have embraced these songs over a decade-and-a-half. People are not going to forget those songs 30 years from now. To the contrary, they'll be nostalgic for them the way a lot of Pearl Jam fans cling to their first three albums, the last of which came out 30 years ago. The difference is that Pearl Jam was the biggest artist in the country for about a year-and-a-half. Taylor Swift has been the biggest artist in the country for close to ten years and counting.