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  1. On 11/15/2022 at 3:20 PM, Vesper said:

    Frontloaded success? ny1

     

    Following the expectation-shattering blockbuster debut of her new album, “Midnights,” Taylor Swift has coasted to a second week atop the charts, earning the equivalent of another 342,000 album sales, according to the tracking service Luminate.

    Although “Midnights” experienced a 78 percent drop in its second week of release — down from 1,578,000 in sales the week prior — Swift’s follow-up performance was still good enough for the third-largest total of the year so far, topping even the debut of Beyoncé’s “Renaissance.” (Other than “Midnights” last week, only Harry Styles’s “Harry’s House” sold more.)

    Swift managed to move more than one million copies of “Midnights” in its first week largely on the strength of physical merchandise, including vinyl, CDs and even cassettes. But the album lingers at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week thanks to its consistency on streaming services, where it totaled 294 million plays (down from 549 million).

    Combining digital plays, downloads and purchases of the complete album, the second-week sales of “Midnight” were the largest for any album in its second week since Adele’s “25” in 2015, Billboard said.

    Swift also maintains a healthy standing on the singles chart, the Hot 100, where she had previously occupied all of the Top 10 — a first in the chart’s history. This week, the single “Anti-Hero” holds at No. 1, with Swift songs also landing at No. 6, 7 and 9.

    Rihanna’s new single, “Lift Me Up,” a ballad from the “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” soundtrack, debuts at No. 2.
     

     

    Doing very well into her second week. CRY ABOUT IT ny1 

    Specially when Taylor has only become bigger. 16 years after her debut. The longevity is real. Some can't handle it. Just when haters thought she was over. This happens.

     

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  2. On 11/6/2022 at 7:39 PM, Arya said:

    I'm really not complaining though, I sometimes read bgs and it's just funny to me to see how pressed you are over her, but I'm not trying to make you stop, it's kinda entertaining to see how many things you can come up with to hate on Taylor rip2

    Looks like some things never change around here.

     

    So now is Taylor the one that is hated the most by certain Madonna stans around here. What happened, Did Taylor shade Madonna or something? I am sure no stan of the queen of pop, who is all about power to the women and defending their rights, wouldn't attack other successful women for no reason. Right?

     

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  3. 3 hours ago, Ruthless Love said:

    Then they shouldn't continually shift releases around, hyping up a film's release, and then yanking it away like candy from a baby. We don't need a pandemic lesson here; the point, in which I was trying to make, is that those these film companies rely on to review their trailers and screen their films are calling out companies for their poor execution. So, before providing an unnecessary lesson on the pandemic on a continual basis, understand we are aware of what is going on in the world, and it is WHY we are calling out studios and this country's poor reaction to the pandemic. Stop trying to be right. brit5

    I agree that they should stop posting dates until the pandemic is over.

  4. 4 minutes ago, Mr. Mendes said:

    I'm not saying they don't care at all, I'm just saying a tentpole film lives and dies by the American and Asian box office. If the American box office was open, even if just open like the Asian box office is, for business and the European ones weren't, these movies would be getting released theatrically on time here and digitally wherever isn't open. That's not my opinion, that's going by what these companies and film scholars say themselves. 

    But there is a pandemic preventing this from happening. Even in the places where cinemas are opened. They can't open to full capacity. And a lot of people still don't go to cinemas because obviously they are afraid of the virus. This is not the time and place to release movies meant to be blockbusters.

  5. 1 minute ago, Mr. Mendes said:

    which is substantially more than what was predicted. and it would've made even more had America been ready to receive it. America leads the box office by a wide margin so even being half opened could've doubled this figure. but we cannot do that with people refusing to follow guidelines. there's a direct correlation between America's disobedience and the sluggish performance of the half opened box office, no two ways about it. take a franchise like Pirates of the Caribbean for example. they do decently in Europe and Oceania, but America and Asia made them billion dollar movies. movies are getting pushed back because they can't release in America. if you don't release in America, you flop. movies will stop getting pushed back if we can soft open our cinemas here. it sounds harsh to say but that's really what they care about. a company like Warner's not really gonna care all that much if it does just moderately well in Europe because that isn't where their sights are. 

    There is no point in releasing in America or elsewhere. In this context they won't gross as much as they need to. Warner just like any other company wants their projects to be as successful as possible. They care about box office locally and globally. All the films from many different companies are being pushed back because of this.

  6. 1 hour ago, Mr. Mendes said:

    it's funny you bring this up because we were just having this talk in my film courses. 

    to an extent that's true but the fact that America is so far behind everyone else is playing a major role in this. yes, cinemas aren't operating like they were pre-pandemic but in almost every other country but the US there is some activity. enough to make Tenet more than everyone was predicting it'd make in the midst of a situation like this. China's theaters have been undergoing their reopening process for awhile and China is the second biggest film market in the world...followed by the US. if the US was in a place where theaters could be opening en masse under the same guidelines as they are in other places then we would be seeing the beginning of a turnaround for the film industry and the slow process back into the theater would be beginning. but since America is currently the epicenter of all of this and people are refusing to follow the rules, it's really the only thing holding back the initiation of this chain of events. 

    and honestly, it's not even just for film, America's refusal to do the right thing is holding the entire world back from really beginning the recovery process...half of this country is paying no attention to the facts and it's quite literally costing the world dead2

    @Ruthless Love In many countries cinemas aren't opened. Tenet has made 207M WW. A film like WW1984 would need to gross at the very least 600M to be considered a hit. And let's be real. People in the industry usually want these type of films to make 700M or more. 400M or 500M wouldn't be enough to make it a hit. The context of this pandemic will not allow any comic book film to gross as much as they need to be successful.

  7. 11 hours ago, Ruthless Love said:

    Well, maybe if people wore their fucking masks and the States handled it overall quicker and better, but that is a topic for another time and another place. bey2

    But the whole world is a mess because of covid19. And these comic book films need to make big money to be profitables. This is why nobody is doing that good at the box office right now. The virus killed the movie scene for everybody worldwide.

  8. On 9/12/2020 at 9:46 AM, Ruthless Love said:

    Except, they are being put at fault... they've released multiple trailers, and those who review them, and, are considered important to the film community are calling them out for this decision.

    What do they expect them to do? covid has killed the movie scene for everybody in 2020. They can't expect them to release the film in this context just to lose money. A lot of people never imagined that the covid mess would be this big and last so long.

  9. 7 hours ago, The One Beyond All said:

    lol which level are you stuck on and in which time zone? dead4

    She' s way more commercially successful than Gaga/Xtina/Katy/Britney today and she's still rising. Not to mention that she already has a stronger videography than Gaga/Xtina/Katy/Britney, which include also a cameo with Madonna that is worthy much more than a local #1. Not everyone has THAT.moo6

    Gaga is doing very well in 2018.

     

    Subjective. ari8

  10. 3 hours ago, Venus XCX said:

    Against All Odds is her best cover rav1 

    It is not a cover. Didn't you know that when Mariah covers a song, it becomes hers? The power of her legendary voice and musicianship is that huge. 

     

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  11. 49 minutes ago, Chris Morlock said:

    listening to the debut for teh 3rd time (since i forgot what it sounded like) moo10 

    and Prisoner caught me off guard a bit oprah10 

    and IDWC is THAT song giveup3 

    also You Need Me is still a bawp since that was the one i did remember

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    I love You Need Me so much. moo13

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