Taylor Swift is now projected to have broken Adele’s record for biggest album opening in U.S. history at 3.5 million, and possibly headed for 4 million. (via HITSDD) pic.twitter.com/zJWOYZOeUb
— Pop Base (@PopBase) October 6, 2025
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1. So they also calculate album opening sales overseas huh
2. Adele's record is only being broken now.. Just this fact is already pretty impressive
3. How many albums did Adele sell? If it's worldwide, wouldn't it be around 5 million copies?
4. Honestly impressive, she's a wall
5. Can you really make such a simple comparison? Adele has only about three types, even counting LPs, whereas Taylor has over twenty...
6. Overseas markets don't employ such promotional tactics. In North America, releases typically include CDs, LPs, and downloads in various configurations.
And there aren't many artists who don't do it... In this streaming era, if you want to sell physical copies that generate immediate revenue...
Instead, the limit is four copies per receipt; anything beyond that won't be counted as duplicates.
So it's like Taylor releasing four versions at once, then releasing other things later
7. But it's not like that'll make the streaming crash, and the streaming's already f*cking awful as it is, so whateverㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ They're just doing it because it sells, and if they can set a record, that's a bonus. If you're gonna whine, instead of throwing away an album and only keeping a photocard, Taylor's fans actually want her album so it's different
8. Those fans don;t buy hundreds of albums just to attend fansigns and then throw them away after taking the photocardsㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅠ They actually buy them because they want to keep everything, that's where that kind of buying power comes from
9. It's utterly ridiculous that they blamed K-pop for the environment. Seriously, the real enemy of the environment is in Hollywood
10. Does Taylor also release keyrings and albums like K-pop idols? Or is it just a different cover? I'm curious about the American pop scene
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