Taylor Swift Taylor Swift Taylor Swift.
It’s like a mantra.
The pop singer and entrepreneur sold more than 400,000 albums this week in the top 50.
She sold more than the rest of the top 50 combined.
You would think all her fans had all her music by now. But they persist in buying more, and definitely streaming more.
One problem is lack of other product. Nothing is hot beyond Swift. Many artists are just MIA or AWOL or both. Or if they’re putting out product they’re either not promoting it or not catching on.
Meantime, Rolling Stones shows up as a culprit in this apathy. They just issued their top 100 songs of the year. Most of them no one cares about or has heard of. The biggest hit of the year, Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers,” is number 12. Rolling Stone used to be the music bible, dictating taste. Now it just repels its audience.
PS About 12 of the top 50 are Christmas albums. And despite looking hot on the daily charts, Cher and Dolly Parton evidently didn’t sell that much this week in their second run. Bewildering.
