Saturday, June 6, 2026

Get Ready for Taylor Swift “Poets” Tsunami to Hit at Midnight, Beyonce Album Ending Run at 700,000

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Cowboy Carter is about to get rounded up.

Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” will at midnight like the hurricane in “The Wizard of Oz.” Nothing will be left in its wake including Beyonce’s album.

“Cowboy Carter” will fall, like everything else, by the wayside. The Beyonce album has sold around 700,000 copies including streaming. My guess is, Swift will sell that in her first week.

All of Beyonce’s tracks are out of the top 20, too, making way for Swift to swamp iTunes. Even “Texas Hold Em” is gone, although it will remain on the radio for a long time.

Swift advance orders will fuel her opening, and you know she’ll be making appearances everywhere. She has an uncanny instinct for promotion, unlike Beyonce who kept away from it.

Get ready for a Beyonce vs. Taylor Swift showdown in January at the next Grammy Awards. Beyonce will win, I’m telling you now.

Come back after midnight for a Swiftian review.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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