Business
Taylor Swift Weekend: $33 Million Made from Infomercial Movie for New Album, More than 5 Times Box office for The Rock’s Wrestling Movie
Ka ching!
Taylor Swift Weekend continues.
"The Official Album Party Release Infomercial" made $33 million in three days.
The "film" plugs her new album, "The Life of...
Music
Taylor Swift Jumps the Shark with “Surprise” Extra CDs to Sell Us Now That “The Life of a Showgirl” Could Set a Record
Taylor Swift is a merchandising maven.
As I've said before, Harvard should let her take over the business school.
Now that her album, "The Life of...
Business
Taylor Swift Not Allowing Individual Tracks from “Showgirl” to Be Downloaded, to Drive Up Album Sales and Protect the Songs
I was wondering why no singles from "The Life of a Showgirl" were showing up on iTunes.
Turns out it's not going to happen.
Swift and...
Music
The Jackson 5 Motown Songwriters Won’t Be Happy When They Hear “I Want You Back” as Taylor Swift’s New Song, “Wood”
Many of the Jackson 5 songs were written by Fonce Mizell, Freddie Perren, Deke Richards, and Berry Gordy.
They called themselves The Corporation.
The music was...
Media
Taylor Swift “Showgirl”: The Fix Is In as iTunes X Account Posts for 1st Time in Six Years, Rolling Stone Turns Over Magazine to...
Before September 10th of this year, iTunes hadn't posted a Tweet, now an X, since 2019.
That was six years ago.
Suddenly, about a dozen posts...
Music
Fleetwood Mac 2026 Farewell Tour Possible: Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood Wish Lindsay Buckingham a Happy Birthday on Social Media
No one's said anything yet, but a Fleetwood Mac 2026 farewell tour looks all but certain.
Today both Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood each wished...
Music
Antisemitic Singer Lorde, Who Has Few Record Sales Worldwide This Year, Sees Songs Pulled from Apple in Israel
Lorde, the New Zealand singer with one hit in twelve years, has underscored her previous antisemitism.
She's seen her music pulled from iTunes in Israel...
Music
Taylor Swift’s New Album So Far Hasn’t Generated Any Hits on iTunes or Spotify But Rolling Stone Is All In
What is going on here?
"The Life of a Showgirl" album by Taylor Swift -- released at midnight -- is number 1 on amazon and...