Intense ba? The one of the most intense confrontation scene in Philippine Television History for me. Nothing beats this epic scene. As in di kami nagalaw sa kinauupuan namin nuon.
#IkawLamang
20 years ago today, @taylorswift13 made her first appearance on a Billboard chart, as her debut single “Tim McGraw” entered #HotCountrySongs at No. 60. 📈🤠
In that week’s issue, Billboard wrote that the then-16-year-old singer “gets first national chart ink exclusively in Billboard. Song title name-checks fellow artist.” Fittingly, @TheTimMcGraw himself was at No. 4 on the chart that week with “When the Stars Go Blue.”
“Tim McGraw” went on to peak at No. 6 on Hot Country Songs 30 weeks later and also became Swift’s first Billboard Hot 100 hit, reaching No. 40 in January 2007. The song served as the lead single from Swift’s self-titled debut album, which later spent 24 weeks at No. 1 on Top Country Albums.
Take a look at Swift’s first-ever Billboard chart appearance, and swipe to see the full chart from that week. https://t.co/An5dWIjrpx
20 years ago today, Taylor Swift made her first ever appearance on a Billboard chart.
She's now the #1 biggest artist of the 21st century on the Billboard charts.
Olivia is charging $40 for an incomplete vinyl with no lyric booklet inside?! If this were Taylor, there would already be viral tweets calling her greedy and capitalist with 100k+ likes. Meanwhile, Taylor’s vinyl releases are ALWAYS thoughtfully put together. The TTPD vinyl has more tracks than Olivia’s new record and includes a full lyric booklet yet she only sells it for $35.
One thing Taylor consistently does well is make fans feel like they are getting value for their money. She knows streaming exists and that nobody has to buy physical copies, so she gives people extra reasons to buy her physicals like adding bonus tracks, lyric booklets and different covers. She understands that fans work hard for their money and shows appreciation by making the product feel worth the purchase 🤍
#TaylorSwift made her debut 20 years ago and is the undisputed #1 Artist of our generation, a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon who redefined music itself and whose cultural impact transcends eras...💪🐐👑🤍
She is the #1 best-selling Artist of the 21st century with 270 equivalent album units sold, the #1 Billboard 200 Artist of All Time with the biggest album debut in Billboard 200 history (4M units), the only Artist to have 8 albums debuting on the Billboard 200 with over 1M units each, the Artist with the most Hot 100 No. 1s of the Century (15) and of the Decade (10), the Female Artist with the most Hot 100 debuts (9), the only Artist to occupy the whole Top 10 (3 times), Top 12 & Top 14 simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100, the Solo Artist with the most No. 1s on the Billboard Global 200 (7) and the Artist with the most No. 1s on Digital song sales (32)! She is the #1 most-streamed Female Artist in Apple Music history & the most streamed Artist of all time on Spotify (126.5B) with the biggest album debut in history (314.5M)! She's the artist with the most Album of the Year wins in GRAMMY history (4)! She's the #1 highest-grossing touring Artist of all time with the highest-grossing Tour (Eras Tour, $2.1B! She's also the youngest woman ever to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the only musical act to be named TIME’s Person of the Year!
A visionary songwriter, business powerhouse, and Global Icon, Taylor, the Legend, doesn’t just break records and make history, she rewrites the rules!
#20YearsOfTaylorSwift
Today marks #20YearsOfTaylorSwift.
Widely regarded as the biggest star on the planet, Taylor Swift has cultivated an era-defining career spanning 20 years, with her twelve record-shattering albums catapulting her into music history’s Big 5 (joining The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, and Queen), claiming the honor of being the #1 best-selling female artist of all time (with 270 million album units) and solidifying her place as the de facto leader of the 21st century.
She is the #1 highest-grossing touring artist of all time, the #1 Billboard 200 artist of all time, the #1 most-streamed artist in Spotify history, the #2 most-streamed artist in Apple Music history, the #1 best-selling artist of the 21st century, the #1 most-awarded female artist of all time, the youngest woman to ever be inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the only musical act to ever be hailed TIME’s Person of the Year, the only artist to ever have eight 1M+ debuts on Billboard 200, and the record holder for the most Album of the Year wins in GRAMMYs’ seven-decade history (with a legendary four AOTY wins).
Among the near-unbreakable records that have cemented and immortalized her legacy, the biggest of them all are her cataclysmic, economy-shifting, earthshaking Eras Tour holding the title as the #1 highest-grossing tour of all time (with an unprecedented $2.077 billion total); her streaming behemoth “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT” obliterating the record for the biggest album debut in Spotify history (with a whopping 314.5 million first-day streams); her being the only artist in history to ever *completely* sweep the entire Top 10, the entire Top 12, and the entire Top 14 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart; and her sales juggernaut “The Life of a Showgirl” holding the record for the biggest album debut in Billboard 200 history, amassing an astronomical 4.005 million album copies (U.S.) on its first week alone and practically breaking every single sales record in existence.
Her monumental 13th studio album is yet to come.
Olivia Rodrigo’s “you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love” debuts with 81.6 million streams on Global Spotify.
It becomes the largest debut by a non-Taylor female artist ever, breaking the famed “folklore wall”.