Why Taylor Swift's "1989" is the definition of COMPLETE era in music:

P.S. - Not 'the best and biggest', but 'complete'.

𝘼𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢 𝘼𝙘𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙢:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬' review:

"But by making pop with almost no contemporary references, Ms. Swift is aiming somewhere even higher, a mode of timelessness that few true pop stars — aside from, say, Adele,.... — even bother aspiring to."

𝐆𝐐: Few artists get to make one album like 1989 in their careers; Swift, it seems, has more of them to come.

𝐍𝐏𝐑: critic Ken Tucker compared it to The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, as both records were "designed to be listened to from first cut to last."

𝘼𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢 𝙎𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙨:

- World's Best-Selling Studio Album of 2014
- Best-Selling Album of the Year in the US
- Best-Selling Female Album of the Year in Australia & Canada
- Best-Selling International Western Album of the Year in Japan
- Best-Selling Digital Album in China

- 22 MILLION album units sold (2018)
- 3rd best-selling album of the 2010s (pure)
- 3rd highest-certified album of the 2010s (9x PLATINUM)
- 3rd best-selling female album of the 2010s in Australia and Canada
- 2nd best-selling digital album in history of China (Western)

𝐀𝐥𝐥-𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞:

- #1 Longest-charting female album in history of Australia
- #2 Longest-charting female album in history of Canada
- 4th Longest-charting female album in history of the UK & US
- 5th Longest-charting international female album in history of Japan

𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚𝙨:

- 3 Billboard Hot 100 #1 songs
- 5 Billboard Hot 100 Top 10s
- 3 Australian #1 songs
- 5 Australian Top 10s
- 3 Canadian Hot 100 #1 songs
- 6 Canadian Hot 100 Top 10s
- 3 UK Official Chart Top 5 hits
- 5 Pop Radio #1 songs
- 5 Digital Song Sales Chart #1 songs

𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬:

DIAMND - Shake It Off
8x PLATINUM - Blank Space
6x PLATINUM - Bad Blood
4x PLATINUM - Wildest Dreams
3x PLATINUM - Style
PLATINUM - Out Of The Woods
PLATINUM - This Love
PLATINUM - WTNY
GOLD - IKP
GOLD - AYHTDWS
GOLD - HYGTG
GOLD - New Romantics

𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦:

Shake It Off - Best Pop Song of the 2010s (Amazon)
Blank Space - One of the Defining Songs of the 2010s (Billboard)
Style - One of the Best Songs of 2010s (Insider)
New Romantics - Best Female Song of 2014 & 7th Best Song of the Decade (Rolling Stone)

𝐀𝐥𝐥-𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞:

Shake It Off:
Hot 100 - ##139
Hot 100 (women) - #47
Adult Top 40 - #37
Blank Space:
Hot 100 - #387

𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞-𝐄𝐧𝐝:
Shake It Off:
Australia - #23
Hot 100: #34
UK - #76
Blank Space:
Hot 100: #65
Australia: #84

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𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙨:

+98 awards won for '1989' era, including:

- Most-Awarded Pop Era of the Century
- 3 Grammy Awards
- 1 Emmy Award
- 8 Billboard Music Awards
- 6 AMAs Awards
- 1 Brit Award
- 4 MTV VMAs
- 2 MTV EMAs
- 2 Guinness World Records
- 7 BMI Awards
- 2 Clio Awards

𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙𝙬𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙏𝙤𝙪𝙧:

- $258.7 MILLION revenue
- 2.4 MILLION attendees
- 85 Shows, 4 Continents
- 31 Stadiums & 52 Arenas
- Completely Sold-Out
- #1 Highest-Grossing North American Tour (now 'reputation')
- Highest-Grossing Pop Tour of 2015
- Broken +40 WW records

𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙩:

- 1989 is credited for boosting trad. album sales in the era of streaming.

- 1989 is noted to have popularized crossovers from other genres to pop, without having to adapt to urban sounds.

- Often cited as an example for a commercially successful crossover.

- Consequence of Sound called '1989' as 'the Thriller of the 2010s.'

- The Polaroid-based aesthetic of 1989 has been credited with giving vintage cameras a huge boost in sales.

- Spotify launched a social media campaign requesting Swift to release 1989 on the platform.

𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙:

IFPI World's Best-Selling Artist of 2014
Billboard Woman of the Year
Billboard Artist of the Year
Elle Woman of the Year
BMI Songwriter of the Year
The Taylor Swift Award
50th Milestone Award
Brits International Female Artist
+20 more artist awards

𝙏𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮:

16B streams, 57M pure copies sold, 130M units sold, 8.4B views, +98 awards & $258.7M tour revenue.

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