Taylor Swift [merged]

[Nocturnal]

PROMO!!!

So apparently, you buy a cd, and you get a free pizza.

 

[ILLBFIRE]

ROFLMAO

Only Taylor Swift can sell her CD for more money and still call it a promo...

Beginning October 22, the album’s release date, the company will offer fans the ability to purchase Red and a large one-topping pizza for $22 in-store or at www.papajohns.com.

 

[bostonboy20]

Love the new album!

 

[DigitalFudge]

22 is THA BOP

 

[Nocturnal]

I remember when Monster/Gaga/BTW got dragged last year for the Amazon deal, and some lil **** was up in Gaga's thread talking shit about how we should apologize to Taylor for whatever the hell he was talking about.

Buy a cd, get a free pizza? What now? LOL

 

[jodelleferlandfan1]

Her new album is amazing!

 

[ILLBFIRE]

HAHA I guess Lady Gagas crazy fans can't see straight or they just can't read

I guess all they can see is green since they are green with envy.

I'm dancing all night long while eating a hot slice of pizza

 

[Mrbrightside976]

There is a huge difference between selling an album with a pizza for 20 dollars, and selling an album for instant download online for .99 cents. I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous that they counted that on billboard.


Whatever, 'Red' has already sold like 600,000 copies so, it's whatever.

 

[Nocturnal]

There is a huge difference between selling an album with a pizza for 20 dollars, and selling an album for instant download online for .99 cents. I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous that they counted that on billboard.


Whatever, 'Red' has already sold like 600,000 copies so, it's whatever.

Pizza only being THE most popular fast food on the planet. Please. Her stans can beg their mommy and daddy to buy pizza for the entire week.


Get that promo!

 

[DigitalFudge]

I almost do/Treacherous/I Knew you were trouble

 

[ILLBFIRE]

Haha its desperation by lady gaga fans.....its soooo sad

Papa jonhs is selling the album for 13.99 or as promo with the pizza for 22 bucks.....wait a minute..wait a minute ...

Lol I think Taylor is throwing shade at the amazon deal....

 

[ILLBFIRE]

Go Taylor!!!!!!!!

It's official: Taylor Swift's "Red" sold a whopping 1.208 million copies last week in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan. That's more than any album has sold in a single week since 2002, when Eminem's "The Eminem Show" sold 1.322 million in its first full week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.



"Red" also easily debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, scoring Swift her third chart-topper.



"Red" is only the 18th album to sell a million units in a single week since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991. Its start ranks as the eighth biggest sales week in that span of time. The SoundScan-era record week is held by *NSYNC's "No Strings Attached," when it debuted at No. 1 with 2.416 million in 2000.



Swift's sizzling start is also the second-largest sales frame for a female artist. Only Britney Spears had a bigger week, when "Oops! . . . I Did It Again" sold 1.319 million in its debut in 2000.



As we projected last week, the blockbuster set marks the first album to move a million copies in a week since May of 2011, when Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" blasted in with 1.108 million in its No. 1 debut. However, "Red's" number is a bit bigger than the 1.1 million that had been forecasted by industry sources.



"Red" also makes Swift the only woman to have two million-selling weeks since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991. The country/pop star earlier earned a million week when her last studio release, 2010's "Speak Now," launched with 1.047 million.



Swift and her "Red" set were inescapable last week, following the album's off-cycle release on Monday, Oct. 22. (Most albums bow on Tuesday each week.) The singer appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America" (Oct. 22 and 23), CBS' "The Late Show With David Letterman" (23), ABC's "The View" (24), "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (25), ABC's "Katie" and "20/20" (26). Her album was available in unconventional locations such as Starbucks, Walgreens (where she had her own dedicated mini-store in each outlet) and Papa John's Pizza.



Further, Target scored the only deluxe version of "Red" with additional audio content (three bonus songs and three remixes), while the iTunes Store was the exclusive digital retailer of the title last week.



Label sources indicate that iTunes sold nearly 465,000 copies of the album -- a record sales week for an iTunes album. Target rang up around 396,000 on its own -- again, a record for the retailer. Swift's unique deal with Papa John's yielded a meaty 8,000 copies of "Red." While that number looks small compared to Target and iTunes, to put it in perspective, it's almost half of the total "Red" CDs sold via Amazon.com. Papa John's sold the CD for $13 and also as part of large one-topping pizza combo for $22. (Large single-topping pizzas on their own sell for $12.) Swift's face was also plastered across the top of Papa John's pizza boxes, so even if customers didn't buy the album, they were certainly aware of it existing.



Impressively, "Red" was able to secure a million-selling week without any deep discount sale pricing. The lowest that the album was advertised for among all major retailers last week was $9.99. That was the price point for the standard edition of the album at Target and Best Buy, while iTunes offered it for $14.99. Kmart and Walmart sold it for $12.99 and $13.99, respectively. Target touted its exclusive deluxe version for $14.99.



"Red's" lack of low pricing stands in contrast to the last album that did a million in a week: Lady Gaga's "Born This Way." That set's 1.108 million first week was fueled partly by Amazon MP3 opting to sell the album for 99 cents on two separate days during its release week. ("Red," however, was only available as a digital album via iTunes, leaving Amazon MP3 -- and any possible discounting -- out of the picture.)

 

[vacancy3]

i swear if this simpleton/no talent/abc pop star/too tall/ stupid cunt wins cma artist of the year again in gonna start listenin to rap/hip-hop....please let her go away lord.....lets get our country roots back now DAMMIT

 

[Nocturnal]

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How... unfortunate.

 

[Nocturnal]

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How... unfortunate.

Carrie Underwood from 1:25 on... bless her jealous heart...

 

[Mrbrightside976]

I think that guy is so desperate to stay relevant. Yeah the lyrics are very similar, but who cares. You would think he wouldn't even care. Whatever, lets see him sell 1,208,000 records in his entire career.

 

[ILLBFIRE]

A sentence??? lol I guess
Let me see a sentence or a WHOLE song...which one is worst..hehehe

What ever happen to the whole Pizza promo talk??? They were making such a big deal but then the numbers for Red come in and it went quiet...Once again crazy Lady Gaga fans got humiliated

All you crazy LG fans can keep this whole "scandal" cuz you have been humiliated time after time after time. I'm starting to feel sorry for all of you...So I'm going to give all of you this early Xmas gift

I'm going back to jamming out to Taylors Album while eating my hot Papa Johns pizza

 

[Callum]

A sentence??? lol I guess
Let me see a sentence or a WHOLE song...which one is worst..hehehe

Both are awful and criminal. Try stealing a sentence in any decent university and see how far it gets you. Oh, wait...rich people/parents can just throw money at that.

 

[Nocturnal]

THE PAPA JOHN'S PIZZA QUEEN

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Well, could be worse... it could .99¢ for ONE day.

 

[ILLBFIRE]

HAHAHAHAHA



I guess Taylors second week numbers came out already...