This Week’s Favorite New Music: Fans Select Taylor Swift’s ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’
Taylor Swift performs onstage throughout “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” at SoFi Stadium on August 09, 2023 in Inglewood, California. Kevin Winter/TAS23/Getty Images
Taylor Swift‘s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) tops this week’s new music ballot.
Music followers voted in a ballot revealed Friday (Oct. 28) on Billboard, selecting the pop icon’s re-recorded album as their favourite new music launch of the previous week.
1989 (Taylor’s Version) coincidentally introduced in 89% of the vote, beating out new music from Brent Faiyaz, David Guetta and extra.
Swift, who’s reclaiming her music catalog, launched the extremely anticipated 2023 re-recording of her hit 1989 album, which initially arrived in 2014. Besides recent variations of the unique monitor listing, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) options 5 new-to-fans “From the Vault” tracks: “Slut!,” “Say Don’t Go,” “Now That We Don’t Talk,” “Suburban Legends” and “Is It Over Now?” See if you happen to agree with Billboard‘s rating of these new “From the Vault” songs here.
1989 (Taylor’s Version) offered over 250,000 copies within the U.S. on its first day of launch, according to initial reports to knowledge monitoring agency Luminate. After simply someday, the album had the third-largest gross sales week of 2023. Album gross sales will improve within the coming days; the present monitoring week ends on Thursday, Nov. 2.
Trailing behind 1989 (Taylor’s Version) on the ballot is Brent Faiyaz’s new album Larger Than Life, with 5% of the vote.
See the ultimate outcomes of this week’s new music ballot beneath.
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