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☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ sees biggest album debut week in nearly 7 years
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

In streaming, Swift scores the third-largest streaming week for an album, by total on-demand official streams (549.26 million), and also logs the biggest streaming week for a non-R&B/hip-hop album and any album by a woman. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 110,000 equivalent album units earned (down 49%) after scoring the top spot a week prior. 6 in its debut week with 37,500 units (of that total, 28,500 units consist of album sales). 7 with 37,000 equivalent album units earned. 8 with 32,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%) and Beyonce’s former No.

☆ Taylor Swift makes the top 10 spots of the Billboard Hot 100 all her own
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Taylor Swift is breaking yet another record thanks to the release of her most recent album “Midnights.”The entertainer, who already became Spotify’s most-streamed artist over a 24-hour period upon the release of the record earlier this month, now claims all top ten slots of the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time, according to the music charting website on Monday. Swift is the first artist to ever accomplish the feat in Billboard’s 64-year history. She beat Drake, who in September 2021 claimed nine of the Hot 100’s top 10 spots for a week. According to Billboard, the Hot 100 list “blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data.”At the top of the list this week is “Anti-Hero,” the lead single off of “Midnights,” which is Swift’s tenth studio album. The other nine slots are also claimed by songs from the new album, including the tracks “Lavender Haze” and “Karma.”The accomplishment gives Swifties yet another reason to rejoice, adding yet another bauble to their beloved artist’s “bejeweled” crown.

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Breaks Album Sales Records in First Week
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Anne Steele | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Taylor Swift is the only artist to sell at least a million copies in a single week for five different albums. Taylor Swift ’s newest album marked her biggest debut yet, a feat in the streaming era as fans snapped up the music digitally and purchased a record amount of vinyl. “Midnights” sold 1.58 million copies across formats, according to Luminate Data, formerly Nielsen Music, delivering it to the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart with the biggest sales week of the year—and the biggest sales week since Adele ’s “25” seven years ago.

☆ Taylor Swift let fans down by removing 'fatphobic' scene from 'Anti-Hero' video
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Maya Georgi | Maya Georgi Is The Editorial Assistant At Nbc News Think | A Cultural Writer Focusing On Entertainment | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Shortly after Taylor Swift released her music video for “Anti-Hero,” the lead single from her new album “Midnights,” she was criticized on social media for a visual that people deemed fatphobic. Taylor Swift in her "Anti-Hero" music video. Did she not stand by the critique she was making with this specific scene and the song and music video altogether? Unfortunately, as Swift sings in her 2020 song “Peace,” she “never has the courage of her convictions.” It is a frustrating reality to contend with as a fan of hers. And she knows it, as she also sings, “it must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero” in “Anti-Hero.” It is, Taylor, it really is.

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero’ video edited to remove ‘fat’ reference after criticisms
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Taylor Swift’s music video for “Midnights” lead single “Anti-Hero” has been edited to remove a scene that shows her stepping on a bathroom scale that read “fat.”The music video on Apple Music appears to no longer shows the scale, instead, Swift’s anti-hero clone just looks at her with a face of disappointment. The music video on YouTube still features the scale displaying the word “fat.”Contacted by Variety, reps for Swift and Apple Music did not immediately have a comment. “But the way that Lana (Wilson, the film’s director) tells the story, it really makes sense. I’m not as articulate as I should be about this topic because there are so many people who could talk about it in a better way. If I was given a punishment, I registered that as bad.”

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero’ Music Video Cuts ‘Fat’ Scene Following Backlash
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A screen-grab of the bathroom scale scene from Taylor Swift’s music video for ‘Anti-Hero’ on YouTube. A scene was removed from Taylor Swift ’s “Anti-Hero” music video during which she stepped on a scale that read “fat,” a segment some critics called fatphobic. In the video, which was released on Oct. 21, Ms. Swift goes through a series of what she calls her nightmare scenarios. The moment in question involved her stepping on a scale in a bathroom before a camera zooms into the reading, which has no numbers and just says “FAT.”

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Has Already Moved a Million Copies. And Her Opening Week Isn’t Even Over Yet.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Neil Shah | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” is having a monster opening week—one that could prove to be the largest of her entire career. The pop star’s new album, which came out Friday, has moved over 1.2 million units in the U.S. in its first three days of release, according to initial numbers from Luminate, the data tracker behind the Billboard music charts. The album’s final tally is expected to be even higher, since Luminate’s tracking week goes through this Thursday, Oct. 27. On Sunday, “Midnights” is all but certain to top the latest Billboard album chart with the biggest sales week of the year.

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero’ music video appears to have been edited on one platform amid backlash
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The backlash against one moment in Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” music video appears to have prompted an edit on at least one platform. The video, which was written and directed by the singer, is meant to portray Swift’s “nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts,” according to her Instagram. The version of the video featured on Apple Music no longer cuts to the word, a moment some body positivity advocates construed as fatphobic. The YouTube version of the music video still featured the controversial scene as of Wednesday afternoon. In her 2020 documentary “Miss Americana,” Swift said unflattering pictures and unkind comments about her figure would sometimes “trigger me to just starve a little bit – just stop eating.”The controversial moment in Taylor Swift's music video, 'Anti-Hero' from the album 'Midnights'.

☆ 6 things Taylor Swift has taught me about living well
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Over that time, here is what I’ve learned from Taylor Swift about living better. Taylor Swift performs at the 41st Annual Country Music Association Awards, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007, in Nashville, Tennessee. When “Taylor Swift is canceled” was trending on Twitter, she turned the experience into an album. I’ve learned from Swift not to take life too seriously and to be the first to laugh at my blunders. Many young people growing up alongside Taylor Swift have learned so much as she shares her growth with us.

☆ Penn Badgley channels 'You' character in his TikTok debut
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

CNN —Penn Badgley got a killer star on TikTok. The actor channeled his “You” character, serial killer Joe Goldberg, for his debut post Monday. In his TikTok post, Badgley is seen running to the door. When he opens it, Badgley is there, dressed like his “You” character. Badgley as himself lip syncs, “Hi” before the Goldberg character drops the lyric, “I’m the problem, it’s me.”His followers went wild, including Swift who dropped an “OMG” with the starry eyed emoji in his comments.

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ is already breaking records, of course
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Taylor Swift gets some love from Janet Jackson for name-drop on 'Midnights'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

After humming along to the melody, Jackson sweetly says, “It’s nice, it’s nice,” at the end of the clip. In the caption, Jackson wrote, “i LUV it @taylorswift #snowonthebeach #taylorswift #lanadelray”. “Midnights,” Swift’s tenth original studio album, is already breaking records, with Spotify announcing on Saturday that it helped the ever-popular “Evermore” singer to achieve new heights. “Midnights” on Friday became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day, the music streaming platform shared. That feat also allowed Swift to break the record for the most-streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history.

☆ Taylor Swift 'Midnights' album gives TikTok fan groups more fodder, and community
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Casey Fiesler | Ph.D. | J.D. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The magic of a midnight showing wasn’t just about the film but about the community created standing in line together. Some of these fan theories also fuel speculation that Swift might be queer, and in the lead-up to the album release, this conjecture culminated in debate about whether “Midnights” would be Swift’s coming out album. I study fandom and online communities, especially communities that form around fanfiction, and have seen up close that fan theories bring joy to those who engage in making them. There can be a downside to fan theories created around celebrities, of course. But for now, my For You Page has been full of excited videos from fans just enjoying Swift’s music.

☆ Analysis: 'From Scratch' serves up one of this week's tastiest new shows
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Three things to watch‘From Scratch’(From left) Eugenio Mastrandrea, Zoe Saldaña, Judith Scott and Keith David in a scene from "From Scratch." Even though I know how it all ends, I’m looking forward to “From Scratch,” which is streaming now. ‘The School for Good and Evil’(From left) Kerry Washington as Professor Dovey and Charlize Theron as Lady Lesso in a scene from "The School for Good and Evil." There are plenty of arbitration shows out there, but this one is definitely in a courtroom of its own. Something to sip on(From left) Selma Blair and her dance partner, Sasha Farber, perform on an episode of "Dancing With the Stars."

On TikTok, the hashtag “Gaylor” has more than 264 million views; the term refers to Swift fans who subscribe to the theory that she is queer. Fans have gone down these rabbit holes before, speculating over other hints across Swift’s songs, music videos and social media posts. Previous Easter eggs discovered by fans include the album title for “Lover” hidden in the background of the music video for “Me!” ahead of the album title’s announcement. “I think a lot of people have to deal with this now ... because we live in the era of social media,” Swift said. In a 2019 interview with Vogue, she addressed why she made her support for the LGBTQ community more visible.

☆ Taylor Swift Has So Much New Music. How Will She Ever Perform It All?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Neil Shah | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Most music stars have one new album out when they embark on a tour. Then there’s Taylor Swift. Ms. Swift’s latest work, “Midnights,” a synth-driven pop album which was released Friday, brings the singer-songwriter to four entire records she has never performed on tour.

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ album is out. So, what’s the verdict?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Toyin Owoseje | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Taylor Swift is endorsing late nights with her first original album in two years. The 11-time Grammy Award winner unveiled her 10th studio album, “Midnights,” on Friday, following a surprise announcement at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. Taylor Swift performs onstage during NSAI 2022 Nashville Songwriter Awards at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee on September 20, 2022. Another said: “Taylor Swift mothered so hard with Midnights no one will ever come close to her level of prodigiousness. “She’s playing with cadence and emphasizing the grain of her voice like never before … eventually you stop caring what’s drawn directly from Swift’s real life and what’s not,” he writes.

☆ Ahead of Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights,’ Swifties Take Naps, Set Alarms for Latest Night Yet
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Jennifer Calfas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Taylor Swift promised her upcoming album “Midnights” would capture 13 “sleepless nights” in her life. For weeks, Ms. Swift has unveiled the names of the 13 tracks to “Midnights” with videos posted promptly at 12 a.m. New merchandise—including signed CDs and vinyl records—also came late at night. Billboards from Spotify revealing lyrics to some of the songs on her album appeared at midnight local time this week in cities like New York City and London.

Of the roughly 200 songs Taylor Swift has released since the start of her recording career, “All Too Well” has long been a fan favorite—it’s the song, Ms. Swift has said, that concertgoers request more than any other. But what do other listeners think? A national poll conducted by Ipsos for The Wall Street Journal posed the open-ended question “What is your favorite Taylor Swift song?” to a nationally representative sample of 1,024 people. Though their selections may not reflect the tastes of die-hard Swifties, they show the enduring power of Ms. Swift’s catchy chart toppers, dating back to her first album.

☆ Taylor Swift 'Midnights': Joe Alwyn's pseudonym appears on 'Midnights' track
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Megan Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Swift put a stop the the guessing in a 2020 Disney+ documentary about the project. “There’s been a lot of discussion about William Bowery and his identity, because it’s not a real person,” Swift said in the documentary. “So William Bowery is Joe, as we know. And Joe plays piano beautifully and he’s always just playing and making things up and kind of creating things,” she added. Fans will have wait a few more hours for “Sweet Nothing” to debut to hear the couple’s latest collaboration.

☆ NASA telescope images reveal brightest explosion ever recorded, as a star collapses into a black hole
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

NASA space telescopes detected the brightest explosion ever recorded. Images show the faint object erupting with powerful gamma rays. About 1.9 billion years ago, a dying star collapsed, exploding in a powerful burst of gamma rays that careened toward Earth. Images taken in visible light by Swift’s Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope show how the afterglow of GRB 221009A (circled) faded over the course of about 10 hours. It could be decades before another gamma-ray burst this bright appears again.

☆ Taylor Swift’s new lyrics got a Times Square reveal
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

CNN —Taylor Swift takes over Times Square. To celebrate her upcoming album “Midnights,” Spotify and Swift are sharing some lyrics leading up to the release on Oct. 21. “Listeners around the world have spent many a midnight with Taylor Swift. “This is why Spotify has teamed up with Taylor to exclusively reveal lyrics from her new album Midnights around the world leading into the album’s release.”Fans will get a sneak peek of new lyrics from her album each day on a billboard in Times Square in New York. More lyrics will appear on different billboards across the world.

☆ Kanye West canceled? Here’s why it probably won’t happen
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Kanye West has had so many controversies you may have forgotten a few. The latest calls to cancel West, who legally changed his name to Ye, may be the most intense yet. for America founder Brigitte Gabriel tweeted her support for West, one of her followers responded, “I used to judge him quite harshly. There were calls to boycott West in 2018 after comments he made about the history of slavery in the United States. There have been several other controversies since that have not stopped West from achieving mass success with his fashion and sneaker lines.

☆ Beyoncé denies claim she misused ‘I’m Too Sexy’ sample
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-08 | by ( Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Genre-crossing superstar Beyoncé has denied allegations that she misused a sample of Right Said Fred’s “I’m Too Sexy” on her newest album. Right Said Fred described Beyoncé as “arrogant” in a comment made to the British tabloid The Sun on Tuesday. Fred Fairbrass and Richard Fairbrass of the band Right Said Fred during the ARD TV-Show "Schlagerbooom - Das Internationale Schlagerfest" at Westfalenhalle on November 2, 2019, in Dortmund, Germany. “The comments made by Right Said Fred stating that Beyoncé used ‘I’m Too Sexy’ in ‘Alien Superstar’ without permission are erroneous and incredibly disparaging,” the singer’s representative told Entertainment Weekly on Friday. Additionally, “Alien Superstar” doesn’t use any of the sound recordings from “I’m Too Sexy,” just the composition, according to the statement.

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