Taylor Swift Beats Out Elon Musk—And BTS—On Twitter
Topline
A tweet from Taylor Swift celebrating the discharge of her re-recorded album Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model)—the newest effort by Swift to reclaim her early albums—turned the top-performing publish on Twitter for this week, beating out Elon Musk and others.
A tweet from Taylor Swift was the most-liked publish on Twitter this week.
Key Details
Swift’s tweet Friday saying the discharge of the re-recorded album has collected greater than 280,000 retweets and 1 million likes because it was posted Friday at midday.
Swift introduced the album—initially launched in October 2010—in a tweet final month, which has since garnered over 326,100 retweets and 1.1 million likes.
The tweet outperformed one other from Musk—who joked after saying “non permanent” studying limits for the platform—that acquired almost 660,000 likes and over 93,500 retweets since July 2.
Massive Hit Music—the Korean music label for Ok-pop superstars BTS—additionally fell under Swift, with a tweet that includes member Jungkook’s new track “Seven.”
Essential Quote
Swift celebrated the re-recorded album, noting it was “an album I wrote alone concerning the whims, fantasies, heartaches, dramas and tragedies I lived out as a younger lady.”
Shocking Truth
Swift’s tweet is the sixth-most-liked Twitter publish this yr, falling simply behind a tweet from Buffalo Payments participant Demar Hamlin, who thanked his followers 4 days after he suffered a cardiac arrest throughout a daily season recreation. Swift’s tweet saying the discharge of Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model) is the fourth-most-liked thus far this yr.
Key Background
Swift determined to re-record every of her six albums after Massive Machine Data—with whom Swift initially signed—bought their rights over to music supervisor Scooter Braun in 2019. Braun then bought the rights to Shamrock Capitol, although Swift claimed she was by no means given the chance to buy them. Swift launched re-recorded variations of Fearless and Crimson final yr, although she has but to announce the discharge of recent variations for Taylor Swift, 1989 and Fame. The re-recorded albums have been commercially profitable, after Crimson (Taylor’s Model) bought over 325,000 copies within the first 5 days after it was launched. Following Swift’s announcement she would re-record her unique albums, iHeartRadio stated it might solely broadcast her re-recordings.
Tangent
Swift altered a lyric within the album’s tenth track, “Higher than Revenge,” altering the road, “However she’s higher recognized for the issues that she does on the mattress” to, “He was a moth to the flame, she was holding the matches.” Swift has not commented on why she made the change, although some criticized the road for being “deeply sexist.”
Additional Studying
Taylor Swift Declares Re-Recorded ‘Communicate Now’—And Hits A New Document (Forbes)
Taylor Swift Modifications Controversial ‘Higher Than Revenge’ Lyric On ‘Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model)’ (Forbes)
Elon Musk Beast Out Rihanna for Most-Preferred Tweet Of 2023 (Forbes)