Beth Garrabrant
Taylor Swift
When Taylor Swift’s shock album Folklore blasted in atop the Billboard 200 chart with the finest week of the year for any album, she no longer handiest did it without the earnings of any pre-commence promotion, but also whereas taking a sonic left-flip away from pure pop and actual into a more different soundscape.
On the latest Pop Store Podcast (hear beneath), the team discusses Swift’s narrative chart feats completed with Folklore and its single “Cardigan,” and speculates on if the album would have completed such gargantuan heights if it had been a shock-released venerable pop effort. The Pop Customers also chat about on how Folklore also can have introduced in new fans to the Swift fold, because of her collaborations with alt-rock acts fancy Bon Iver and The Nationwide’s Aaron Dessner.
And within the kill, would possibly per chance Folklore ingredient into the slump for album of the year on the upcoming Grammy Awards? Despite all the issues, Swift has been nominated three cases, and obtained twice (for Valorous and 1989). On the opposite hand, her closing two albums, Lover and Popularity, didn’t create the minimize. Would possibly per chance Folklore flip the tide?
Moreover to all of the Swift chatter, the latest Pop Store Podcast episode aspects an interview with singer-songwriter Alessia Cara. The Grammy Award-winner for handiest new artist joins the expose to discuss her new charity album This Summer: Reside off the Ground, why she’s donating all her proceeds from the project to Set up the Children, and how the are residing album puts an “emotional” new twist on her songs.
The Billboard Pop Store Podcast is your one-end store for all issues pop on Billboard‘s weekly charts. You would possibly per chance repeatedly count on a full of life dialogue about the latest pop info, relaxing chart stats and stories, new music, and guest interviews with music stars and folk from the sector of pop. Informal pop fans and chart junkies can hear Billboard‘s senior director of charts Keith Caulfield and senior director, music, Jason Lipshutz per week on the podcast, which is willing to be streamed on Billboard.com or downloaded in Apple Podcasts or your accepted podcast provider. (Click on here to hear to the outdated model of the expose on Billboard.com.)
