Taylor Swift Feat. Ed Sheeran - Everything Has Changed

It may have escaped your attention but Taylor Swift is releasing her new album this week. After managing to rack up more top 40 UK hits in the past month than she's managed over the course of the rest of her career, she seems to have cracked this promo single malarkey.

In the US however she really is quite the tour de force. She managed to get a whopping 10 top 40 hits from her sophomore album 'Fearless'. On the opening week of follow up album 'Speak Now' she managed to place every track off the album onto the Hot 100 that week. In the US alone she has sold over 50 million downloads - a tally which I'm sure is just going to rocket once more this week. Here's what's happening on US itunes right now:

1 Taylor Swift Everything Has Changed (feat. Ed Sheeran) 

3 Taylor Swift I Almost Do 

4 Taylor Swift 22 

5 Taylor Swift All Too Well 

8 Taylor Swift Treacherous 

11 Taylor Swift Stay Stay Stay 

13 Taylor Swift Starlight 

14 Taylor Swift The Last Time (feat. Gary Lightbody) 

15 Taylor Swift Holy Ground 

16 Taylor Swift The Lucky One 

17 Taylor Swift Red 

19 Taylor Swift Sad Beautiful Tragic 

20 Taylor Swift We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together 

21 Taylor Swift I Knew You Were Trouble 

22 Taylor Swift I Knew You Were Trouble. 

31 Taylor Swift Begin Again 

32 Taylor Swift State of Grace 

38 Taylor Swift State of Grace 

39 Taylor Swift We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

65 Taylor Swift Red 

So I think it's safe to say the invasion has begun. Interestingly enough it is her duet with the UK's own Ed Sheeran that is leading the pack with this nice little number:

P!nk - Try

The second from P!nk's new album



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Ever since P!nk delivered the incredible Who Knew (with the help of Max Martin and Dr Luke) I have been very much into her pop music.  Some of her earlier hits like God Is A DJ, Get The Party Started and Trouble just never really clicked with me.  So over the past few years P!nk has really delivered some top notch pop albums in my opinion (namely 'I'm Not Dead' and 'Funhouse') so you can imagine my excitement at the prospect of a new album.  The thing is it's all starting to get a bit too formulaic for my liking - we had So What then Raise Your Glass and now Blow Me all of which seem like weaker imitations of their predecessor.  Now don't get me wrong Blow Me (One Last Kiss) is still an 8/10 pop song but I'm just passing comment.  Hence when listening to 'The Truth About Love' I felt that the album was very consistent and delivered some good pop tunes from P!nk but it just lacked those glimmering tracks of greatness.  Though one of the bonus tracks Is This Thing On? is a particular favourite of mine at the moment and has been played quite a lot today.  Who knows why that didn't make to official cut.

I found it interesting in one review I read of the album said that the simple fact was that the singer formerly known as Alecia Beth Moore was just too happy.  She'd recently got back with her ex-husband and everything seems as happy as larry for her.  But happiness doesn't necessarily bode well for good song writing.  If you're looking for the incredible heartbreak tracks like P!nk's I Don't Believe You, Adele's Someone Like You or Kelly Clarkson's Because Of You then you need to get your heart broken.

Anyway this is the second single from the album and is one of the stand out tracks for me.  It's the only track on the album that P!nk didn't have a part in writing herself - instead it was written by Ben West and Michael Busbee.  I think the theme of the video seems to be dancing out a domestic violence scene but it does make for a bit of an uncomfortable watch in scenes.  I'm sure this will take off nicely in time fro Christmas and give the album a nice boost in sales.  Well done P!nk.