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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
23 Jan 2022 Acquired Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)
“I think maybe even still before Tumblr or right around the time Tumblr's starting.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 23 Jan 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…It cracked the top 200 in November 2006 and then slowly built over this social media empire, I don't even know what you call it that Taylor is building. To contextualize this, this is before Instagram has launched. I think maybe even still before Tumblr or right around the time Tumblr's starting. Well over a year later, in January 2008, after 63 straight weeks in the top 200, it became the number one album in the world. It ends up, in total, on the Billboard Top 200. It spent 275 weeks on the charts. What other artist and album could do that?…
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