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Blake McCoy
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 31 ธ.ค. 2008
Media 🗞️ Politics 🗣️ Pop Culture 🍿 …but mostly Taylor Swift 👩🏼🎶
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Hi, I’m Blake! 👋🏻 I explore media, politics, and pop culture with insights from my career as a national news correspondent and a fresh perspective. I break down heavy topics with a dose of humor and bring journalistic rigor to lighter subjects.
Big fan of 🎤 Taylor Swift 👩🏼 | Hard Truths 🗣️ | Hot Takes 🔥
I’ve reported nationally for NBC's TODAY, Nightly News & MSNBC, and covered stories in DC, Minneapolis, Las Vegas, and more. I hold journalism & political science degrees from The George Washington University, where I also interned on Capitol Hill.
Proud uncle 🎉 | Avid traveler ✈️ | Forever curious 🙇🏼♂️
Like 👍🏻 & comment 💬 to let me know what catches your interest!
🛎️ SUBSCRIBE! tinyurl.com/Bmccoytv
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Hi, I’m Blake! 👋🏻 I explore media, politics, and pop culture with insights from my career as a national news correspondent and a fresh perspective. I break down heavy topics with a dose of humor and bring journalistic rigor to lighter subjects.
Big fan of 🎤 Taylor Swift 👩🏼 | Hard Truths 🗣️ | Hot Takes 🔥
I’ve reported nationally for NBC's TODAY, Nightly News & MSNBC, and covered stories in DC, Minneapolis, Las Vegas, and more. I hold journalism & political science degrees from The George Washington University, where I also interned on Capitol Hill.
Proud uncle 🎉 | Avid traveler ✈️ | Forever curious 🙇🏼♂️
Like 👍🏻 & comment 💬 to let me know what catches your interest!
Taylor Swift REWRITES the Rules of Book Publishing
Taylor Swift is rewriting the rules again - this time in the world of book publishing. With The Eras Tour book, Swift has bypassed traditional publishers and partnered exclusively with Target to sell her self-published book. The results? 814,000 copies sold in just three days - making it the fastest-selling book of the last four years.
In this video, I break down:
✅ How Taylor Swift’s self-publishing strategy works.
✅ The massive profits Swift is earning compared to traditional publishing models.
✅ Why her exclusive Target deal is a game-changer.
✅ The potential impact on the publishing industry and other artists.
From re-recording her music with Taylor's Version, to bypassing Hollywood studios with the direct release of The Eras Tour film through AMC, and now disrupting the publishing industry, Taylor Swift is fearlessly cutting out the middleman and maximizing her profit. Could this strategy change how books are sold and distributed forever?
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🔍 Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:04 The Eras Tour Book
02:27 Target Exclusive
04:35 First Week Sales
05:55 Traditional VS Self-Publishing
07:52 Taylor’s Advantages
10:10 Taylor’s Next Moves?
11:58 3 Fun Facts from Book
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🔖 Tags: #taylorswift #erastour #erastourbook #publishing #targetexclusive #selfpublishing #musicindustry
In this video, I break down:
✅ How Taylor Swift’s self-publishing strategy works.
✅ The massive profits Swift is earning compared to traditional publishing models.
✅ Why her exclusive Target deal is a game-changer.
✅ The potential impact on the publishing industry and other artists.
From re-recording her music with Taylor's Version, to bypassing Hollywood studios with the direct release of The Eras Tour film through AMC, and now disrupting the publishing industry, Taylor Swift is fearlessly cutting out the middleman and maximizing her profit. Could this strategy change how books are sold and distributed forever?
🔔 SUBSCRIBE: tinyurl.com/Bmccoytv
🔔 Don’t forget to like, comment and subscribe for more deep dives into Taylor Swift’s groundbreaking moves in music, business, and pop culture.
----------
✅ CONNECT w/Blake McCoy:
📸 Instagram: blakingnews
💻 Facebook: blakingnews
⏰ TikTok: tiktok.com/@blakingnews
🐦 Twitter: blakingnews
📺 TH-cam: tinyurl.com/Bmccoytv
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🔍 Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:04 The Eras Tour Book
02:27 Target Exclusive
04:35 First Week Sales
05:55 Traditional VS Self-Publishing
07:52 Taylor’s Advantages
10:10 Taylor’s Next Moves?
11:58 3 Fun Facts from Book
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🔖 Tags: #taylorswift #erastour #erastourbook #publishing #targetexclusive #selfpublishing #musicindustry
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What was the mistake for the Toronto shows? She was there for two weekends.
I would argue Midnights is a pop album.
Just a quick clarification: The Eras Tour book is also available on Taylor’s online merch store (which is unfortunately sold out as of this comment).
Self publish = demise of publishing companies. Just like TH-cam = destruction of legacy media. Good for you Taylor. You better marry that Kelsey Man!!!!!
Absolutely love mine! (Did not attend the Tour but watched MANY Lives.). This is a gorgeous book. 😊
Hmm ever heard of Brandon Sanderson
Bypassing book publishers is the worst thing she has done. The book is full of text mistakes and the pictures are so amateurishly put in there. Many literally have taylor not visible at all in the spine of the book.
2:43 Which is a HUGE issue for literally everyone not in America 🙄
Die hard Swiftie here. I believe TS12 will be purple and orange themed!
Lover: Travis Version is next. 🤣Our girl is such a brilliant business woman! Thank you for breaking this down!
It's getting pathetic, she is soooo damn greedy , just becoming a scammer at this point, wouldn't be surprised if she does a crypto coin next. god damn your a billionaire chill TF out
If she had put it on Amazon globally, she would have broken the record for any book forever. Also Obama's book not only was sold everywhere but was full text. And imagine how much she would make if she sued all the people who are using her name to sell their own books
Fun Fact: Dear John by Nicholas Sparks came out before her song did. Also, Dear John is a a term/phrase when a woman breaks off her relationship with a man, usually happens in a letter, often a military man.
I am such a bad Swiftie. I had no idea that this existed. Song pun not intended
Everybody wins except for mid-list and new authors who suddenly don’t get any advances because all the money goes to celebrity books. Then they get no marketing budget and when that happens readers miss out on tons of wonderful books in exchange for another boring ghostwritten celebrity book. That’s not Taylor’s fault, but the publisher’s. Love Taylor and her business practices.
Great 👍 content!!!
I hope she finds a way to bypass Ticketmaster and sell her own tickets. My guess is that she will do a Vegas residency before she does another tour.
Its a coffe table book, more than a biography.
She's the music industry, and for a moment in time thanks to her movie, she made jaws drop in the Music industry, thats why now you see 'Guts tour Movie', and now she's after the publishing industry, and having the #2 non-fiction debut ever is truly phenomenal. She is *MOTHER* (btw no shade to Olivia <3)
Actually Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson did this in 2022 by offering some books via kickstarter and it became the largested backed kickstarter campaign at 41 mil. Since then a lot of bigger people have started looking at self publishing. Taylor is smart to be the first singer to do this
Why is this channel not getting massive attention?? This analysis is absolutely brilliant 🙌 Will be rewatching this video many, many times. Thank you so much ✨
Yes we know already, its been reviewed and discussed a hundred times. TAYLOR is a TARGET stockholder...so why wouldn't she release it through Target? Reminder....she's also a business woman!!!!
Great research + exploration, thanks for this video. A side note comes to our minds: all starts would earn a lot more money if music would still sell physical as Cds or Vinyl. Taylor hit some heights in sales on that field too. But compared to before streaming or even to the 60s - 90s, that's before the internet, even her physical record sales are small compared to her level of fame and the size of her fanbase. In short: she and her team know that records don't sell because people use streaming which doesn't pay much to artists ( Taylor had her own battle with Apple and Spotify over this) - so her now selling everything else that has value apart from clothes merch or fragrances, like she does with this book and a film about each tour, is also the new income model for musicians in fame. Mini side not tho this side note: Every artists - so most other artists on the planet, who are in the lower 3 quarters of the pyramid, are basically poor compared to where they could be if people would still buy music on records. However, Taylor is of the most professional ones when it comes to generate revenue from multiple products aside the physical record of what she actually does, music. ( We do like her music btw).
Lucky you, I’m waiting for it in Europe 😅😊
Taylor needs MORE money.
Why does Taylor have such a huge skull?
She’s gross, she doesn’t care about the collateral damage to other artists or her fans and how her schemes impact the bigger picture of the capitalist side of all this. At this point she’s a brand and a business, artist third. Tayzon, or something better.
Her relationship with Target goes back further than Speak Now. There were Target exclusive editions of Taylor Swift (Deluxe), Fearless and Fearless: Platinum Edition. Those releases probably just didn't have the big ad campaigns the other ones did. She's had a Target exclusive edition of every album she has released in some form or another.
EXCELLENT presentation.
Everything old is new again! This is exactly how Jane Austin published Pride and Prejudice. She paid the printer.
Wow you were really struggling so say anything nice weren’t you
I know this book was bought for me as a Christmas gift and I am dying to get my hands on it. This was very interesting! Glad the algorithm suggested you and your page.
Same. My friend bought me it and is hiding it. Every day I'm asking her to please let me see it & she says no. She does have it but it's still in the cardboard packaging it arrived in 😂😂😂
this video is gonna get even more views. also really amazed by ur video, i thought u;d be some 10M channel or something. all the best : )
Has anybody noticed the text of the reputation page in the eras tour book?#reptv😮
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Well Scooter Braun opened the door and now everything has changed..... Lets give her dad some props for insisting that she retained copyright.....!
Loved the video and your delivery. Subscribed!
Yay! Welcome :)
Missed opportunity to say she make 19.89 on the book her way
I look at it more as merchandise than a book
His voice over sounds too mumbling to me.
Selling the book at Target also excludes international buyers as well.
Is it possible to lip sync a book? I'm sure she'd find a way to do that, too.
Good for T. figuring that out & self-publishing using Target to distribute. Marketing - a post from T is enough❤ great she made a memory for us.
I AM POOR .... I HAVE NO MONEY ... CAN I HAVE A COPY OF THEIS BOOK AND A F.
FIRST
I think the next era will be a family and writing a movie, maybe directing and staring
The energy all over the city was so electric!!!
Wow, you really missed her points here. She had great sadness but mostly rage! Rage that she only allows herself to express through art, not life. You don’t get to say to her when she has to be done processing her grief and pain and rage - about childhood, men, career, betrayal. Just because you are uncomfortable listening to a rager doesn’t mean it is poor expression or poor art. You are limited in your ability to empathize with female, simmering, blistering, sugar hot rage. A lot of men try to control women by telling them to just get over it and she shouldn’t feel what she feels or express what she feels. Nobody overcomes global attacks of lying, shaming, blaming, betrayal, fake porn, canceling,etc. easily, quickly or silently. Don’t you get that Taylor went through a type of reputation rape, a mental social rape? Then a betrayal by a “father” for money. Just money, like being sold as a slave. Then whatever happened with two relationships of long standing (no one knows full truth about any of it) that she was hard processing. So go through all that and then say nothing or have people tell you to get over it in a certain length of time. See how you feel. She can write a hundred songs about understanding childhood bullies mixed with KK and YE adult bullies and she’ll always be mining a new face of the bully mountain. You also missed that these songs were mostly written and produced before new relationship and billionaire status. Lastly, if you were offended by 31 songs, then just buy first batch and ignore the second until you’re ready for them. It’s on you, not her that you couldn’t digest it all at once. She didn’t force you to listen to extra album. I obviously love this piece of art. And having lived through hell in my life I so appreciate TSwift’s beautiful, poetical expression. Too verbose! Says a man to a woman expressing pain and rage and overwhelming exhaustion. SMH 🤦♀️
In my personal opinion this is the best quality book I have❤ I love Taylor🫶🫶✨
When billionaires make money from us all... Its easy to be upset about the $. But this lady gives back. Love her soul.
Taylor honestly earns every dime and when you look at how much money people are making off her name (like in publishing)... I can't believe I'm saying this... she's underpaid.
Did i miss something? What's so special in publishing a simple photobook with almost no text? Kpop industry has been doing it for DECADES now, since mid 00s, monetizing literally every step of its artists. So no, swifties, that's bullshit, there's nothing_new_under_the_sun.
The difference is self publishing, those kpop books aren't self-published, there's a whole industry behind it.