After the release of her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, Swift has broken records with her biggest sales week ever: 2.7 million sales in the first 24 hours alone. Are you reading what I'm writing? This feat also marks the second-largest sales week for any album since 1991, when modern chart methodology began. Only has surpassed that number, selling 3.378 million copies in its first week in 2015. And again, Swift's numbers are based on one single day of sales.
Jack Conte hates the word "influencers." As the CEO of Patreon, he would rather people call artists "creators" if what they do is build loyal fanbases willing to pay for what they do online. While platforms like TikTok encourage their power users to sell doodads on the TikTok Shop, Patreon wants people to buy into the platform's stars. To pay a few bucks a month to read what they write or listen to what they have to say.