After six years of relationship, the pop star is done with Alwyn (as is now well known). However, the breakup also gave the singer joys, as well as pains: the numerous songs dedicated to her ex have in fact recorded an unprecedented boom in listening, as “Rolling Stone” reports in these hours
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As is well known by now, Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn have split. But one thing that some people don’t think about is how in the world of showbiz breakups don’t just leave aftermaths of pain: there are also many joys, above all if the farewell to a boyfriend or a husband involves a notable enrichment.
Let’s not talk about alimony checks, prenuptial agreements and all those multi-zero things that feed on breakups between VIPs: let’s talk about royalties. The end of a marriage or a relationship can pay a lot. This thing is now established later Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions Vol. 53, the single by the Argentine record producer Bizarrap and the Colombian singer Shakira who puts the ex Gerard Piquè in the sedan. And we say “in the sedan” with a double meaning: for the way of saying “to put in the sedan” and for the by now very famous juxtaposition with a famous sedan-car, i.e. the Twingo to which Shakira associates Piquè’s lover, proclaiming herself in I compare a Ferrari.
As for Taylor Swift and the end of the love story with Joe Alwyn, however, there are no infamous songs with which the pop star hits the ex, on the contrary: on the contrary, the songs that the singer-songwriter had recorded a boom in listening dedicated to the ex, complete with a profusion of kisses and love to the nth degree.
After the announcement of the split between the two, Swift’s numerous songs with references to her ex-boyfriend recorded an unprecedented peak in listening, as the magazine reports in these hours Rolling Stone.
The song “Cornelia Street” is the most listened to
“The breakup definitely hit the heart of the swifties who in the last 48 hours – or since the news leaked – have begun to listen obsessively to some of the songs that the American singer has dedicated to her boyfriend in these six years (and five albums) ” it reads on RS. “Spotify data compiled by SpotifySwiftie shows that 11 songs dedicated by Swift to Alwyn have seen a surge in ratings over the past two days. To mark the most noticeable increase was Cornelia Street (from the album Lover of 2019) which saw its ratings increase up to 106%”, continues the magazine considered as the “Bible of rock ‘n’ roll” (and of music in general, including pop, given that we are talking about a pop star and of country and folk).
The song Cornelia Street contains the following lines: “And I hope I never lose you, hope it never ends / I’d never walk Cornelia Street again / that’s the kind of heartbreak time could never mend” I’ll walk Cornelia Street no more / that would be a break time could not mend).
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Taylor Swift is single again. The story with Joe Alwyn would be over
The other songs whose ratings have increased
Other songs have also experienced a significant increase in ratings, for example New Year’s Day (Reputation2017), Peace (folklore2020) and daylight (Lover). These tracks “saw growth of 40, 48 and 58% respectively, while King of My Heart (Reputation), Happiness (Evermore2020), Sweet Nothing (Midnights2022), The 1 (folklore) had an increase in ratings of 23, 23, 30 and 39%”, reports Rolling Stone based on audience data collected by SpotifySwiftie.
