When Taylor Swift surpassed Kim Kardashian last month in terms of number of Instagram followers, the feat was no fluke. It was real as real can be and this month, she proves that her accomplishment was not a short-lived reign but will be good for a long while.
The “Blank Space” singer has just recorded 50 million followers on Instagram, padding her lead over the popular selfie queen and reality TV star Kim Kardashian, who has 48.4 million followers on the photo-sharing social media site as of this month.
Song diva Beyonce Knowles, who used to own the reputation of having the most number of followers on Instagram, is at third spot with 47.5 million followers.
Last month, Taylor Swift narrowly edged Kim Kardashian by 500,000 Instagram followers – 45.5 million to 45 million. Many believe that the advantage will be short-lived because Kim Kardashian will bounce back especially after she gives birth to her second child by Kanye West this coming December.
The cats did it
It turns out that the surge in Instagram followers of Taylor Swift was no fluke. She is indeed getting popular in social media for her own kind of selfie shots that do not show more of her body but of her cats.
Upon reaching 50 million followers on Instagram this week, Taylor Swift posted a message by expressing her gratitude to her followers. But she downplayed it in jest by saying that she was pretty sure that her increasing number of followers on Instagram has something more to do with her having cute cats, details the Daily Mail.
With her immense popularity on Instagram, Taylor Swift’s followers actually account more than the population of Columbia, which is the 28th most populous country in the word with 48.3 million citizens.
She is just 1.4 million followers shy of tying the population of South Korea which has 51.4 million citizens.
Drawing inspiration from the loss
Amid her surging popularity and immense success these days, Taylor Swift also had her fair share of defeat in the past, which she took most of them like any normal girl would – crying her heart out.
The Entertainment Weekly narrates that when Taylor Swift did not win the 2014 Album of the Year award in the Grammys, she actually drowned herself in tears and gorged herself on fast food.
In a past interview Taylor Swift was quoted as saying that she decided not to attend after-parties after her defeat. She recalled going home, crying, and got In-N-Out Burger and ate a lot.
But it was not the end of the world for her because her album “Red” at that time lost to “Random Access Memories” by Daft Punk, which was indeed a very good album.
She already won an Album of the Year award during the 2009 Grammys for her 2008 album “Fearless” but she still cried her heart out when she lost the title five years later. Taylor Swift now has a total of seven Grammy awards.
After sulking over her loss for quite some time, it dawned upon the singer that she could do better. And that’s what she did by drawing inspiration from the loss and took her music in a new direction.
She said that artists do not make music to win a lot of awards, but they also need to take their cues from such if they are going to continue to evolve.
She said that not winning an award gives the artists a few options. They can decide that the decision was wrong and wallow over it or decide to do better and maybe win the award the following year, or just accept the fact that decision was right.
Taylor Swift took the second option and went on to create the “1989” album and now she has put herself in contention for winning the Album of the Year award.