How Taylor Swift reclaimed her past to win 2021
LOS ANGELES — In 2012, before streaming overtook downloads and physical media as the music industry's dominant format, the year's two biggest-selling albums were Adele's "21" followed by Taylor Swift's "Red." As 2021 draws to a close nearly a decade later, this year's biggest sellers — those records that inspired fans to buy a CD or LP or to find someplace where you can still pay to download rather than stream — are almost certain to be Adele's latest, "30," followed by … Taylor Swift's "Red."
By now you know how "Red" reentered the picture: Outraged by the 2019 sale of her old label
