I Prevail’s Taylor Swift Cover Has Gone Platinum

It’s been almost five years since I Prevail’s cover of Taylor Swift’s Blank Space helped the Michigan metalcore outfit make a name for themselves. First released in December 2014, and then again on the re-release of Pop Goes Punk Vol. 6 the following year, their cover of the pop song has now been certified as Platinum. While that means something slightly different in the streaming age than it used to, it still signifies sales of over one million units — with every 150 audio and/or video streams counting as one unit. While Blank Space is, by far, the band’s most successful song, their own material has fared well commercially, too. Their second album Trauma, which was released back in March this year, hit the number 14 spot on the U.S. album charts and number 6 ...

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