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Click and Collect review: Stephen Merchant and Asim Chaudhry delight in Christmas crowd-pleaser

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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Jingle All The Way receives a modern, distinctly British retelling in BBC’s Click & Collect, which overcomes its clear influences through charming performances.

The premise of Click & Collect is classic Christmas fodder. Two mismatched neighbours Andrew and Dev, played by Stephen Merchant and People Just Do Nothing’s Asim Chaudhry, are banded together on Christmas Eve in pursuit of the hot Christmas item of the season –namely a ‘plastic unicorn’.

After Andrew refuses to pay a hiked-up price to collect his reserved ‘Sparklehoof’, Dev manages to secure another online in a gesture of neighbourly goodwill. The one problem? The store is a four hour drive away in Carlisle. After some comical wrangling, the only solution is for the pair to put aside their differences for a road trip to save his daughter’s Christmas.

From there, it’s pretty obvious how events will pan out – but Click & Collect does an admirable job of keeping the journey to the destination surprising. Mishaps escalate from getting trapped in floods out in the woods to barrelling down roads in transport buggies, which are sold by convincing, likeable performances from both Merchant and Chaudhry.

While the show skips along with infectious enthusiasm, there’s surprising moments where the tone takes a serious turn. As the chase for the prized unicorn morphs into a cat-and-mouse hunt for a service station worker, they find their thief is similarly hoping to bring a smile to her daughter’s face after suffering in hospital. It’s unexpected and strikes a welcome, poignant note between the light-hearted comedy.

It’s clear the main duo are having a ball too. Merchant dials up his aggravated disgruntled middle-aged man routine to a fine art, dropping Brexit jokes and cynical cut-downs to extort laughs from the token Grinch. Chaudhry, meanwhile, takes the natural course from irritatingly vibrant neighbour to having a sympathetic, misunderstood circumstances for his enthusiasm.

The show culminates by delivering arguably the best reason The One Show has ever had to exist. Beyond the hilarious post-credits sequence, however, Click & Collect is comforting, sharply written Christmas TV which is the perfect way to ease into festivities. Make sure you reserve your seat.

Click & Collect airs Christmas Eve BBC One at 9pm.

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2018 Directed by Ben Palmer

To save his daughter's Christmas, Andrew goes on a road trip with Dev, his neighbour from hell, to buy an elusive Sparklehoof the Unicorn Princess.

Asim Chaudhry Stephen Merchant Sophia di Martino Sophie Willan Darcey Ewart Emily Aston Tala Gouveia Daniel Hoffmann-Gill Alex Jones Matt Baker Jason Barnett Grant McIntyre Steven Wickham Lloyd Woolf

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Review by Sam ★★★★ 3

The Sparklehoof was a shit toy but I respect the hustle.

Review by alex ★★★

seriously though how the FUCK was that unicorn worth £65

Review by 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔴 ★★★ 1

Tbf I would do the same to get an IKEA Djungelskög bear

Review by amelie ☆ ★★★★★

but you don’t get it it’s the LAST one in the UK, and it’s ALLLLLL the way in CARLISLE. and they’ve come from Bedford!!!

Review by eleanor <3 ★★★

imagine she prefered the chemistry set after all of that

Review by kieran ★½ 5

eyes that pop out of their head... steve

Review by EccyReviews ★★★ 2

I had a an hour spare till, im a celebrity get me out of here was on

Review by Paul Fleming ★★★★

"It was a little bit like that Arnold Schwarzenegger film."

"Jingle All The Way?"

"No, Terminator 2."

BBC 1's big 9pm comedy for Christmas Eve got the spirit of Christmas just right. I caught the end of it the night before Christmas and decided to catch up with it two weeks later. Even two weeks out of season there were a couple of beats in this that brought a genuine tear to my eye. I like Christmas, ok!

Clearly a mix of Jingle All The Way and Planes, Trains and Automobiles but it doesn't matter as it is carried brilliantly by two of the UK's best comic talents in Stephen Merchant and Asim Chaudhry. The two make a brilliant modern…

Review by Louis ★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Very cliché and safe Christmas comedy. Did laugh at a couple parts 

But more importantly: 

Why didn’t the burger place lady just get the unicorn from the claw machine at her work? Probably easier than committing credit card fraud and driving to Carlisle.

Review by Lauren ★★★★½ 1

imma have to watch this again in like 2 years when i’ve forgotten all the jokes and can laugh just as much as i just did 

a new british classic imo

Review by kristina ★★★½

never have I related to something more than the claw machine montage

Review by Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸 ★★★½ 2

"Brown Santa's gonna save Christmas!"

Although clearly a blatant mix of Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Jingle All The Way (the latter is even referenced in the closing credits sequence; a funny exchange that sees the characters being interviewed by The One Show's Matt Baker and Alex Jones) this chalk-and-cheese, road trip from hell, Christmas miracle comedy is a welcome one, boosted by the sheer charm and comic chops of its leading men, Stephen Merchant and Asim Chaudhry.

A fun watch for Christmas Eve.

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Click And Collect – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Merchant

Instead of Arnie tracking down the last Turbo Man, Stephen Merchant is looking for the last Sparklehoof the Unicorn Princess. As it began, I was expecting that, like King Gary, it was going to be more Christmas TV filler which would make you suddenly remember that you’d rather cut your toenails.

There is a good bit, but that’s only really with the opening altercation in a local store where Andrew (Merchant) gets the chance to buy the unicorn toy, but he objects to the fact they’ve hiked the price by £20 just because of the time of year.

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Annoying neighbour Dev ( Asim Chaudhry , from the unfunny People Just No Nothing ) whacks up a ton of lights all over Andrew’s house without his permission, and circumstances lead to Andrew having no choice but to spend nine hours in a car with Dev to capture the final Sparklehoof.

Merchant is, surprisingly, not the most irritating thing about this and, at times, isn’t too bad. Alas, like his character Dev, Chaudhry IS the most irritating thing, especially since he talks too much along the journey where everything that can go wrong DOES go wrong. Plus, a lot of the situations that happen are ones we’ve seen before, and it all gets mixed up in a syrupy-sweet Christmassy message… making this a mix of Jingle All The Way and… Planes, Trains and Automobiles .

So, this could’ve been better without the schmaltz. And with some originality.

Click And Collect is not coming out on Blu-ray or DVD at this point, but you can watch it on the BBC iPlayer for 30 days after transmission.

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Andrew: Stephen Merchant Dev: Asim Chaudhry Claire: Sophia Di Martino Burger Bar Worker: Emily Aston Nearby Man: Jason Barnett Toy Shop Assistant: Tala Gouveia Maintenance Man: Daniel Hoffman-Gill Superstore Assistant: Grant McIntyre Homeless Man: Steven Wickham Jessie: Sophie Willan Man at Table: Lloyd Woolf Emily: Darcey Ewart Herself: Alex Jones Himself: Matt Baker

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Stephen Merchant and Asim Chaudhry star in this moving comedy. Two sparring neighbours drive across the UK to pick up a toy that will make a child's Christmas dreams come true.

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As a form of web analytics, clickstream data focuses on tracking and analysing a user’s online activity. These digital breadcrumbs offer insights into the websites the user has visited, the pages they viewed, how much time they spent on a page, and where they went next.

Your clickstream pipeline can be viewed as a “roadmap” that can help you recognise consistent patterns in how users navigate your website. 

With that said, you won’t be able to learn much by analysing clickstream data collected from one user’s session. However, a proper analysis of large clickstream datasets can provide a wealth of information about consumers’ online behaviours and trends — which marketing teams can use to make informed decisions and optimise their digital marketing strategy. 

Clickstream data collection can serve numerous purposes, but the main goal remains the same — gaining valuable insights into visitors’ behaviours and online activities to deliver a better user experience and improve conversion likelihood. 

Depending on the specific events you’re tracking, clickstream data can reveal the following: 

• How visitors reach your website 
• The terms they type into the search engine
• The first page they land on
• The most popular pages and sections of your website
• The amount of time they spend on a page 
• Which elements of the page they interact with, and in what sequence
• The click path they take 
• When they convert, cancel, or abandon their cart
• Where the user goes once they leave your website

As you can tell, once you start collecting this type of data, you’ll learn quite a bit about the user’s online journey and the different ways they engage with your website — all without including any personal details about your visitors.

Types of clickstream data 

While all clickstream data keeps a record of the interactions that occur while the user is navigating a website or a mobile application — or any other digital platform — it can be divided into two types: 

• Aggregated (web traffic) data provides comprehensive insights into the total number of visits and user interactions on a digital platform — such as your website — within a given timeframe 
• Unaggregated data is broken up into smaller segments, focusing on an individual user’s online behaviour and website interactions 

One thing to remember is that to gain valuable insights into user behaviour and uncover sequential patterns, you need a powerful tool and access to full clickstream datasets. Matomo’s Event Tracking can provide a comprehensive view of user interactions on your website or mobile app — everything from clicking a button and completing a form to adding (or removing) products from their cart. 

On that note, based on the specific events you’re tracking when a user visits your website, clickstream data can include: 

• Web navigation data: referring URL, visited pages, click path, and exit page
• User interaction data: mouse movements, click rate, scroll depth, and button clicks
• Conversion data: form submissions, sign-ups, and transactions 
• Temporal data: page load time, timestamps, and the date and time of day of the user’s last login 
• Session data: duration, start, and end times and number of pages viewed per session
• Error data: 404 errors and network or server response issues 

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Clickstream data benefits and use cases 

Given the actionable insights that clickstream data collection provides, it can serve a wide range of use cases — from identifying behavioural patterns and trends and examining competitors’ performance to helping marketing teams map out customer journeys and improve ROI.

According to the global Clickstream Analytics Market Report 2024 , some key applications of clickstream analytics include click-path optimisation, website and app optimisation, customer analysis, basket analysis, personalisation, and traffic analysis. 

The behavioural patterns and user preferences revealed by clickstream analytics data can have many applications — we’ve outlined the prominent use cases below. 

Customer journey mapping 

Clickstream data allows you to analyse the e-commerce customer’s online journey and provides insights into how they navigate your website. With such a comprehensive view of their click path, it becomes easier to understand user behaviour at each stage — from initial awareness to conversion — identify the most effective touchpoints and fine-tune that journey to improve their conversion likelihood. 

Identifying customer trends 

Clickstream data analytics can also help you identify trends and behavioural patterns — the most common sequences and similarities in how users reached your website and interacted with it — especially when you can access data from many website visitors. 

Think about it — there are many ways in which you can use these insights into the sequence of clicks and interactions and recurring patterns to your team’s advantage. 

Here’s an example: 

It can reveal that some pieces of content and CTAs are performing well in encouraging visitors to take action — which shows how you should optimise other pages and what you should strive to create in the future, too. 

Preventing site abandonment 

Cart abandonment remains a serious issue for online retailers: 

According to a recent report, the global cart abandonment rate in the fourth quarter of 2023 was at 83%. 

That means that roughly eight out of ten e-commerce customers will abandon their shopping carts — most commonly due to additional costs, slow website loading times and the requirement to create an account before purchasing. 

In addition to cart abandonment predictions, clickstream data analytics can reveal the pages where most visitors tend to leave your website. These drop-off points are clear indicators that something’s not working as it should — and once you can pinpoint them, you’ll be able to address the issue and increase conversion likelihood.

Improving marketing campaign ROI 

As previously mentioned, clickstream data analysis provides insights into the customer journey. Still, you may not realise that you can also use this data to keep track of your marketing effectiveness . 

Global digital ad spending continues to grow — and is expected to reach $836 billion by 2026 . It’s easy to see why relying on accurate data is crucial when deciding which marketing channels to invest in. 

You want to ensure you’re allocating your digital marketing and advertising budget to the channels — be it SEO, pay-per-click (PPC) ads, or social media campaigns — that impact driving conversions.  

When you combine clickstream e-commerce data with conversion rates, you’ll find the latter in Matomo’s goal reports and have a solid, data-driven foundation for making better marketing decisions.

Delivering a better user experience (UX) 

Clickstream data analysis allows you to identify specific “pain points” — areas of the website that are difficult to use and may cause customer frustration. 

It’s clear how this would be beneficial to your business: 

Once you’ve identified these pain points, you can make the necessary changes to your website’s layout and address any technical issues that users might face, improving usability and delivering a smoother experience to potential customers. 

Collecting clickstream data: Tools and legal implications 

Your team will need a powerful tool capable of handling clickstream analytics to reap the benefits we’ve discussed previously. But at the same time, you need to respect users’ online privacy throughout clickstream data collection.

Generally speaking, there are two ways to collect data about users’ online activity — web analytics tools and server log files.

Web analytics tools are the more commonly used solution. Specifically designed to collect and analyse website data, these tools rely on JavaScript tags that run in the browser, providing actionable insights about user behaviour. Server log files can be a gold mine of data, too — but that data is raw and unfiltered, making it much more challenging to interpret and analyse. 

That brings us to one of the major clickstream challenges to keep in mind as you move forward — compliance.

While Google remains a dominant player in the web analytics market, there’s one area where Matomo has a significant advantage — user privacy. 

Matomo operates according to privacy laws — including the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) and California Consumer Privacy Act ( CCPA ), making it an ethical alternative to Google Analytics. 

It should go without saying, but compliance with data privacy laws — the most talked-about one being the GDPR framework introduced by the EU — isn’t something you can afford to overlook. 

The GDPR was first implemented in the EU in 2018. Since then, several fines have been issued for non-compliance — including the record fine of €1.2 billion that Meta Platforms, Inc. received in 2023 for transferring personal data of EU-based users to the US.

Clickstream analytics data best practices 

As valuable as it might be, processing large amounts of clickstream analytics data can be a complex — and, at times, overwhelming — process. 

Here are some best practices to keep in mind when it comes to clickstream analysis: 

Define your goals 

It’s essential to take the time to define your goals and objectives. 

Once you have a clear idea of what you want to learn from a given clickstream dataset and the outcomes you hope to see, it’ll be easier to narrow down your scope — rather than trying to tackle everything at once — before moving further down the clickstream pipeline. 

Here are a few examples of goals and objectives you can set for clickstream analysis: 

• Understanding and predicting users’ behavioural patterns 
• Optimising marketing campaigns and ROI 
• Attributing conversions to specific marketing touchpoints and channels

Analyse your data 

Collecting clickstream analytics data is only part of the equation; what you do with raw data and how you analyse it matters. You can have the most comprehensive dataset at your disposal — but it’ll be practically worthless if you don’t have the skill set to analyse and interpret it. 

In short, this is the stage of your clickstream pipeline where you uncover common sequences and consistent patterns in user behaviour. 

Clickstream data analytics can extract actionable insights from large datasets using various approaches, models, and techniques. 

Here are a few examples: 

• If you’re working with clickstream e-commerce data, you should perform funnel or conversion analyses to track conversion rates as users move through your sales funnel. 
• If you want to group and analyse users based on shared characteristics, you can use Matomo for cohort analysis . 
• If your goal is to predict future trends and outcomes — conversion and cart abandonment prediction, for example — based on available data, prioritise predictive analytics.

Organise and visualise your data

As you reach the end of your clickstream pipeline, you need to start thinking about how you will present and communicate your data. And what better way to do that than to transform that data into easy-to-understand visualisations? 

Here are a few examples of easily digestible formats that facilitate quick decision-making: 

• User journey maps, which illustrate the exact sequence of interactions and user flow through your website 
• Heatmaps , which serve as graphical — and typically colour-coded — representations of a website visitor’s activity 
• Funnel analysis , which are broader at the top but get increasingly narrower towards the bottom as users flow through and drop off at different stages of the pipeline 

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Clickstream data is hard to beat when tracking the website visitor’s journey — from first to last interaction — and understanding user behaviour. By providing real-time insights, your clickstream pipeline can help you see the big picture, stay ahead of the curve and make informed decisions about your marketing efforts. 

Matomo accurate data and compliance with GDPR and other data privacy regulations — it’s an all-in-one, ethical platform that can meet all your web analytics needs. That’s why over 1 million websites use Matomo for their web analytics.

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Two 11-year-old boys navigate school, friendship, family and change in Minhal Baig’s lyrical drama “We Grown Now.” It’s an evocative memory piece, wistful and honest, and a different kind of portrait of a very infamous place: Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing development.

And, pointedly, it’s a film that might not have existed without Participant, the activist film and television studio that just this month announced it was shutting down operations .

Baig sets her film in the fall of 1992, a moment in which the promise of the 1940s urban renewal project had curdled beyond repair. It was there, on Oct. 13 of that year, that 7-year-old Dantrell Davis was killed by a sniper while walking to elementary school with his mother. A few days later, the horror film “Candyman” opened across the country with its Black boogeyman and white heroine, inspiring pointed critiques for its regressive racial stereotypes.

No longer the place of “Good Times,” Cabrini-Green had become a metonym for the failures of the system. A few years later, authorities would begin demolishing buildings there, the last of which came down in 2011. It’s now home to luxury apartments.

But childhood is childhood for Malik (Blake Cameron Jones) and Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez). And the biggest thing on their mind at the beginning is transporting a found mattress down the stairs of the high rise, through the streets and sidewalks to their playground area where it will provide the perfect landing cushion for their favorite activity: Jumping.

Malik lives with his sister, mother Dolores (Jurnee Smollett, in a lovely performance) and grandmother (S. Epatha Merkerson). The adults are stable, calm and positive influences on the lives of the kids, keeping them safe in their little enclave. Still, realities of their small world inside Cabrini-Green do occasionally creep in (or, rather, sometimes burst in at 2 a.m., when authorities decide to raid and trash their apartment looking for drugs that aren’t there). Dolores tries to protest and stick up for their rights but is painfully aware of her powerlessness over the ever-escalating hostilities towards them.

The death of a classmate sends everyone into a spiral. Voices from the outside suddenly emerge, from Chicago’s mayor Richard M. Daley and others vowing to clean up Cabrini-Green. There is a pointed disconnect with what Malik and Eric’s day-to-day is actually like, playing, jumping, teasing little sisters and sometimes escaping the dull nature documentary at their school to have a real adventure. Some of these moments land, especially the banter between the boys, but some are a little clunkier. These are the ones that lean more into whimsical ideas of play and inspiration (like when they decide to visit the Art Institute on their own and have a Ferris Bueller moment with the Seurat painting) than an authentic portrait of childhood. But also, why not show the kids being self-motivated to talk about art?

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Artists across pop genres are finding success with colored vinyl and different variants of their releases. For Swifties, the urge to collect them all is strong.

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When Taylor Swift released nine vinyl editions of her album “Folklore” in 2020, Tylor Hammers, a fan in Florida, took notice. But it wasn’t until “Midnights” two years later that he became a true collector, scouring the internet and retail shops for every variation of her albums he could find — spending about $1,000 in the process — and cataloging the technicolor expanse of Swift’s LP output in an online discography .

“I get enjoyment out of being a completionist,” Hammers, 24, said in a recent interview.

He’s not the only one.

Although streaming remains the dominant music format, physical media has been a growing niche where the industry can cater to so-called superfans , who express their dedication to artists by shelling out big bucks for collectible versions of new releases, sometimes in multiple quantities. K-pop acts like BTS pioneered this strategy by putting out an array of elaborate CD packages, often featuring goodies like postcards and photo booklets, which helped the boy band repeatedly go to No. 1.

But nobody does it quite like Swift, or at least at the same scale. Last year she sold 3.5 million LPs in the United States, thanks in part to five pastel-hued variants of “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” a rerecording of her 2014 album, and the popularity of Swift’s entire catalog during her record-breaking Eras Tour .

When Swift’s latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” comes out on Friday, it will be available in a portfolio of different versions — on vinyl, CD and even cassette — with bonus tracks and, on certain “deluxe” editions sold through Swift’s website, trinkets like magnets, photo cards and engraved bookmarks. Some items, like a standard CD, go for as little as $13. But last weekend, Swift’s site offered a limited run of autographed LPs for $50, which, according to fans on social media, vanished in 20 minutes.

“Vinyl collecting fits so well into Taylor’s fandom,” Hammers said, “because we’ve always collected Taylor-related things like clothing, general merchandise, CDs and even confetti.”

It is a global phenomenon, driven in part by the far greater revenues that artists can earn from physical products in the age of streaming, when per-click royalties are infinitesimal. Of the 10 most popular albums around the world last year, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, two were by Swift and five were by K-pop acts. Vinyl collecting also spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic, exacerbating supply-chain problems and resulting in monthslong delays , though wait times have since lessened.

Swift, 34, has long understood the role that collectible items can play in building fan connections. A decade ago, when the original “1989” album went on sale, she reposted images of fans displaying the CDs they bought in shops. For “Lover” in 2019, Swift sold four CD editions that came with booklets featuring excerpts from her journal entries .

For “Midnights,” a total of 35 physical products, each with its own UPC code, were sold in the United States, according to Luminate, which supplies the data for Billboard’s charts. Some of those were essentially duplicates, like 10 boxed sets containing a CD and a tee, categorized by the size of the shirts. But the list of “Midnights” products also includes CDs and vinyl LPs with varying disc colors and cover art, plus editions with bonus tracks, autographed photos and edited lyrics, along with a CD that was initially sold only at her live shows.

Most ingeniously, a sequence of numbers on the back covers of the four standard “Midnights” LPs, when arranged in a grid, formed the hours of a clock. For $49, Swift’s site also sold shelves and a working timepiece to go with them. In its opening week, “Midnights” sold 1.1 million copies as a complete package, the first time any album had crossed the million mark in pure sales since Swift’s own “Reputation,” five years earlier.

As of last week, “Midnights” has had the equivalent of 7.1 million album sales in the United States, with streaming making up about 58 percent of that total, according to Luminate. But about 2.5 million copies — 35 percent of the album’s total consumption — were sold on physical media. The most popular version, with nearly 460,000 sales, was the “lavender” CD, with three extra tracks, sold at Target stores. (That figure does not represent all of Target’s sales of the album.) The lone cassette version, issued in “moonstone blue,” sold 17,000 copies and is now being offered for upward of $100 on resale sites like eBay and Discogs.

In recent years, collectible packaging, particularly in the form of multicolored vinyl, has become de rigueur for virtually any major artist hoping for a No. 1 debut, from Olivia Rodrigo and Beyoncé to Harry Styles and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. In a streaming-dominated era, when digital music offers nothing tangible for fans to display as a totem, a rainbow of vinyl variants is one draw for fans; versions with extra tracks, sold through exclusive deals with Target, Walmart or indie shops, are another.

Dan Runcie, who analyzes the music industry on his podcast and newsletter Trapital , sees the phenomenon as partly a matter of artists and record companies catching up to the merchandising of sports.

“The music industry is trying to figure out how to maximize superfans and give them more of what they want,” Runcie said. “Some are willing to pay to have more variants on the wall. It’s no different from sports fans paying up to have rookie cards.”

But it has also brought waves of dissenting backlash, with accusations that artists are exploiting fans’ loyalty — some anonymous Swifties balked last year about the “1989” remake versions being a “ shameless cash grab ” — and about the environmental impact of all that duplicate packaging.

Billie Eilish will release her next album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” due May 17, on eight vinyl variants — though she has said they will all be made with recycled materials.

Last month, before her album announcement, Eilish briefly caused a minor fracas when she said in an interview with Billboard that it was “ wasteful ” for artists to release “40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more.” Swift fans interpreted that comment as directed at their idol; Eilish then clarified on social media, “I wasn’t singling anyone out, these are industry-wide systemic issues.”

Hammers, who collects records by Lana Del Rey as avidly as he does Swift’s, said he didn’t agree that an artist releasing multiple vinyl editions exploited fans’ loyalty. Fans aren’t forced to buy anything, he said, and he appreciated artists who put care into their product.

“At the end of the day, they’re all trying to sell their music,” he said, “and it’s one way to sell it.”

Ben Sisario covers the music industry. He has been writing for The Times since 1998. More about Ben Sisario

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