Taylor Swift's '1989' was released very late in October 2014 yet it has sold a massive 5.121.000 copies in only a few weeks, with over 4.600 million of those copies sold in 2014 making Taylor the best-selling Artist of the past year.
But just two weeks prior to the album's release, Industry forecasters had predicted that it would only sell 750,000 copies in its opening week. it actually sold over 600,000 copies the first day of release!! Billboard announced a sales projection of 1.2 million copies for the week, which was then revised to a total in excess of 1.3 million, after 751,000 units were sold in just two days. The album eventually sold 1,287,000 copies during the first week of release in the US. Additional copies were sold for US$0.99 through a Microsoft promotion but were not included in the total due to a Nielsen Soundscan policy of not including sales priced under $3.99!
The album's performance broke Swift's own personal sales record, and became the 19th album to sell over one million copies in a single week since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. It was the seventh highest sales week in history, and the highest sales week since 2002, when Eminem's The Eminem Show sold 1.3 million units. Swift also became the first artist to release three albums that sold one million or more copies within a single week. Upon release, '1989' became the best-selling album in the U.S. in 2014, surpassing Coldplay's Ghost Stories (745,000 copies), but ranked below the Frozen soundtrack. The album remained in the top spot of the Billboard 200 during the second and third week of release, selling over two million copies in total. In its fourth week, the album was replaced by One Direction's Four, but returned to number one again for the fourth time in its fifth week. The album went on to sell 200,000 or more copies in the US in each of the 10 successive weeks after its release. It has sold over 3,660,000 copies, becoming the best-selling album in America this past year outselling Frozen!
By the end of the first week of January 2015, 1989 had topped the chart for eight non-consecutive weeks, establishing Swift as the female artist with the second-highest number of total weeks with 33 weeks in the number-one Billboard position for all of her albums, while Whitney Houston's record total of 46 weeks at number one remains intact.In Canada, the album debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums chart, selling 107,000 copies In its second week, the album remained at number one with sales of 37,000, bringing its two week sales total to 144,000 copies.In the UK, 1989 sold 90,000 in its first week and debuted at number one on the UK Albums chart. It became her second number-one album in the UK, following Red (2012), and was the fastest-selling female solo album in 2014.
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