1989 is the best-selling Album of 2015 as of September 30, 2015 with a total of 3,568,000 copies sold globally so far this year. Its the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on October 27, 2014, through Big Machine Records. The album's title was inspired by the pop-music scene of the 1980s, particularly Swift's birth year. The album represents a sonic departure from the country music of her previous albums, and is described by Swift as her "first documented official pop album." Five singles have been released from the set: "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood" reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, while "Style" and "Wildest Dreams" peaked at number six.
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. The Album remained at the top spot of the Billboard 200 during the second and third week of release, surpassing two million copies sold. 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 sold 200,000 or more copies in each of the 10 successive weeks after release, a feat last achieved by Usher's Confessions in 2004. 1989 eventually sold over 3,660,000 copies in 2014 and was the best-selling album in the U.S. that year, ahead of Coldplay's Ghost Stories (745,000 copies).
During the week ending January 18, 2015, the album sales surpassed four million copies. 1989 is the first album to sell four million copies in the U.S. since the week ending February 23, 2014, when Red crossed the four-million mark. By early February 2015, in its 15th week of release, 1989 topped the U.S. chart for eleven non-consecutive weeks, establishing Swift as the female artist with the second-highest number of total weeks, with 35 weeks, in the number-one Billboard position for all of her albums—Whitney Houston's record total of 46 weeks at number one remained intact. It spent a total of 24 consecutive weeks inside the top five of the Billboard 200, making it one of the nine albums to spend their first 24 weeks in the top five since 1963. On March 13, 2015, Billboard announced that 1989 had outsold both of her previous two albums in the U.S. after 19 weeks of release.
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. It went on to become Canada's best-selling album of the year, having sold 314,000 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. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry the Album sold 6 million copies worldwide in 2014.
BEST SELLING ALBUMS OF 2015
last interim balance 2015 (January 1 - September 30)
1. “1989” Taylor Swift – 3,568,000 sales
2. “X” Ed Sheeran – 3,291,000 sales
3. “In The Lonely Hour” Sam Smith – 2,822,000 sales
4. “50 Shades Of Grey” OST – 1,908,000 sales
5. “Title” Meghan Trainor – 1,542,000 sales
6. “If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late” Drake – 1,352,000 sales
7. "Hozier" Hozier - 1,281,000 sales
8. “Frozen” OST – 1,170,000 sales
9. “Rock Or Bust” AC/DC – 1,164,000 sales
10. "Wilder Mind" Mumford & Sons - 1,146,000 sales
11. “V” Maroon 5 – 1,074,000 sales
12. "To Pimp A Butterfly" Kendrick Lamar - 1,056,000 sales
13. “Guardians Of The Galaxy” OST – 1,030,000 sales
14. "Exodus" Exo - 950,000 sales
15. “Smoke+Mirrors” Imagine Dragons – 949,000 sales
16. “American Beauty/American Psycho” Fall Out Boy – 893,000 sales
17. “Four” One Direction – 887,000 sales
18. "Furios 7" Soundtrack - 877,000 sales
19. "Drones" Muse - 873,000 sales
20. “Planet Seven” Sandaime J Soul Brothers – 842,000 sales
21. “1000 Forms of Fear” Sia – 835,000 sales
22. “Wanted On Voyage” George Ezra – 826,000 sales
23. “Koko Ga Rhodes Da, Koko De Tobe!” AKB 48 – 810,000 sales
24. "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful" Florence + The Machine - 805,000 sales
25. "Rebel Heart" Madonna - 799,000 sales
26. "Compton" Dr. Dre - 759,000 sales
27. "The Best! Watashi No Dorikamu" Dreams Come True - 738,000 sales
28. "Chaos And The Calm" James Bay - 718,000 sales
29. “Listen” David Guetta – 714,000 sales
30. "Stages" Josh Groban - 713,000 sales
31. “The Pinkprint” Nicki Minaj – 678,000 sales
32. "Beauty Behind The Madness" The Weeknd - 674,000 sales
33. “2014 Forest Hills Drive” J.Cole – 640,000 sales
34. “The Endless River” Pink Floyd – 639,000 sales
35. "Montevallo" Sam Hunt - 614,000 sales
36. "Kill The Lights" Luke Bryan - 613,000 sales
37. "Jekyll + Hyde" Zac Brown Band - 609,000 sales
38. "Tracker" Mark Knopfler - 593,000 sales
39. “My Everything” Ariana Grande – 592,000 sales
40. "Chambre 12" Louane - 579.000 sales
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