Taylor Swift's smash album '1989' returns to the top of the World's best-selling Albums Chart for an eighth week after selling another 124.000 copies. Since the start of the Media Traffic Album Chart more than 10 years ago, there were only four albums that remained at number 1 longer including 'Fallen' by Evanescence and 'Life For Rent' by Dido which both reigned for 10 weeks each, the 'Frozen' soundtrack which stayed atop for 11 weeks and Adele's '21' which held the no.1 spot for an incredible 42 weeks.
Taylor Swift's second album 'Fearless' from 2008, sold 8,5 million copies.. '1989' has already moved 6,164,000 copies in just 15 weeks and will most likely outsell its predecessor.
Back to this week's tally, close behind '1989' is 'Shadows In The Night', the 36th studio album from one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Bob Dylan. The LP consists of covers of traditional pop Songs made famous by Frank Sinatra and sold 118.000 copies around the world in its first week.
Canadian jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall has this week's second highest debut, her 12th studio effort 'Wallflower' enters the chart at no.6 with sales of 102.000.
Sam Smith's album 'In The Lonely Hour' remains at no.5 selling another 102.000 copies after his huge Victory at the Grammys last week. Ed Sheeran's 'X' is this week at no.4 with sales of 109.000.
Beck's 'Morning Phase' sold 14.000 copies after taking home the Grammy Award for Album Of The Year.
Bjorck's 'Vulnicara' sold 15,000 copies last week and reaches a total of 85,000 so far; 'Paris' by Zaz sold 11,000 units last week, 499,000 so far; 'Ghost Stories' by Coldplay sold 12,000 units last week and has sold a total of 3,236,000 copies so far; 'Cheek To Cheek' by Tony Bennett & Lady GaGa sold 928,000 copies so far and 'Listen' by David Guetta 762,000.
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