OMG, she was clearly refreshing her phone every few seconds waiting for Billboard to publish the article
we'd be preparing a funeral if it didn't go #1
Digital track sales this past week totaled 18.02 million downloads, down 11 percent stacked next to the comparable week of 2013 (20.29 million). Year to date track sales are at 848.49 million, down 13 percent compared to the same total at this point last year (974.6 million).
Digital Songs
2 1 Meghan Trainor "All About That Bass" 253,000 (-10%)
1 2 Taylor Swift "Shake It Off" 224,000 (-24%)
3 3 Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj "Bang Bang" 125,000 (-13%)
5 4 Tove Lo "Habits (Stay High)" 109,000 (+1%)
4 5 Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora "Black Widow" 104,000 (-14%)
-- 6 Jason Aldean "Tonight Looks Good On You" 90,000 --
6 7 Nicki Minaj "Anaconda" 89,000 (-13%)
7 8 Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne "Rather Be" 87,000 (+5%)
9 9 Jason Aldean "Burnin' It Down" 77,000 (-1%)
-- 10 Kendrick Lamar "I" 76,000 --
I haven't seen a comparison for this week in Taylor's base yet, but as of last week I think it still was. SIO's longevity > WANEGBT's. At this point in the Red era, Taylor had already moved on to the promo singles.