The world's biggest pop star (who has a Twitter following of more than 48 million) has broken records since, with her album selling nearly 1.3 million copies during its first week — the biggest single-week number in 12 years — at a time when record sales are in dizzying free fall. Swift, 25, also became the first female artist to have back-to-back No. 1 singles on Billboard's Hot 100 ("Shake It Off" and "Blank Space"). And her risky decision not to stream 1989 on the world's fastest-growing service, Spotify, magnified the debate over fair royalties during the digital age.
"I didn't think that it would be shocking to anyone," says Swift. "With as many ways as artists are personalizing their musical distribution, it didn't occur to me that this would be anything that anyone would talk about. But I could never have expected so many text messages, emails and phone calls from other artists, writers and producers saying thank you."
I hope we get an exact # for 1989. Jason Aldean also sold 278k (,096) in his first week so it's not clear if She's above him or not as far as the top selling weeks of the year go.
the instrumental itself is just 
UMG ain't messing around.
Everyone's so certain it'll go Number #1 that I feel like it'll underperform. I hope I'm wrong though 