In just 5 weeks, Taylor Swift's album
1989 has sold
3,516,800 copies, trumping Coldplay's
Ghost Stories as the best selling album released in 2014. Here's the whole top 5 in comparison.
1. Taylor Swift -
1989 - 3,516,800
2. Coldplay -
Ghost Stories - ~3,370,700
3. Ed Sheeran -
X - 3,218,100
4. Sam Smith -
In The Lonely Hour - 2,634,800
5. Pharrell Williams -
G I R L - ~2,145,000
*albums with a ~ symbol in their total have not charted within the top 50 for a number of weeks, meaning I had to estimate how much they've sold since dropping out the chart.
Source:
MusiCharts