SWIFT'S PERFECT STORM: The impending Frankenstorm on the East Coast apparently has had little effect on weekend music buyers as early retail reports have Taylor Swift's monster new album Red exceeding our midweek 1.1-1.2 million projections at several key accounts. In addition, Swift will set the record for largest, non-99-cent-sale-priced digital album, besting the 420k digital first week most recently set by Mumford & Sons' Babel. Only Lady Gaga's Born This Way has sold more digital albums in the first week of release, though two-thirds of its 660k+ came from Amazon's game-changing 99-cent sale. (10/29a)
Swift will set the record for largest, non-99-cent-sale-priced digital album
And I remember everyone was saying that this info will be forgotten by the end of 2011.
But everyone still brings it up all the time. The asterisk will never go away.
