Chart Listings: Billboard Charts (December 24-31, 2014)

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Taylor Swift Back at No. 1 on Billboard 200, Nicki Minaj Debuts at No. 2

Taylor Swift makes an expected return to the top of the Billboard 200 chart, as her 1989 album hops up one rung, bringing its total (nonconsecutive) weeks atop the list to six.

The set shifted 375,000 equivalent units in the week ending Dec. 21 (up 16 percent), according to Nielsen Music.

Swift also leads the Top Album Sales chart, where the set sold 331,000 copies (up 19 percent). With one week remaining in Nielsen Music’s tracking year, 1989 has now sold 3.36 million and is on the verge of overtaking the Frozen soundtrack as 2014’s top selling album. The latter has sold 3.46 million this year.

The Pinkprint launches with 244,000 units, with pure album sales representing 194,000 copies of that total.

Notably, Minaj’s new album is No. 2 on the Billboard 200, but No. 3 on the Top Album Sales chart, as it was surpassed in pure album sales by Pentatonix’s holiday set That’s Christmas To Me.

D’Angelo and The Vanguard’s Black Messiah takes a bow at No. 5 with 117,000 units (a sum greatly powered by album sales 111,000).

Taylor Swift Tops Hot 100 for Sixth Week

Digital Songs
1. "Uptown Funk!" (+2) [288,000]
2. "Take Me To Church" (=) [244,000]
3. "Blank Space" (-2) [228,000]
4. "Thinking Out Loud" (=) [214,000]
5. x
6. "Lips Are Movin'" (-1) [152,000]

Hot 100

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Princedele21

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Taylor Swift Back at No. 1 on Billboard 200, Nicki Minaj Debuts at No. 2

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The Pinkprint launches with 244,000 units, with pure album sales representing 194,000 copies of that total. The album sold better than anticipated compared to sales forecasts made shortly after it was released.

Not bad.

Diar7

Queen of Rap

CristianGsix

YAS NICKI!!

Dämon

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The Pinkprint launches with 244,000 units, with pure album sales representing 194,000 copies of that total.

Diar7

Selling as much as most of the pop girls

(even in this state of sales climate, plus with no Starships-sized hit)

Jeiboy

D angelo tho

Lein

D'Angelo at 117k

beherebynow

Congrats Taylor

Only 100K difference between 1989 and Frozen

She better pull through

Coklek92

I'm gonna cut some throats if somebody drags Nicki again

ForeverNow90

Queen of Rap

Stark

Taylor

Congrats Nicki too

atishvaze

The gap is only 100K between 1989 and Frozen.

Coklek92

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Originally posted by beherebynow

Congrats Taylor

Only 100K difference between 1989 and Frozen

She better pull through

She's gonna win tbh. Another 300k this week more than enough to outlast Frozen

RomanNavy

Yas Onika

OnlyManInTheWorld

Taylor better snatch Elza's wig.

Letícia L.

Taylor

beherebynow

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Originally posted by Coklek92

She's gonna win tbh. Another 300k this week more than enough to outlast Frozen

She better block Frozen

eddytws

Can they stop using that photo of Taylor?

beherebynow

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