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Fan Base: Archived: Taylor Swift (#3)
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Originally posted by Ash12345
red first week of jan US
3. TAYLOR SWIFT – RED 68,733 241,202 3,175,982
1989 first week of jan
112K++++, 3.75m+++
and the gap keeps growing
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600K difference already, wow
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Originally posted by Ash12345
It won't actually happen tho...
They're just predicting
Remember when we thought red would destroy fearless because of 2012, and it's still like 3m behind
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I know... 
They predicted 3.6-3.9M for 1989 in 2014, i thought it was too high but they were right
I still think she will be around 5M by the end of the year tho
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This Love is so underrated. Like I know it is slow, and maybe the first time or two it comes off as boring or whatever. But every single time it comes on and I listen to it through headphones I get chills.
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Originally posted by BlackStar_93
Swifities, I've just been going through Tumblr and seen someone mentioned 22's "original bridge" 
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It was in the Red ZinePak CD from Wal Mart
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France
10. 1989
87. 1989
omg 
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Member Since: 6/30/2012
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Originally posted by WonderstruckFR
France
10. 1989
87. 1989
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She's actually slaying. This is crazy. Her most global album yet.
It's already at 1.5m international sales right?
Hope it can do 4m in the long run. (Would smash fearless 3m)
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Originally posted by WonderstruckFR
France
10. 1989
87. 1989
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Do you know why this is happening?
Is Shake it Off still kinda a thing there?
Blank Space maybe actually helping her breakthrough. 
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Originally posted by Hunter_13
Do you know why this is happening?
Is Shake it Off still kinda a thing there?
Blank Space maybe actually helping her breakthrough. |
1989 is in the "Best of 2014" iTunes selection.
The singles are doing quite good too.
14. SIO
29. BS
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Originally posted by TroubleSwift
This Love is so underrated. Like I know it is slow, and maybe the first time or two it comes off as boring or whatever. But every single time it comes on and I listen to it through headphones I get chills.
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It's a great song
The way it resembles waves
It's just not single material tbh
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By my reckoning Taylor has sold at least 3.6 million singles in the UK so far! And 2.8 million since 2012 when WANEGOD dropped!
Latest figures are SIO is on 715k, BS on 332k.
In Oct 2014, IKYWT was on 790k, it is easily past 800k now.
LS and WANEGOD are Plat certified (600k)
EHC, 22, YBWM all Silver certified (200k)
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Originally posted by WonderstruckFR
1989 is in the "Best of 2014" iTunes selection.
The singles are doing quite good too.
14. SIO
29. BS
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Bless iTunes. 
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Originally posted by revel8
By my reckoning Taylor has sold at least 3.6 million singles in the UK so far! And 2.8 million since 2012 when WANEGOD dropped!
Latest figures are SIO is on 715k, BS on 332k.
In Oct 2014, IKYWT was on 790k, it is easily past 800k now.
LS and WANEGOD are Plat certified (600k)
EHC, 22, YBWM all Silver certified (200k)
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So crazy tbh
SN and debut were such flops tho
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Originally posted by revel8
By my reckoning Taylor has sold at least 3.6 million singles in the UK so far! And 2.8 million since 2012 when WANEGOD dropped!
Latest figures are SIO is on 715k, BS on 332k.
In Oct 2014, IKYWT was on 790k, it is easily past 800k now.
LS and WANEGOD are Plat certified (600k)
EHC, 22, YBWM all Silver certified (200k)
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These were some totals from the first week of November:
I Knew You Were Trouble: 817,656
Love Story: 648,370
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together: 615,751
Everything Has Changed: 350,874
22: 301,102
And as of that same week, her total singles/track sales in the UK totaled 5,030,401 (when SIO had just passed 518,215). So her singles total in the UK is probably around 5,600,000 now! This was all reported by the Official Charts Company.
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I think 1989 will replace Fearless as her best selling album ever. It can be sold over 6M by end of year in USA alone if she plays it right. If she manages to sweep 2016 Grammy, 1989 probably crosses 7M (hopefully diamond in a long chart run). Global is ready for her so, 10M is not impossible to reach 
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Originally posted by HyperCrush
These were some totals from the first week of November:
I Knew You Were Trouble: 817,656
Love Story: 648,370
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together: 615,751
Everything Has Changed: 350,874
22: 301,102
And as of that same week, her total singles/track sales in the UK totaled 5,030,401 (when SIO had just passed 518,215). So her singles total in the UK is probably around 5,600,000 now! This was all reported by the Official Charts Company.
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YBWM has sold at least 200K too 
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Quote:
Originally posted by revel8
By my reckoning Taylor has sold at least 3.6 million singles in the UK so far! And 2.8 million since 2012 when WANEGOD dropped!
Latest figures are SIO is on 715k, BS on 332k.
In Oct 2014, IKYWT was on 790k, it is easily past 800k now.
LS and WANEGOD are Plat certified (600k)
EHC, 22, YBWM all Silver certified (200k)
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Some updated numbers to the above
From release week (Oct 27th 2014)
I Knew You Were Trouble - 817,656
Love Story - 648,370
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - 615,751
Everything Has Changed (feat. Ed Sheeran) - 350,874
22 - 301,102
YBWM (200k Silver Cert)
So that's 3.97 million singles in the UK (not counting those singles under Silver certification). And since Red Era 3.13 million! 
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Originally posted by swiftie13
112k at 51% already |
considering Galaxy is at #2, I think the sales are mostly from
iTunes. and we know her physical sales are stronger
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Originally posted by HyperCrush
These were some totals from the first week of November:
I Knew You Were Trouble: 817,656
Love Story: 648,370
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together: 615,751
Everything Has Changed: 350,874
22: 301,102
And as of that same week, her total singles/track sales in the UK totaled 5,030,401 (when SIO had just passed 518,215). So her singles total in the UK is probably around 5,600,000 now! This was all reported by the Official Charts Company.
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I just saw your post. It renders my last post redundant really.
Do you have the link for the OCC with those figures?
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Originally posted by revel8
I just saw your post. It renders my last post redundant really.
Do you have the link for the OCC with those figures?
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So I just looked, and it seems the numbers are from MusicWeek and not OCC, as I thought. I found the article in full, but the link to MusicWeek requires a login/password as it's a subscription site: http://www.musicweek.com/businessana...of-1989/060028
The full article (apologies for the length, I didn't feel like reading through for only the Taylor related info):
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Official Charts Analysis: Taylor Swift tops albums with 90,336 sales of 1989
ALBUMS
Taylor Swift has gone pop and gone stratospheric with fifth studio album 1989 set to sell upwards of a million copies on its first week on release in America, while opening atop the UK chart on sales of 90,336 copies. That's the sixth highest weekly sale for an artist album thus far in the UK in 2014, and the highest for 17 weeks - when pal Ed Sheeran's X sold 93,270 copies on its second week at number one.
It is also 46.22% higher than Swift's previous fastest start, as posted by last album Red, which debuted two years ago last week at number one on sales of 61,779 copies. Swift's first number one album, it was helped by the fact that five of its tracks had made the Top 40 before its release although We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together Again was the only bona fide single at the stage. 1989's first single, Shake It Off spends its 11th straight week in the Top 10 this week, a new record for Swift, rebounding 5-3 (48,743 sales) while preview track Welcome To The Woods dips 39-84 (4,337 sales). No other song from the album manages to penetrate the Top 75 although four of them make the Top 200, namely Blank Space (number 99, 3,840 sales), Out Of The Woods (number 136, 2,893 sales), Style (number 147, 2,561 sales) and Wonderland (number 171, 2,285 sales).
That brings to 31 the number of songs Swift has landed on the Top 200, though only 14 have made the Top 40 and just six have reached the Top 10.
Shake It has become the fourth Swift song to sell upwards of 500,000 copies (518,215, to be precise), and her total singles/track sales also reach a new landmark last week, passing the 5m mark to end the week at 5,030,401.
1989 looks like having a good shot at becoming Swift's biggest selling album - which is bad news for Red, which only recently eclipsed 2009 predecessor Fearless to become Swift's biggest seller. All of her previous albums, with to-date sales: Red (510,107), Fearless (499,698), Speak Now (169,281) and Taylor Swift (127,154).
1989 is, of course, the year of Swift's birth, and by the time she was born on 13 December of that year, Annie Lennox had already had three number ones as half of Eurythmics. 60 on Christmas Day, Lennox is still a force to be reckoned with and lands the week's only other Top 10 debut with her sixth solo album, Nostalgia, landing at number nine (11,522 sales).
Made up entirely of American standards, most of which date from the 1930s and none of which is less than 50 years old, it is Lennox's third covers album. The first, Medusa, provided her second and last (so far) solo number one when it debuted atop the chart on sales of 78,802 copies in 1995. The seasonal set, A Christmas Cornucopia was Lennox's last album prior to Nostalgia, dropping in 2010, when it debuted at number 27 (11,100 sales) and eventually peaked at number 16.
It is 32 years since Led Zeppelin released the last of their nine studio albums but they score their fourth and fifth Top 20 entries of the year with band member Jimmy Page's newly remastered and expanded editions of 1971's Led Zeppelin IV and 1973's Houses Of The Holy (both originally number ones) re-entering at number six (13,622 sales) and number 14 (7,852 sales), respectively. In June, Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II and Led Zeppelin III re-entered at seven (12,423 sales), 12 (11,302 sales) and 10 (11,476 sales).
After debuting at number one last week, Ben Howard's I Forget Where We Were falls to number four (16,072 sales).
Elsewhere in the Top 10, Ed Sheeran's X climbs 3-2 (54,363 sales, the highest for a number two for 17 weeks), Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour rallies 6-3 (21,681 sales), George Ezra's Wanted On Voyage climbs 8-5 (15,478 sales), Neil Diamond's Melody Road falls 4-7 (13,485 sales), Status Quo's Aquostic: Stripped Bare falls 5-8 (12,218 sales) and Ella Henderson's Chapter One dips 7-10 (11,005 sales).
Falling out of the Top 10 are Slipknot's 5: The Gray Chapter (2-11, 8,789 sales), Barbra Streisand's Partners (9-12, 8,697 sales) and Jessie J's Sweet Talker (10-18, 5,630 sales).
Cambridge band Mallory Knox's second album, Asymmetry, debuts at number 16 (6,218 sales), some 22 months after their first release Signals debuted and peaked at number 33 (4,163 sales).
American rockers Black Veil Brides' career thus far has been on an upwards trajectory. First album We Stitch These Wounds was released in 2010 and failed to make the Top 200 but 2011 follow-up Set The World On Fire reached number 54, and 2013 concept album Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones debuted and peaked at number 20 in 2013, registering first week sales of 6,707. They continue their progress with eponymous fourth album debuting at number 17 (5,950 sales).
47 years after his first charted album as Cat Stevens and five years after his last chart album as Yusuf, the 66 year old singer/songwriter born Stephen Georgiou returns to the chart with new album Tell 'Em I'm Gone bearing both of his recording aliases. Debuting at number 22 (4,433 sales), it is the follow-up to Roadsinger, which debuted and peaked at number 10 in 2009, providing his highest charting studio album since Buddha And The Chocolate Box reached number three in 1974. Tell 'Em I'm Gone is his 16th chart album, including compilations.
With sales of just 2,384 since it was released 40 weeks ago, Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers were winners of the Mercury Prize on Wednesday with debut album Dead - a surprise result which garnered much press and immediately kickstarted the album, which now debuts at number 35, with more sales (2,599) than in the whole of its career hitherto. James Blake won the Mercury Prize last year with his second album Overgrown, which had sold 27,732 copies before its victory, a total which has since swollen to 62,064.
London rapper Blade Brown's first two albums failed to make the Top 200 but his third Bags And Boxes 3 debuts at number 42 (2,384 sales) on only two days sales, all of them digital.
Also new to the Top 75 this week: Honor Is All We Know (number 45, 2,331 sales) by Rancid, Z² (number 46, 2,270 sales) by Devin Townsend Project, Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave (number 51, 2,065 sales) by The Twilight Sad and Set Apart (number 66, 1,503 sales) by Worship Central.
Six years ago - in the wake of their chart-topping debut single That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings' first album We Started Nothing debuted at number one on sales of 47,907 copies. With Shut Up And Let Me Go also reaching the Top 10 and three further tracks charting, the album spent over a year in the Top 75, and has thus far sold 639,876 copies. 2012 follow-up Sounds From Nowheresville lacked a major hit - its only Top 75 offcut Hands reached number 29 - and debuted at number 23 (6,246 sales). It fell off the chart the following week, and sold only 16,291 copies, leadint o their departure from Columbia Records. Third album Super Critical - on the duo's own newly formed Finca label - arrived last week, and fares even less well, debuting at number 111 (951 sales)
OneRepublic's appearance on The X Factor eight days ago singing their latest single I Lived provided fresh impetus for their third album Native, which surges 31-13 (8,298 sales) to secure its highest chart position for 11 weeks. The album, which was released in March 2013, has spawned three Top 10 singles - If I Lose Myself, Counting Stars and Love Runs Out. I Lived debuted at number 132 last week and now catapults to number 29 (13,525 sales).
With the physical version selling for £3 at Amazon and the download on offer at 99p at Google Play, Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water re-enters the chart at number 21. Number one for 33 weeks in 1970/71, it was last in the Top 75 in January 2012, and most recently made the Top 40 in 1975. It remains one of the UK's biggest selling albums, with the 5,064 copies it sold last week lifting its career sales tally to a phenomenal 3,163,789.
After six weeks atop the compilation chart, Keep Calm And Chillout falls to number three (14,986 sales), well beaten by BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge 2014 which debuts atop the list on sales of 41,690 copies, and narrowly beaten by Now That's What I Call A Million, which debuts at number two (17,215 sales). Of nine previous Live Lounge releases, dating back to 2006 - one of them a 'best of' - two reached number two and the other seven reached number one, recording a combined tally of 2,648,836 sales. That includes a top tally of 935,687 for the first - Radio 1's Live Lounge - which included Arctic Monkeys' version of Girls Aloud hit Love Machine, The Kooks on Gnarls Barkley's Crazy and Lily Allen and Oasis reprising their own hits Smile and Songbird. Live Lounge 2014's opening tally is an impressive 23.90% up on the 33,648 copies that the 2013 version of the album sold when it topped the chart on debut a year ago. Featuring exclusive recordings of stars performing on the Radio One programme strand of the same name, which was originally part of the Jo Whiley show and is now on Fearne Cotton's show, Live Lounge 2014 is a double disc set of 39 recordings including Ed Sheeran's version of Sam Smith's Stay With Me, Ben Howard's interpretation of Kiesza's Hideaway and George Ezra nuancing his own Budapest.
Overall album sales are up 17.44% week-on-week at 1,562,356 - 1.28% above same week 2013 sales of 1,542,588. It is only the fifth time in 44 weeks that have thus far elapsed in 2014 that sales have been higher than the same week in 2013, and the first time it has happened for 17 weeks. It is also the third highest weekly album sale of the year, and the highest for 31 weeks.
SINGLES
Ending Meghan Trainor's four week run at the top of the singles chart, Ed Sheeran scores his second number one and shatters a chart longevity record with Thinking Out Loud.
Gaining impetus from his performance of the song on The X Factor results show eight days ago, Thinking Out Loud sold 89,475 copies last week (15,643 of them streaming 'sales') to reach the summit on its 19th week on the Top 75. It thus shatters the previous record of 16 weeks, held jointly by three records. The first of the trio is Jennifer Rush's 1985 debut smash The Power Of Love, which pottered around the lower reaches of the chart for a long time, eventually breaking into the Top 30 on its 14th week on the list, and reaching number one a fortnight later. Nine years later, Celine Dion's Think Twice also overcame a sluggish start to top the list for the first time after 16 weeks. Most recently, Telephone debuted towards the end of 2009 for Lady Gaga and Beyonce, and even dropped out of the Top 75 for a week, before surging to the summit on its 16th week in the Top 75 and 17th week in the chart overall, moving 30-41-62-82-74-67-55-48-49-42-39-39-34-37-31-12-1.
Thinking Out Loud has had a very different profile to the previous record holders, and has spent its entire life thus far in the Top 30, debuting as an album track, and gaining strength after becoming an official single, with the resulting surge in radio and TV support conveying it to the summit. Moving 26-25-29-23-28-20-18-16-13-17-18-24-19-18-17-10-4-2-1, it has sold a grand total of 496,033 copies (including streaming sales) and is one of 16 songs by Sheeran in the Top 200, all of them climbers or re-entries.
Dethroned it might be, but All About That Bass continues to sell at a fast clip for Meghan Trainor, shifting a further 68,907 copies as it slips to number two.
A singular success for its writer in 1990 as Wicked Game, Chris Isaak's haunting ballad has been transformed into a floorfilling dance anthem under the pluralised title Wicked Games, and exceeds the original's number 10 chart peak by debuting at number six (30,479 sales) for German producer Nicolas Demuth aka Parra For Cuva and vocalist Anna Naklab.
Previously heading in one direction - down - Steal My Girl moves in the other now for One Direction, rallying 11-7 (29,631 sales) following the release of its promotional videoclip featuring Danny DeVito.
Elsewhere in the Top 10: Taylor Swift's Shake It Off rallies 5-3 (48,743 sales); Bang Bang holds at number four (37,037 sales) for Jessie J; Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj, Don't Tell 'Em recovers 6-5 (30,944 sales) to equal its previous peak for Jeremih feat. YG; Bump & Grind 2014 dips 3-8 (27,679 sales) for Waze & Odyssey feat. R. Kelly; Blame drifts 7-9 (26,561 sales) for Calvin Harris feat. John Newman; and I'm Not The Only One remains at number 10 (24,849 sales) for Sam Smith.
Open Wide (feat. Big Sean) - a preview track from Calvin Harris' new album - debuts at number 23 (16,047 sales).
Also new to the Top 75 are Gold Skies (number 49, 7,075 sales) by Sander Van Doorn, Martin Garrix & Dvbbs; Medicine (number 53, 6,703 sales) by The 1975; Take U There (number 63, 6,038 sales) by Jack U feat. Kiesza; So There (number 67, 5,573 sales) by Alexa Goddard.
Animals improves 32-27 (14,556 sales) to reach a new peak for Maroon 5.
Two more reasons for Pharrell Williams to be Happy - his hit of that title rebounds 35-33 (11,846 sales) extending its run of consecutive weeks in the Top 40 to a record 48, and it has now sold more than 2m copies - 2,012,942 at the latest count - something only seven other singles have managed.
Overall singles sales are up 1.75% week-on-week at 5,705,265. Streaming accounted for 3,207,671 sales last week – a record 56.23% of the total. Under previously existing criteria where only paid-for purchases were included, overall singles sales are up 0.88% week-on-week at 2,497,594 – 20.49% below same week 2013 sales of 3,141,255 and the 64th consecutive week in which they have declined versus a year ago.
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could somebody explains why the cover slaying so hard on iTunes??? Hopefully WOTE makes a cover too
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