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Originally posted by revel8
I think some people are forgetting that Speak Now had sold about the same as Red has at this point in it's release cycle. Red has also done massively better than Speak Now in International markets and in album track sales too.
Don't forget the album market shrinks every year, latest figures are that album sales are down 8.4% from the year before in the US. We still have the Grammy boost to come for Red, which will be significant if she wins anything and will still occur anyway due to a Grammy performance.
Big Machine are not bothered about whether Red overtakes Speak Now in US sales, if they were they would just discount Red from the premium price of $14.99 on iTunes.
Speak Now is the 3rd bestselling album in the US this decade and Red is currently the 5th already. Red is soon going to be the 4th bestseller of the decade. There are not many albums (if any) that will outsell these 2 albums in the US for the remainder of this decade.
This is some data from Oldbloke at UKMix showing the best selling albums in the US this decade (since 2010). The chart is from Nov 30, 2013 so is before the Christmas period, and thus slightly out of date.
Rank - Estimated Sales - TITLE - Artist
01 - 10,798,000 - 21 - Adele
02 - 4,516,000 - RECOVERY - Eminem
03 - 4,384,000 - SPEAK NOW - Taylor Swift
04 - 4,033,000 - NEED YOU NOW - Lady Antebellum
05 - 3,873,000 - RED - Taylor Swift
06 - 3,301,000 - MY WORLD 2.0 - Justin Bieber
07 - 3,132,000 - CHRISTMAS - Michael Buble
08 - 3,034,000 - SIGH NO MORE - Mumford & Sons
09 - 3,003,000 - MY KINDA PARTY - Jason Aldean
10 - 2,796,000 - TEENAGE DREAM - Katy Perry
NB Fearless was at #42 on the list at 1,424,000
Latest sales figures for Red are about 3,963,000 from Roughstock (rounded up to the nearest 1000). So it sold about 90k copies or so in December. If it sold about 6k last week as Hits estimates then Red is about 30k short of 4 million mark. This will be reached by the Grammy's boost.
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