Taylor Swifts 1989 continues to rack up monster sales, as industry forecasters now say the album could sell over 1.2 million copies in its first week (ending Nov. 2). Its thus nearing the 1.21 million bow of her last album, 2012s Red (which was also the last release to sell a million copies in a week, according to Nielsen SoundScan). The new album was released through Big Machine Records on Oct. 27 and is Swifts fifth studio album. It should easily debut atop next weeks Billboard 200 chart, when its top 10 is revealed (along with Swifts official sales figure) on Wednesday, Nov. 5. Sources say 1989 sold over 600,000 albums in its first day on sale and set a pre-order record in the U.S. iTunes Store, surpassing One Directions 195,000 pre-order figure with last years Midnight Memories. If 1989 sells as forecasted, it will become the biggest-selling album released in 2014 after only one week on sale, have the largest sales week by any album since Red, and make Swift the only act to earn three million-selling weeks.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 07:37:34 +0000
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