Taylor Swift did it. The country superstar sold over one million copies of her new CD, “Speak Now” in its first week. In this day and age of declining album sales, Swift’s achievement truly is remarkable and speaks on how big Taylor really is. The last album to move over a million units during its first week was Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter III” back in 2008.
As if debuting at No 1. on the Billboard Charts with that many records sold wasn’t impressive enough, Swift boasted a few other notable feats. Her impressive sales, bested Shania Twain’s “Up” which moved 874,000 units in 2002, thus making Swift the record holder for most CDs sold in a week by a country female artist. The last country act to even break the million mark was Garth Brooks when he released “Double Live” in 1998.
When final numbers are calculated, Swift could break the mark for best percentage of total sales in a single week. As it stands right now, “Speak Now” accounted between 17-18% of the sales last week. Meaning that nearly one in every five albums bought was Swift’s. NSYNC currently holds the record by selling 2.4 million units of “No Strings Attached” during its first week and accounting for 15.3% of the market. So how did Taylor manage to sell so many last week?
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