Taylor Swift’s 1989 Sells 1.287 In Its First Week

Taylor Swift’s 1989 has become the first album of 2014 to sell 1 million copies on Wednesday and according to Nielsen SoundScan date, 1989 sold 1.287 million copies in its first week.

These numbers will make Taylor Swift the first artist ever to have three albums sell over a million copies in a  week: Speak Now sold 1.047 million copies in 2010 and Red sold 1.21 million copies in 2012. As Billboard note, she’s also the first artist of this year to sell 1 million records total, which makes 1989 the second-largest selling album in 2014. The Frozen soundtrack, released last year, had sold 3.2 million copies this year and 3.5 million total (it was released in November 2013).

Industry forecasters originally predicted that 1989 would sell 750,000 copies in its first week. That number quickly rose to 800,000, 900,000, 1 million and then topped out at 1.3 million copies on November 1. If she had hit over 1.3 million she would have beat the one-week sales record for an album by a woman, currently Britney Spears’s Oops… I Did It Again.

According to her Instrgram account, we still have a feeling that she is feeling pretty good about this…

So she captioned the video: “Industry experts predicted 1989 would sell 650k first week. You went and bought 1.287 million albums. AND IT’S GOT ME LIKE:”

It looks like country music hate Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift only appeals pop music. You have to use other country artists like Miranda Lambert to do country music. Despite country music keeps getting better since country music is going strong since the turn of the 21st century which begins in 2001, popular music hates country music like Brad Paisley. You have to use America music to do county music like Tim McGraw. Also, country music doesn’t care about Taylor Swift like Begin Again. You have to use pop music to do Taylor Swift like You Belong With Me. Not only that, Taylor Swift albums sold more than 1 million copies in its first week killed Taylor Swift making country music. I guess Taylor Swift will only appeal pop music. If her country music’s absent is way too long while her pop music is longer and more profitable than her country before she will be heading back to country music, I’m afraid it might be too late and her country music can get easily walled against other country music like Hunter Hayes. Yeah, Taylor Swift’s country music could’ve done better if all her country music are pop songs rather than country songs. Ditto Carrie Underwood. Good thing all her country music do belong to pop on Vevo. All Vevo can do now is to make a Vevo commercial and music videos will be back in the game. Rant over. Let’s continue.

Because Taylor Swift sold nearly 1.3 million copies in one week, according to Neilsen SoundScan, the biggest sales week for an album in 14 years. Can you believe that? It is also the first album to sell more copies than Red (her last country album and her previous album) in the US on its first week since 2002’s The Eminem Show, Eminem’s third album released in 2002.

1989 is also her fifth number one studio album overall. The only Taylor Swift album that is not her first consecutive number one album is her debut self-titled album which came out in 2006 since it only peaked at number 1 on US Top Country Albums. The first consecutive number one Taylor Swift album goes to Fearless back in 2008. Duh.

Anyway, 1989 is also Taylor Swift’s fourth consecutive number one album, and her largest bow at the top yet. She had previously topped the Billboard 200 with Red in 2012, Speak Now in 2010 and Fearless, which would go on to win the Grammy for Album of the Year. 1989 is also the first Taylor Swift album to not have a country Billboard chart. So no US Top Country Albums chart for 1989. The last Taylor Swift album to have a US Top Country Albums chart is Red.

With Speak Now, Red and now, 1989, sold more than 1 million copies in the US during their first week in 2010, 2012 and 2014 respectively, it looks like Taylor Swift will be retiring her country music career at the age of nearly 25 since she can only do country music for teen country music, her made up country music rather than country music in general like country-pop. That’s Hunter Hayes’s job. Duh. So, after Taylor Swift changed her main genre to pop, she will no longer play her country music on country and she can only play her country music on pop. Not only that, she can tackle new genres after pop like rock. So I would like a pop-metal Taylor Swift single for 2016. Lol. Let continue.

1989 is one of 19 records to sell a million copies in a week since Niesen SoundScan began tracking sales 23 years ago back in 1991. Of those 19, three belongs to the Shake It Off singer - - Speak Now, Red and 1989. This also makes Taylor Swift the only female artist ever to have three albums debut with sales of over 1 million copies.

It was smart enough that fans buying multiple copies of the 1989 CD could be one reason 1989 outsold Red. Each physical copy of 1989 came with one of five sets of 13 Polaroid photos including the deluxe edition of the physical copy of 1989 which you can only find at Target.

The Tim McGraw singer had sold 470,000 copies of 1989 at Target, which carried the deluxe edition of 1989 with 6 additional tracks. So, in other words, Taylor Swift has manage to sold more copies of 1989 at Target than 2014’s next-highest debut – Coldplay’s Ghost Stories, with 383,000 – sold everywhere.

Now with 1989 sold more than 1.2 million copies in the US after its first week sales, it's time for Taylor Swift to move away from country music and play all her country songs on pop radio. That means all her country songs like Tim McGraw are now pop songs rather than country songs. Next up after the 1989 era is her 10th anniversary of Tim McGraw and her first greatest hits album which will be her second pop album. Taylor Swift's greatest hits album will include all her singles including her country singles and she will have 2 new pop/rock songs on her 2016 greatest hits album just in time to celebrate the tenth anniversary of her first album from 2006.

Oh yeah, one more thing, Taylor Swift will be chosen Blank Space as her second single off of 1989. Blank Space will be released to mainstream radio (not country radio) this Tuesday and she will perform that song on 2014 American Music Awards hosted by Pitbull. Let's hope Taylor Swift gets to work on her Blank Space music video.

What do you think? Are you happy that 1989 is the 19th album to sold more than 1 million copies in the US during its first week? You are happy that 1989 is Taylor Swift's third album to sell more than 1 million copies in the US during its first week? Sound off below!