Taylor Swift’s 1989 Now Sold 5 Million Copies In The US

It looks like Taylor Swift’s 1989 hits 5 million in US sales. 1989 is the fastest-selling album in over 10 years. That makes 1989 the quickest climb since 2004.

It looks like Taylor Swift’s mega-selling album which is 1989 continues to be unstoppable ever since Taylor Swift’s pop music (Boo!) has dominated Taylor Swift’s music career leaving her crossover country career hits rock bottom since 2012 thanks to We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Boo!) for ruining her crossover country-pop career. It’s quite a shame because I like her country-pop crossover career like Mean more than her pop music like I Knew You Were Trouble in her 9 year career. Her first 3 albums like Speak Now was great. They’re better than her 2012-present pop career like Red. Aside from the very good 22 and the awesome 1989 songs like Blank Space, I hate her pop career from 2012-2015 like Everything Has Changed. I want my crossover country-pop career songs like Begin Again, Taylor Swift. OK, enough with the chit-chat and let’s move on.

As Taylor Swift’s mega-selling album, 1989, continues to be unstoppable, the set has now surpassed 5 million in US sales, according to Nielsen Music, making it the fastest seller to reach that plateau in more than 10 years. That’s right, Taylor Swift’s 1989 is the fastest selling 2010s album in the 2010s decade as well as the second best-selling 2010s album in the US during the 2010s decade. The best-selling 2010s album in the US is Adele’s 21 who sold 5 million copies in the US during its 42nd week.

1989 has now crossed the 5 million mark in the week ending July 5, with around 26,000 sold and its total now stands at 5.015 million. The album reaches the milestone in only its 36th week of its release. 1989 has the speediest climb to 5 million since the week ending August 1, 2004, when Usher’s Confessions hit 5 million in only its 19th week on sale.

1989 is the third Taylor Swift album to sell 5 million copies following 2008’s Fearless and Taylor Swift’s self-titled debut album from 2006. Taylor Swift’s first two albums (the first album title-less 2006 album and Fearless) sold 5.52 and 6.95 million copies respectively to date.

As Fearless and Taylor Swift’s 2006 self-titled album sold 6.95 million and 5.52 million, respectively, to-date, this is also the most recently released album to sell 5 million since Adele’s 21 powered through 5 million in its 42nd week on December 11, 2011. 21 sold 11.1 million as of 2013.

On the latest Billboard 200 albums chart (dated July 18), 1989 spends its 36th consecutive week in the top 10 (rising 4-3). The last album to rack up its first 36 chart weeks in the top 10 was Adele’s 21, which didn’t vacate the region until its 79th week (dated September 8, 2012).

Now that 1989 has sold 5 million copies, it looks like Taylor Swift might be able to bring back electric-guitar-strings-attached pop rock music the next time she will be working on her next album for next year. Anyway, congrats, Tay Tay. Keep up the good work.