Very preliminary sales forecasts for Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now” reveal that the album is on pace for an opening week sales figure in the realm of one million. If projections hold, the total will mark a significant increase from the impressive 592,000 debut total for her Grammy-winning 2008 release “Fearless.”
Hits Daily Double, which creates its forecasts based on opening day sales data, currently projects Swift’s third full-length release to move at least 800-900,000 units in its first week. There are signs that the total could go higher, with insiders viewing a debut total on par with the 1.01 million for Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter III” as a possibility.
Reasons for the optimism do exist–in addition to Swift generating late buzz for a number of singles from the album, forecasts have previously been less accurate when predicting totals for Monday releases. Eminem’s “Recovery,” for instance, outperformed its initial forecast by a sizable margin en route to scoring the top opening week of 2010.
Regardless of whether “Speak Now” hits that million mark, it now appears an absolute certainty that Taylor Swift’s third release will surpass the Eminem album’s opening week total and become the year’s top debut.
Wow! She just keeps getting better and better! I think she is someone who definately deserves it.
Well deserved! I absolutely love her new album…been playing it every second since I bought it…