While it has not visited the #1 spot on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart in several weeks, Taylor Swift’s blockbuster “1989” continues to sell at an impressive pace.
And as of the sales week ending March 8, its cumulative US sales total exceeds 4.5 million.
Per official Nielsen data, sales of “1989” registered just shy of 44,000 during the most recent tracking week. That brings the album’s release-to-date mark to an impressive 4.504 million.
Earned in just over four months of release, that total puts “1989” in the same sales ballpark as her 2010 release “Speak Now.” According to Billboard, that album’s cumulative sales mark stood at approximately 4.5 million as of January 2015.
The album’s sales total has already passed that of 2012’s “Red” (~4.1 million as of January).
Roughly 843,000 of “1989”‘s cumulative sales came in 2015; Swift’s album thus continues to top the year-to-date sales list. Drake’s “If You’re Reading This it’s Too Late,” which holds the runner-up position, has moved just over 721,000 copies since its surprise February release.
— With Track Equivalent Album (10 single sales = 1 album sale) and Streaming Equivalent Album (1500 single streams = 1 album sale) included, the “1989” weekly consumption unit total registered at 77,000. That earns it the #3 spot on this week’s consumption-driven Billboard 200.
