{"id":31042,"date":"2014-11-11T17:36:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T21:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=31042"},"modified":"2014-11-12T12:16:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T16:16:05","slug":"taylor-swifts-1989-wins-latest-album-sales-race-403k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/11\/11\/taylor-swifts-1989-wins-latest-album-sales-race-403k\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;1989&#8221; Wins Latest Album Sales Race with 402K (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><b>Update:<\/b> Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;1989&#8221; earns a second week atop the Billboard 200 on the strength of 402,000 second-week sales.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Per Billboard, the weekly top ten is as follows:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>1 &#8211; Taylor Swift &#8211; 1989 &#8211; 402K<\/em><br \/>\n<em> 2 &#8211; NOW 52 &#8211; 59K<\/em><br \/>\n<em> 3 &#8211; Bette Midler &#8211; It&#8217;s the Girls &#8211; 40K<\/em><br \/>\n<em> 4 &#8211; Jason Aldean &#8211; Old Boots, New Dirt &#8211; 35K<\/em><br \/>\n<em> 5 &#8211; Calvin Harris &#8211; Motion &#8211; 35K<\/em><br \/>\n<em> 6 &#8211; Florida Georgia Line &#8211; Anything Goes &#8211; 30K<\/em><br \/>\n<em> 7 &#8211; Barbra Streisand &#8211; Partners &#8211; 28K<\/em><br \/>\n<em> 8 &#8211; Sam Smith &#8211; In the Lonely Hour &#8211; 27K<\/em><br \/>\n<em> 9 &#8211; Brantley Gilbert &#8211; Just as I Am &#8211; 26K<\/em><br \/>\n<em> 10 &#8211; Sam Hunt &#8211; Montevallo &#8211; 25K<\/em><\/p>\n<p>============<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;1989&#8221; debuted atop the Billboard 200 thanks to the year&#8217;s strongest weekly sales total.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the album retains its #1 position thanks to the year&#8217;s second-strongest total.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hits Daily Double, Swift&#8217;s &#8220;1989&#8221; moved approximately 402,895 copies in its second week of release. Assuming Billboard&#8217;s authoritative tally does not notably differ, the count will best any 2014 total but the 1.287 million moved by &#8220;1989&#8221; in its inaugural frame.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the Swift album&#8217;s release, Coldplay&#8217;s &#8220;Ghost Stories&#8221; possessed the year&#8217;s largest opening week sales tally. This past May, it debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 383,000 first frame copies.<\/p>\n<p>Per Hits, &#8220;NOW 52&#8221; will comfortably repeat as the week&#8217;s #2 album courtesy a sales count of approximately 60,149. Bette Midler&#8217;s &#8220;It&#8217;s The Girls&#8221; looks good for the #3 spot&#8211;and the week&#8217;s best debut slot&#8211;with about 39,216, while Jason Aldean&#8217;s &#8220;Old Boots, New Dirt&#8221; and Calvin Harris&#8217; &#8220;Motion&#8221; should claim the final top five slots on the strength of about 35,000 sales each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[183,1047,206],"tags":[2784,3109,1935,1873,176,1372,3128,145],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taylor Swift&#039;s &quot;1989&quot; Wins Latest Album Sales Race with 402K (Updated)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Update: Taylor Swift&#039;s &quot;1989&quot; earns a second week atop the Billboard 200 on the strength of 402,000 second-week sales. 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