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Update:<\/b> Taylor Swift’s “1989” is officially a member of the 4 million sales club.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to final Soundscan data, the blockbuster album commanded a weekly sales total of 92,196. Enough for a #2 slot on the album sales chart behind Meghan Trainor’s “Title,” the weekly figure boosts the album’s cumulative sales mark to 4.036 million.<\/em>
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While it did not rank as this past week’s best-selling album, Taylor Swift’s “1989” achieved something even more special.<\/p>\n

The singer-songwriter’s fifth studio album reached a cumulative US sales total in excess of 4 million. And it did so four times as quickly as any previous Swift release.<\/p>\n

Per Hits Daily Double, “1989” was purchased approximately 92,102 times during the week ending January 18. As a result, “1989” now claims a release-to-date sales total of roughly 4.04 million.<\/p>\n

Billboard’s more authoritative data will differ slightly from that reported by Hits, but the margin of error will not be enough to change the reality: Taylor Swift has sold more than 4 million US copies of “1989.”<\/p>\n

“1989,” which required only two months to register as 2014’s best-selling album, crossed the 4 million mark after only 12 weeks of release. The fastest to achieve the milestone since Usher’s “Confessions,” the album reached 4 million at a rate unrivaled by any of Swift’s previous four albums.<\/p>\n

Sophomore album “Fearless,” which was previously her fastest-moving release, needed 50 weeks to reach 4 million. Third and fourth albums “Speak Now” and “Red” each needed 69 weeks to get to four million, while Swift’s self-titled debut achieved the milestone after 125 frames.<\/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],"tags":[2784,145],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\nTaylor Swift's "1989" Crosses the 4 Million Sales Mark (Updated)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Update: Taylor Swift's "1989" is officially a member of the 4 million sales club. 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