Trending News|October 30, 2014 04:16 EDT
Taylor Swift '1989' Album Sales Review: New Album Will Go Platinum in First Week of Release?
Taylor Swift released her fifth and latest studio album 1989 on Monday, Oct. 27, and BillBoard estimates that this musical departure from her usual country-pop roots is likely to be the first album of the year that will attain platinum in the first week of its release.
In fact, if BillBoard's predictions turn out to be true, 1989 will be the third consecutive record of Taylor Swift to go platinum in the first week of its release. Her albums Speak Now and Red also accomplished this in 2010 and 2012 respectively.
According to a report by Stereogum, Swift's 1989 is also expected to sell a million copies by the end of this week.
However, Swift's 1989 still trails behind Disney's Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack which sold an astounding $3.2 million worth of copies and was later certified by the Recording Industry Association of America a triple-Platinum. In fact, 1989 will eventually become the second-best selling album of 2014.
A Forbes report points out that only 83 songs went platinum in 2013 owing to dwindling digital sales and the listeners opting to purchase the singles instead of the entire album. As of Oct. 16, 2014, more than 60 different songs have sold over one million copies.
When Beyoncé released her self-titled album in December last year, it sold 1.3 million copies in the final three weeks of 2013. Currently, it is ranked at No. 2, having sold 787,000 this year. Similarly Lorde's Pure Heroine, which was also released last year, is just marginally behind Beyoncé's album with 750,000 albums sold in 2014.
On the other hand, Justin Timberlake's comeback album, The 20/20 Experience, is among the five records that sold one million units sold by the Fall of 2013. Timberlake's third studio album also turned out to be the best-selling album of 2013 in the U.S, selling 2,427,000 copies.
On a side note, Marshall Mathers LP 2, the eighth effort by rapper Eminem, became the second-highest selling album of 2013 - it sold more than two million copies in United States as of Sept. 4, says Nielsen Soundscan.
