artist stats UK: Taylor Swift is #1 best-selling female singles artist, Ed Sheeran #1 overall

[Feanor]

 

 

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 Overall consumption of Swift tracks in the week of 907,505 units raise her career tally to 63,975,611 – more than anyone but Ed Sheeran (97,613,053). 

 

Taylor's overall album units in the UK have also been updated:

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Overall consumption of Swift albums in the week of 223,256 raises her career tally to 7,760,540 units.

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[noahfence]

the global domination of it all

[WildHeart]

Biggest female artist of all time in the UK 

[MingYouToo]

The thing that I think makes people baffled and discredit Taylor's success is that her success is too equally ratio'd between hit singles and albums. You've got popgirls bagging 1 hit album with like 5 hit songs in between and do it for like 3-4 eras then fade... Meanwhile Taylor goes on to her 10th, 11th, 12th, era and manages a hit album while bagging at least 1 or 2 hits. No wonder ATRLers think she's a local artist, she's successful on both fronts.

[Breakdown]

I can't put in words how much he disgusts me, this spawn of satan.

Congrats, Taylent  

[CaptainMusic]

14 minutes ago, Artistofthedecade said:

Biggest female artist of all time in the UK 

Umm I’m pretty sure Madonna and Adele are still far ahead of Taylor in album equivalents here.

 

Rihanna and Whitney probably have higher totals too. 

[chiliam]

Wait, how can she snatch Rin wig in the UK. Rin singles are massive in the Uk

[Johnny Jacobs]

55 minutes ago, Breakdown said:

I can't put in words how much he disgusts me, this spawn of satan

Top far sis. 

 

[adylovestaylorandjb]

We love local queen of uk

[CaptainMusic]

20 minutes ago, chiliam said:

Wait, how can she snatch Rin wig in the UK. Rin singles are massive in the Uk

Because Taylor’s peak is in the streaming era where it’s easier to accumulate units for singles and album tracks

 

Madonna and Rihanna are clearly the biggest female singles artists in the UK, chart peaks and year end charts better reflect this.

 

That said, Taylor is still growing and is indeed MASSIVE here, no one is on her level right now. 

[Rihannito]

Congratulations it only took her 2626748 albums released, 1263646 alternative versions. 

Edited November 4, 2023 by Rihannito

[WildHeart]

2 minutes ago, Rihannito said:

Congratulations it only took her 2626748 albums released, 1263646 alternative versions. 

No #7 peaking albums, we love the consistency 

Edited November 4, 2023 by Artistofthedecade

[Rihannito]

7 minutes ago, Artistofthedecade said:

No #7 peaking albums, we love the consistency 

With another 173784847 versions released in the upcoming years, she might become the best selling artist in the galaxy. Yayy

 

Edit : I’d rather settle for a #7 peaking, risk taking album by my fave who didn’t give a **** if that could alienate her fanbase than to settle for a #1 album whom’s main subject is karma, cats and purring.

Edited November 4, 2023 by Rihannito

[WildHeart]

1 minute ago, Rihannito said:

With another 173784847 version released in the upcoming years, she might become the best selling artist in the galaxy. Yayy

We love seeing a hardworking musician win while her peers sell 173784847 different versions of lipstick 

[Rihannito]

1 minute ago, Artistofthedecade said:

We love seeing a hardworking musician win while her peers sell 173784847 different versions of lipstick 

We love seing musicians turned into BUSINESS MOGULS and going beyond their musical career, becoming multi billionaires and leaving #1s and positions for chart maniacs who’s brain is limited to being number one like a good student in school

[Popboi.]

4 hours ago, Rihannito said:

Congratulations it only took her 2626748 albums released, 1263646 alternative versions. 

Her singles have less versions than the #2, Rihanna, for example, ALBUM TRACKS Desperado, Pose, Consideration and Sex With Me all having more remixes than singles Karma or Lavender Haze.

 

And no, having that many albums doesn’t influence much as you suggest, when this is about singles sales and the likes of evermore and folklore only had 1 single each, while, again the #2 female Rihanna, had more singles off of Anti than Taylor has had from her past 3 albums and 3 re-records combined - and this is a demure amount of singles of an album for Rih.

Edited November 4, 2023 by Popboi.

[Popboi.]

Just now, Rihannito said:

We love seing musicians turned into BUSINESS MOGULS and going beyond their musical career, becoming multi billionaires and leaving #1s and positions for chart maniacs who’s brain is limited to being number one like a good student in school

Yet here you are talking about HER #1s and her chart positions, and she is the maniac?

[iam1925]

Biggest female artist of all time confirmed 

[FENTY.]

How come Taylor doesn’t have more certifications? Isn’t it automatically certified there?

[KOMH]

28 minutes ago, Artistofthedecade said:

No #7 peaking albums, we love the consistency 

No EMPTi stadiums in Wembley either

 

OT: Only THE hitmaker of this century

[GoodGuyGoneGhetto]

1 hour ago, CaptainMusic said:

Umm I’m pretty sure Madonna and Adele are still far ahead of Taylor in album equivalents here.

 

Rihanna and Whitney probably have higher totals too. 

Madonna, Rihanna and Adele are still far ahead in the UK.
 

Madonna and Rihanna are still the #1 best selling female artists in the U.K overall (singles + albums in units & certifications) followed by Adele. 
 

Swift doesn’t even have an album/era that has outsold GGGB or LOUD in the UK, let alone The Immaculate Collection, 21 or 25. 
 

What is even the source for this post?
 

Edited November 4, 2023 by GoodGuyGoneGhetto

[GoodGuyGoneGhetto]

5 minutes ago, FENTY. said:

1) How come Taylor doesn’t have more certifications? 2) Isn’t it automatically certified there?

1) Exactly.

 

2) It is. 

[Raspberries]

37 minutes ago, Rihannito said:

Congratulations it only took her 2626748 albums released, 1263646 alternative versions. 

Rihanna spammed nearly 40 singles in a 5 year period  Sit it out

[Feanor]

3 minutes ago, GoodGuyGoneGhetto said:

 What is even the source for this post?
 

It's Music Week, which is a highly-regarded trade publication for the UK music industry, which post regular chart analyses and breakdowns of the UK charts with official numbers, like the ones in the OP.

[Popboi.]

12 minutes ago, GoodGuyGoneGhetto said:

Madonna, Rihanna and Adele are still far ahead in the UK.
 

Madonna and Rihanna are still the #1 best selling female artists in the U.K overall (singles + albums in units & certifications) followed by Adele. 
 

Swift doesn’t even have an album that has outsold GGGB or LOUD in the UK, let alone The Immaculate Collection, 21 or 25. 
 

What is even the source for this post?
 

Music Week, so Official Charts themselves publishing data on a subscribers system.

 

 

16 minutes ago, FENTY. said:

How come Taylor doesn’t have more certifications? Isn’t it automatically certified there?

Because one thing is certifications, the other the sheer amount of units. Going by certifications there’s an inevitable huge missing sales:

 

A single selling 1 million = 600k in certification.

Selling 2.3 million = 1.8 million in certification.

A single selling 199,999 copies = 0 in certification.

 

 

At current pace she will pass Rihanna’s album units next year too.

Edited November 4, 2023 by Popboi.