other stats BB: Taylor holds historic 7 out of top 10 albums on Top Sales chart this week

[Carry My Heart]

Taylor Swift Has 7 of the Top 10 on Billboard’s Album Sales Chart

It's the first time one artist has held seven of the top 10 since the chart launched in 1991.

 

 

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Taylor Swift holds seven of the top 10 titles on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Jan. 6), marking the first time any act has concurrently claimed as many titles in the region since the chart launched in 1991. Previously, Swift held the record for the most concurrent albums in the top 10 on Top Album Sales, with six, on three separate weeks.

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Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) heads up the new Top Album Sales chart, holding at No. 1 with 61,000 pure copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 28 (down 36%). She’s also in the top 10 with Midnights (holding at No. 2 with 24,000 pure; down 44%), Lover (3-4 with 22,000 pure; down 28%), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (4-6 with 20,000 pure; down 31%), Evermore (12-7 with 17,000 pure; up 5%), Folklore (6-8 with 16,000 pure; down 38%) and Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (holding at No. 10 with 13,000 pure; down 29%).

Edited January 3 by Carry My Heart

[family.guy123]

Huge sales 

[Kasix]

She’s inching closer and closer to doing this on the all-format chart.

[Lemon]

Time for residents of units threads to flock this one too. 

[By the Water]

Evermore above folklore

 

[Klein]

The way no one comes anywhere close. 

 

evermore smashing we love to see it. 

[Cruel Summer]

Oh wow, and since the BB200 was pure sales before 2014, this is really an all-time record, very interesting 

[byzantium]

When was the last time someone did this? Surely the bestselling artists of all time Madonna and Rihanna have done it. 

[Into The Void]

3 minutes ago, byzantium said:

When was the last time someone did this? Surely the bestselling artists of all time Madonna and Rihanna have done it. 

Never

[1989]

Another day, another all time record. We love to see it! 

[Infinity]

Queen of Pop

[Trent W]

She’s slaying so much that it’s getting boring lol

 

Every day she breaks a new record, but it feels like a daily event instead of an historic one

[Taylena]

 

 

Huh, really? ...but some users here told me that 'Taylor is nothing without streaming farms'.

 

I don't understand anything. Could they be lying? 

 

 

[byzantium]

14 minutes ago, Insanity said:

Never

Hmm.  Interesting. 

[Michael196]

1991? didn't the chart launch at the end of 2014, since it was the BB200 before that?

 

ot. another day, another record, can she come up with something else??

also... evermore stomping without them bothering to stock the vinyl on her site this entire season 

[UseYourIllusion2002]

1 hour ago, byzantium said:

When was the last time someone did this? Surely the bestselling artists of all time Madonna and Rihanna have done it. 

Madonna always in your mouth with an Olivia avi  as if this was possible in the 80s or 90s

[byzantium]

12 minutes ago, UseYourIllusion2002 said:

Madonna always in your mouth with an Olivia avi  as if this was possible in the 80s or 90s

Ma’am, she is the queen of pop and this is a pop culture forum.  Of course people are going to be talking about her.  And since when is context of market circumstances something that ATRL factors?  Don’t you know ATRL is where reason comes to die? 

[Cruel Summer]

1 hour ago, Michael196 said:

1991? didn't the chart launch at the end of 2014, since it was the BB200 before that?

I think this one included catalog sales while the BB200 didn’t at the time, or something like that. Or, this chart is somehow the Luminate/Soundscan era BB200 until December 2014, then its own thing after that.

[gagacasanova]

[UseYourIllusion2002]

37 minutes ago, byzantium said:

Ma’am, she is the queen of pop and this is a pop culture forum.  Of course people are going to be talking about her.  And since when is context of market circumstances something that ATRL factors?  Don’t you know ATRL is where reason comes to die? 

Yes very true, let me stop before I become the Stevvy of the medonsters 

23 minutes ago, Cruel Summer said:

I think this one included catalog sales while the BB200 didn’t at the time, or something like that. Or, this chart is somehow the Luminate/Soundscan era BB200 until December 2014, then its own thing after that.

Yeah it's definitely the second half. But from 1991-2009 catalog sales and exclusive albums weren't included so even then the BB200 didn't accurately reflect the "Top Album Sales" of a week. But starting in 2003 they started the Top Comprehensive Albums Chart that was basically the current Top Album Sales chart since it included catalog albums and exclusives. It was basically identical except for 20-30 positions.

[Arrows]

1 hour ago, UseYourIllusion2002 said:

as if this was possible in the 80s or 90s

You think selling lots and lots of pure album copies was less possible in the 80’s and 90’s? You’re in for a big surprise then!

[UseYourIllusion2002]

1 hour ago, Arrows said:

You think selling lots and lots of pure album copies was less possible in the 80’s and 90’s? You’re in for a big surprise then!

I'm clearly talking about chart positions. In the 90s during the holiday season, the entire top 30 of the Billboard 200 would sell 100,000 copes. No 17 year old album, today or even back then, is going to sell that quantity unless the artist dies or an anniversary edition is released. Also albums are available to be streamed 24/7 and can constantly be bought online. No record store in the 90s was going to have an artist's whole discography stocked. Not taking anything away from Taylor, but it's obviously going to be easier today when you're an artist of her status.