other stats Billboard: 6% of all albums sold in 2023 were by Taylor Swift

[Carry My Heart]

Per Billboard's newly published 2023 year-end report:

 

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Swift sold more albums in 2023 than any other act, accounting for 6% of all albums sold, industry-wide.

[B-Luke]

Make it 10 for 2024

 

[superben]

Billboard, so this is in the US.

 

I guess the percentage would be a little bit lower counting WW as some K-pop acts have crazy album sales.

[Saintlor]

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6% of the music industry in America

 

 

Edited January 10 by Saintlor

[Maroonx]

wow thats insane, good for Taylor x

[Lemon]

People only caring for pure sales when it comes to artists they don’t like because said artists are also big streamers, would be faced with even bigger shock in Taylor’s case. 

[Lemon]

31 minutes ago, Saintlor said:

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6% of the music industry in America

 

 

 

Yeah, sure, because doing this in the biggest market somehow minimises the achievement itself. 

[dejmieeen]

Not bad for a mediocre artist. 

[Kevin Parker]

Imagine if she made her own label or creative team to help other artists reach stardom. She would do amazingly.

[Taylena]

1 hour ago, superben said:

I guess the percentage would be a little bit lower counting WW as some K-pop acts have crazy album sales.

Probably not. There's like around 10 k-pop groups with good sales (1M+ average per album) and some Japanese artists selling substantially well, but then album sales are pretty much non-existent in other countries. 

[AmericanIdol]

Its crazy to think that Taylor Swift has released 7 albums since Katy released her last one

 

Good for her.

[Badgalbriel]

27 minutes ago, AmericanIdol said:

Its crazy to think that Taylor Swift has released 7 albums since Katy released her last one

 

Good for her.

Evermore and Midnights? 

[liam13]

28 minutes ago, AmericanIdol said:

Its crazy to think that Taylor Swift has released 7 albums since Katy released her last one

 

Good for her.

and it’s crazy to think that any of those 7 albums outsold all of Katy’s albums in the last 7 years 

 

Good for her.

Edited January 10 by liam13

[Mr. Duff]

This is just a given now, but still massively impressive. Great job, Taylor!

[Feanor]

6.2M albums sold is just insanity.

[Sad Serenade]

an album seller 

[Cruel Summer]

Interestingly, Billboard posted an article just now indicating that she was 1.79% of all consumption across all metrics. That compared to this number shows that even in the biggest year anyone has had in the Luminate era, even at the peak of her career a decade after the streaming era started to take over, and even as she’s been the #1 most-streamed artist in the world for most days out of the whole year - she’s still significantly stronger in pure sales than anything else, relatively speaking. That’s pretty incredible as a testament to her help in keeping pure sales alive. The vinyl numbers also clearly show that she’s been a massive force in the resurgence of that entire format, and the CD numbers make it clear that she’s the last line of defense for that format.

 

Speaking in a strictly commercial sense, this might be the most consequential any individual artist has ever been for the industry as the lifeline of entire recording formats.

[1989]

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