US: 'TTPD' reaches 6M units in ~7 months → becomes Taylor's 10th (!) album to do so

[Feanor]

 

 

It was at 5.980M units as of last week and with this week's sales of 42k units, Taylor Swift's 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT' now has officially sold over 6M album units in the USA.

 

It reaches this threshold in just 30 weeks since its release, or about 7 months.

It outpaces her previous studio album 'Midnights' by quite a bit, as that took just about 1 year to reach the same milestone.

 

This also marks Taylor Swift's 10th album to reach 6M+ units in the US. All her studio albums except 'evermore' have done it.

 

[Bloodflowers.]

Thank you Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus

[TayDuaStan]

Thank you The Manuscript 

[Gelato]

Thank you Aimee

[wastedpotential]

Thank you Fresh Out The Scripture 

[byzantium]

How many artists have 10 different albums with over 6m units?  It has to be a very small group.  

[Taylor fanboy]

Thank you Robin

[RobynYoBank]

1 minute ago, byzantium said:

How many artists have 10 different albums with over 6m units?  It has to be a very small group.  

It looks like none of The Beatles, Mariah, or Garth has done it, so probably no one.

[Popboi.]

5 minutes ago, byzantium said:

How many artists have 10 different albums with over 6m units?  It has to be a very small group.  

Seems like it, Eminem has 9 counting his first GH and soundtrack.

[SharGaga]

Totally unrelated but I need TS12 to be country so bad. I wanna experience country Tay since becoming a stan in 2014.

[Cruel Summer]

Taylor smashing this hard 11 albums in, plenty more units on the way with the physical release of the Anthology - her commercial status is just so insane 

[Michael196]

Update from last month:

 

On 10/24/2024 at 2:19 PM, Maroonx said:

Taylor's album sales in the US (total units; via. Luminate):

1989, 14.41M
Fearless, 11.66M
Red, 9.17M
Speak Now, 8.61M
Taylor Swift, 8.58M
Lover, 8.06M
reputation, 7.75M
Midnights, 7.74M
folklore, 6.69M
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, 5.85M
Red (Taylor's Version), 4.86M
1989 (Taylor's Version), 4.28M
evermore, 4.09M
Fearless (Taylor's Version), 2.88M
Speak Now (Taylor's Version), 2.48M
Holiday Collection, 1.72M
Beautiful Eyes - EP, 740K
Speak Now World Tour - Live, 380K
Remaining: 200K

Total: 110.2M

 

[byzantium]

10 minutes ago, RobynYoBank said:

It looks like none of The Beatles, Mariah, or Garth has done it, so probably no one.

Oh neither the Beatles or Garth?  Yeah, then this is something probably never done before.  Wow.  

[IBeMe]

incredible! and then the physicals release of The Anthology will help it get to 7M in no time! cant wait for end of november to get it

[fridayteenage]

But no impact! No one likes it! That YouTuber didn't like it!

[By the Water]

Not bad for an album only known by swifties 

[aotearoa]

Thank you  Smash As Sin 

[Gladiator]

"Curse those Swifties buying all those variants!"

[Letters From Adi]

I believe RIAA counts Anthology physicals as a separate disc, so it should be certified higher. How close is it to reaching Diamond?

[stevyy]

4 hours ago, RobynYoBank said:

It looks like none of The Beatles, Mariah, or Garth has done it, so probably no one.

Merrier Carey has 6: 

 

1990 = sales 

1993 = sales 

1994 = sales + streaming (5,8m sales tho)

1995 = sales 

1998 = sales + streaming (5,0m sales tho)

2005 = sales 

 

different times, different metrics. 

[Mezik]

Thank you The Albatross.

[Bill_NewRomantiks]

Not bad for a hitless and fan-cared only album