NEW YORK (AP) -- Taylor Swift fans have spoken -- more than a million times.
The country-pop superstar sold more than 1 million copies of her new album "Speak Now," to debut at the top of the Billboard album chart this week.
Billboard.com said Wednesday that it's the biggest debut since 50 Cent's "The Massacre" five years ago.
With 1,046,718 copies sold in the US in the first week of release, Taylor Swift’s Speak Now album has scored SoundScan’s biggest single-week sales total since 2005 and is the biggest debuting country studio album in history.
"What she did now, maybe it's the equivalent of selling 2 million records, or even more, a half a dozen years ago," he said. "It's an incredulous accomplishment."
Speak Now reached the iTunes #1 album position (all genres) within an hour of its release on October 25th, and the album’s lead single, “Mine,” is now Taylor’s sixth #1 hit, jumping from #5 to #1 at Country radio this week. “Mine” has reached #11 at Top 40 radio and is Top 5 at A/C and Top 10 at Hot A/C. The video for "Mine" is in its 10th week at #1 on CMT, and has also reached #1 at GAC, MTV and VH1.
"Speak Now" is 20-year-old Swift's third album.
"Everybody has worked so hard on this full release, and it's truly been magical the last couple of weeks," he said in an interview Tuesday.
Taylor Swift new album "Speak Now" sales reach more than 1M copies.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
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