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Post by Admin on Jan 8, 2015 3:30:17 GMT
Taylor Swift's 1989 rings in the new year at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, spending an eighth non-consecutive week at the top. It is now her longest-running No. 1 album since her second release, Fearless, racked up 11 nonconsecutive No. 1 frames in 2008 and 2009. She also topped the list with Speak Now (six weeks in 2010 and 2011) and Red (seven weeks in 2012 and 2013). 1989 sold 244,000 equivalent units (down 43 percent) in the week ending Jan. 4, according to Nielsen Music. (The Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums [TEA] and streaming equivalent albums [SEA].) Swift's 1989 also leads the Top Album Sales chart, selling 172,000 copies (down 47 percent). It's ahead of the Sales chart's runner-up set, the soundtrack to Guardians of the Galaxy, by more than 100,000 copies. (More on that in a moment.)
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Post by Admin on Jan 15, 2015 3:39:33 GMT
There's no stopping Taylor Swift, as the superstar notches a ninth week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with her 1989 album. 1989 sold 155,000 equivalent units in the week ending Jan. 11, according to Nielsen Music (down 36 percent). The Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Swift also easily leads the Top Album Sales chart, which ranks the best selling albums of the week based on pure album sales. 1989 sold 111,000 copies last week (down 35 percent). The set has now sold 3.94 million, and is on the verge of becoming Swift's fifth album to sell 4 million copies. (Each of her studio efforts have exceeded four million in U.S. sales.) Back on the new Billboard 200 chart, Ed Sheeran's x continues to climb, rising one position to No. 2 with 76,000 units (down 9 percent). Regular album sales comprise 34,000 of that figure (down 13 percent). This is the highest Billboard 200 rank for the set since its second week on the chart, when it fell 1-2 on the list dated July 19, 2014.
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Post by Admin on Jan 18, 2015 4:01:10 GMT
Evidently somebody forgot to tell Taylor Swift fans that albums just don’t sell anymore.Swift’s fifth studio album, 1989, is on track to top the 4 million mark in U.S. sales in this, its 12th week of release. It’ll be the first album to reach 4M in just 12 weeks since Usher's 2004 blockbuster Confessions. Swift’s achievement is more impressive than Usher’s because album sales overall were much stronger in 2004 than they are nowadays. Seventy albums sold 1 million or more copies in 2004, compared to just four in 2014. (Sadly, that’s not a typo.) Each of Swift’s four previous studio albums has also reached 4M.Swift will become just the second artist to top 4M with each of his or her first five studio albums since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking music sales in 1991. The first was Garth Brooks. (Brooks’s first two studio albums were released before the start of the Nielsen SoundScan era, but they have each sold more than 4M copies since the meters were turned on in January 1991.) 1989 sold 3,944,000 copies in the U.S. in its first 11 weeks. It is expected to sell in the 80K range this week, which will bump it up to about 4,024,000. Swift’s previous studio albums all took much longer to reach 4M in U.S. sales. Her debut album, Taylor Swift, took 125 weeks to reach the plateau. Her sophomore album, Fearless, took 50 weeks. Her third and fourth albums, Speak Now and Red, each took 69 weeks. And Swift is extremely adept at marketing and promotion. She is not only willing to do interviews and media and awards show appearances, she’s good at it and actually seems to enjoy it. Also, 1989 is Swift’s first focused pop album. Before this, she was trying to appeal to pop and country fans simultaneously. She was succeeding rather well, too, but she felt she could do even better if she would focus on just one field. “But at a certain point, if you chase two rabbits, you lose them both” is the way she put it to Rolling Stone's Josh Eels in a cover story last September.
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Post by Admin on Jan 23, 2015 6:14:00 GMT
According to final Soundscan data, the blockbuster album commanded a weekly sales total of 92,196. Enough for a #2 slot on the album sales chart behind Meghan Trainor’s “Title,” the weekly figure boosts the album’s cumulative sales mark to 4.036 million. While it did not rank as this past week’s best-selling album, Taylor Swift’s “1989” achieved something even more special. The singer-songwriter’s fifth studio album reached a cumulative US sales total in excess of 4 million. And it did so four times as quickly as any previous Swift release. Per Hits Daily Double, “1989” was purchased approximately 92,102 times during the week ending January 18. As a result, “1989” now claims a release-to-date sales total of roughly 4.04 million. Billboard’s more authoritative data will differ slightly from that reported by Hits, but the margin of error will not be enough to change the reality: Taylor Swift has sold more than 4 million US copies of “1989.” “1989,” which required only two months to register as 2014’s best-selling album, crossed the 4 million mark after only 12 weeks of release. The fastest to achieve the milestone since Usher’s “Confessions,” the album reached 4 million at a rate unrivaled by any of Swift’s previous four albums.
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Post by Admin on Jan 29, 2015 3:46:49 GMT
Former country-turned-pop singer Taylor Swift has trademarked her name and past albums before, but for the first time ever, she's trademarking phrases from her newest album “1989.” Those looking to use the phrases “This Sick Beat,” “Party Like It’s 1989,” “Cause We Never Go Out of Style,” “Could Show You Incredible Things” and “Nice to Meet You, Where You Been” will need Swift’s permission, now that she owns the rights to it. The trademarks cover everything from using them for clothing and accessories to kitchenware and non-medicated toiletries, so don’t expect a “This Sick Beat” shampoo to hit the aisles any time soon unless Swift has a hand - or in this case, hair - in it. Swifts new trademarks registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will now join her others such as the many variations of her name, whether the full signature or initials “T.S.” as well as albums “Speak Now” and “Fearless.” According to legal database Justia, Swift trademarked a number of phrases with the government to prohibit use of the lyrics on everything from paper products, printed products, printed publications, stickers and guitar straps. Even more obscure, the filings cover items such as removable tattoos, knitting implements, aprons and napkin holders. Some of the phrases the singer has trademarked include "This Sick Beat" from Shake It Off, "Could Show You Incredible Things" and "Nice To Meet You, Where You Been?" from Blank Space, as well as "Cause We Never Go Out Of Style" from her new single, Style.
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