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Post by Admin on Jan 30, 2015 3:29:12 GMT
After a two-week vacation from the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200, it appears Taylor Swift's 1989 is heading back to the top of the chart. While it's too early to project how many units the album will earn in the week ending Feb. 1, industry sources seem confident that nothing will challenge 1989's return to No. 1. It would mark 1989's 10th week at No. 1. The top 10 of the new Billboard 200 chart will be revealed on Wednesday, Feb. 4. It's not that often an album racks up 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It's only happened 11 times since Nielsen Music began powering the chart with its point-of-sale data back on the chart dated May 25, 1991. And, in that span of time, only four women have logged 10 or more weeks at No. 1 with an album: Adele (21, 24 weeks), Whitney Houston (The Bodyguard soundtrack, 20 weeks), Alanis Morissette (Jagged Little Pill, 12 weeks) and Swift herself (Fearless, 11 weeks). Next week's highest debut looks to be Ne-Yo's Non-Fiction, which may start with around 35,000 in overall album equivalent units. That sum might place the set toward the bottom of the top 10.
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Post by Admin on Feb 5, 2015 3:41:19 GMT
Taylor Swift's 1989 album returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for a milestone 10th nonconsecutive week, making Swift just the second woman in history to earn two albums with at least 10 weeks atop the list. Swift previously logged 11 weeks at No. 1 with her second album, Fearless, in 2008 and 2009. (She has two further No. 1s: Speak Now, with six weeks at No. 1, and Red, with seven weeks in the penthouse.) 1989 steps back to No. 1 (rising 2-1) with 101,000 equivalent album units earned (down 15 percent) in the week ending Feb. 1, according to Nielsen Music. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Swift follows Whitney Houston as the only woman with multiple albums with 10 weeks at No. 1. Houston managed the feat three times: with her self-titled debut (14 weeks in 1986), her second album, Whitney (11 weeks in 1987) and The Bodyguard soundtrack (20 weeks in 1992 and 1993). 1989's climb back to the top was powered by 71,000 in pure album sales (down 13 percent). The set also spends a 10th week at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart. This is the first time the top selling album of the week has dipped below 100,000 copies since last September, when Lecrae's Anomaly bowed atop the chart with 88,000 sold in the week ending Sept. 14, 2014. 1989's latest sales frame is the lowest for the week's top seller since the week of July 13, 2014, when Sia's 1000 Forms of Fear launched at No. 1 with 52,000. Below Smith is the only debut in the top 10, and it comes from another man named Smith: Ne-Yo (whose birth name is Shaffer Smith). Ne-Yo's Non-Fiction opens at No. 5 with 59,000 units, with 82 percent of its total coming from traditional album sales. Non-Fiction is Ne-Yo's sixth consecutive top 10 album in as many tries. Ne-Yo's hot streak began with his debut album, In My Own Words, which bowed at No. 1 in 2006. He followed it up with Because of You (No. 1 in 2007), Year of the Gentleman (No. 2, 2008), Libra Scale (No. 9, 2010), R.E.D. (No. 4, 2012) and now Non-Fiction (No. 5).
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Post by Admin on Feb 8, 2015 4:09:57 GMT
Taylor Swift's 2014 release "1989" was the best-selling album in America last year, moving more than 4 million copies. It just spent its 10th week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and it's hard to turn on the radio without hearing Swift's pop-fueled latest release. But "1989" is not nominated for any award at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards Sunday night. Here's why: The eligibility period for the 2015 Grammys was from Oct. 1, 2013 to Sept. 30, 2014. "1989" was released Oct. 27, 2014, making it ineligible this year. The album will be in contention at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards in 2016. The album's lead single, "Shake It Off," however, is nominated for several awards, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year. That track was released Aug. 18, making it eligible for this year's awards. As for "1989," it will have to wait until next year, as will the album's other chart-topping hit, "Blank Space," released as a single Nov. 10. From a business standpoint, the release schedule for the album is brilliant. Swift all but guarantees two years' worth of nominations with a single in the running this year and the entire album eligible in 2016. Not only does Ms. Swift earn a place at two awards shows, her album sales will benefit. Nominated artists regularly see a boost in sales during Grammys season. If (when) "1989" receives a nomination for 2016, the album will be thrust back into the spotlight and get another healthy bump in sales. And let's be honest, it wouldn't be an awards show without at least two dozen shots of Swift reacting to something.
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2015 3:39:47 GMT
One week after setting chart history by joining an elite club where only Whitney Houston was the only other female member, Taylor Swift continued her Billboard 200 reign as her 1989 stayed at Number One for an 11th non-consecutive week. Swift's fifth LP sold another 108,000 units in its 15th week on the charts. Since its release 15 weeks ago, 1989 has topped the charts 11 times and finished Number Two four times, according to Billboard. Even after nearly four months, Swift won't drop out of the top two. Considering hers was the only album to sell over 100,000 copies last week, it doesn't seem like she'll be departing the upper echelon of the Billboard 200 anytime soon. Only four albums since 2000 have spent over 10 weeks at Number One: Adele's 21, the Frozen soundtrack, and Swift's Fearless and 1989. As for this week's debuts, Now 53 entered the charts at Number Two with 99,000 copies sold and Fifth Harmony's Reflection bowed in at Number Five. Bob Dylan's Shadows in the Night, his collection of Frank Sinatra standards, debuted at Number Seven with 50,000 copies. That's a vast improvement over Dylan's last covers album Christmas in the Heart, which peaked at Number 23 on the Billboard 200 in 2009. It's important to note that, since the Grammys aired Sunday night, this week's Billboard 200 only reflect the Monday of the post-Grammy sales surge. So even though Sam Smith dominated the awards show, picking up four awards including Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year, the singer's In the Lonely Hour still just clung to the Number Four spot for the second straight week. However, the Grammy wins helped boost sales of Smith's debut LP 44 percent over his pre-Grammy sales.
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Post by Admin on Mar 14, 2015 3:28:19 GMT
After just 19 weeks of release, Taylor Swift's 1989 has now outsold both of her last two albums. (It seems the pop music thing is working out just fine for the diva, eh? 1989 is her first all-pop album after four country sets.) 1989 sold another 44,000 copies in the week ending March 8, according to Nielsen Music, lifting the title's total sales to 4.505 million. 1989 already surpassed the sales of Swift's last album, 2012's Red (4.160 million after 124 weeks), a few weeks ago, while 1989 now jumps past her earlier album, 2010's Speak Now (4.480 million after 228 weeks) in the latest tracking week. 1989 was the top selling album of 2014 (3.661 million sold that year) and remains the top seller of 2015 so far (844,000). It famously debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 1.287 million sold in its first week. Selling millions of albums is nothing new for Swift, of course. The new twist to her sales story is 1989's sales rate. In merely 19 weeks, it has surpassed the sales of what was her third-biggest seller, which has been on sale for 228 weeks. Next up on Swift's personal hit list: her self-titled 2006 debut (5.492 million) and her biggest seller, 2008's Fearless (6.909 million). For those keeping score, Swift's cumulative album sales (including her five her studio efforts, and other assorted live sets, EPs, etc.) now stand at 27.67 million. In terms of album sales, she is the seventh-largest selling female artist since Nielsen began tracking sales in 1991.
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