Taylor Swift "1989" album may be hard to beat given the album sales has already reached more than 750,000 this year alone. The latest reports reveal that Swift's latest album has been the best-selling album of 2015. Swift joins the Billboard 200 Top Five.
The year 2015 saw a lot of popular and not to mention successful album releases. While there has been a few recent releases from Drake and Imagine Dragons, Taylor Swift's "1989" album remains to be 2015 best-selling album.
Taylor Swift's "1989" album debuted back in Oct. 2014, but the album remains to be one of the best this 2015. There has already been a recorded sale of 753,000 copies in the United States alone. Around 57,000 copies had been sold during the tracking week by Billboard and Soundscan.
As for Billboard's recent poll, Taylor Swift's "1989" album makes it to their Billboard 200 Top 10, with Swift ranking at number four. The top 10 list is as follows.
1. Imagine Dragons - "Smoke + Mirrors" - 195,000
2. Drake - "If You're Reading This It's Too Late" - 187,000
3. "Fifty Shades of Grey" Soundtrack - 165,000
4. Taylor Swift - "1989" - 93,000
5. Ed Sheeran - "X" - 81,000
6. Sam Smith - "In the Lonely Hour" - 72,000
7. Maroon 5 - "V" - 47,000
8. Meghan Trainor - "Title" - 44,000
9. Nicki Minaj - "The Pinkprint" - 41,000
10. Hozier - "Hozier" - 40,000
According to Forbes, Taylor Swift's "1989" has already spent a historic tenth week at the number one spot. Swift along with the late Whitney Houston are the only two women who managed to have more than one of their album spend ten weeks in the number one spot. Even with "1989" being released more than a few months ago, the sales have been going nowhere but up. To say the least, Taylor has sold more than four million copies for just one of her titles.
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