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What is Taylor Swift’s best-selling album, is perhaps the question that revolves around every music lover’s mind. Many would come up with a variety of names since this versatile singer and songwriter has dropped a total of 10 albums till now along with two re-recording releases that are buzzing in the top charts as well as the music industry.
In her prolific musical career, Taylor Swift has sold over 70,075,475 album units worldwide. The number also includes 50,951,000 units that are solely sold over the United States only. Similarly, her albums sold over 3,819,00 units in total in the United Kingdom. With a such huge amount of selling records, Taylor Swift became the pop idol of the music industry with a humongous global fan base who are known as ‘Swifties’. No to mention, the artist is quite grateful to her fans who helped her become the best-selling music artist in the industry.
The musical journey began in 2006 with her name-sake debut album ‘Taylor Swift’ which was released in 2006. After that, the singer released 9 more albums along with the current release ‘Midnights’ which was released this year. Though, most of the albums have created much buzz in the industry both musically and economically; the best-selling album of Taylor Swift is ‘1989’.
1989: The Rebirth
‘1989’ has been released in 2014 and it proves to be the best-selling music album by Swift. The album has sold over 14,332,116 copies worldwide and ranked no.1 in all the top charts of that year. The popularity of this musical album influenced the next years as well since it was ranking at no. 4 on the best-selling album charts for 2010’s albums.
This is the fifth studio album by the singer that was released under the label Big Machine Records. This album is a major milestone in her career since it was an answer to the critics who questioned her presence as a country music singer. Swift has always been inspired by various kinds of musical styles and offered a fair portion of experimentation through a musical approach. Other than intriguing writing style and subject matter, this album marks the shift of this artist from country to pop.
The album is quite inspired by 1980s synth-pop and offered an upbeat groove for the Swifties to enjoy. The fans were quite happy with the transition and perhaps that is what made this album a best-seller. The title of the track holds a lot of significance as well since it is the birth year of Taylor Swift (December 13, 1989). The title was chosen to reflect the symbolic artistic rebirth of Taylor Swift with a change in musical style.
This album was certified ninefold platinum which broke all the top charts. This multi-platinum album offered listeners a total of 13 tracks and 3 more bonus tracks in the Deluxe Edition.
Other best-selling albums
Most albums by Taylor Swift are best-selling pieces in the music industry thorough the considerable years of almost two decades. However, when it comes to her own musical arsenal; the artist has made some remarkable sales records in the early years. Such as,
1. Fearless (2008) – 11,901,000 units
2. Red (2012) – 8,819,124 units
3. Taylor Swift (2006) – 7,270,000 units
4. Speak Now (2010) – 6,917,500 units
5. Reputation (2017) – 5,746,523 units
The current best-seller
It is a great year for the fans as Taylor Swift has dropped an all-new album this year, titled ‘Midnights’. The album has been released on October 21 via Republic Records and it already made a huge rise in sales. The album have released after ‘Folklore’ in 2020 and it is holding a lot of anticipation.
‘Midnights’ is turning out to be the top-selling album of this year 2022 which is earning massive respect and love from the fans as well as fellow music artists in the industry. The album is making history by breaking all the records on Spotify on its first release. Along with seven bonus tracks, the album has already sold over million copies in its first week of release. Based on the sales on the first day, the experts have already predicted that the album could swell up to 1-1.2 million copies in week one.
According to the initial reports, the album sold more than 800,000 copies in only the United States. It is sold through all available formats such as digital album download, CD, vinyl as well as cassette variants. No artist has made this achievement before other than Swift. Her last score-setling album was ‘Reputation’ which was released in 2017.
‘Midnights’ has already set the largest sales record in the music industry in a week for any album released since 2017. In this modern era of 2022, the album also made the record for single-week vinyl album sales.
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