Taylor Swift's latest album "1989" has sold 1.287 million copies right on its first week. It is the first and only album in 2014 that went straight to platinum.
But the record-breaking does not end there. The first week's sales performance of "1989" is also the biggest for any album in the last 12 years.
MSN News reports that the sales performance of Taylor Swift's latest album has put "1989" on the third spot of the all-time first week sales record.
It comes next only to "The Eminem Show" released in 2002, with 1.322 million copies sold, and Britney Spears' "Oops! ... I Did it Again" album released in 2000, with 1.319 million units moved.
The official result came from Nielsen SoundScan with its November 6 bulletin detailing sales of the album from October 27 to November 2, notes Mashable.
"1989" marks the first foray of Taylor Swift into pop music, from her humble beginnings as a country singer. But she is no longer new to earning platinum status for her album. Her previous two albums already did that.
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And if there's one record she can call her own, it's the fact that Taylor Swift is the only music artist in history to sell one million copies in a single week over three different albums, cites MSN News.
Two years ago, her album "Red" sold 1.208 million copies on its first week. And two years before that, her "Speak Now" compilation moved 1.047 million copies on its first week.
Mashable has a bit of wider history when it mentioned that "1989" is the 19th album in the 23-year history of Nielsen SoundScan to log one million copies sold within a week. Nielsen SoundScan was established in 1991.
Obviously, Taylor Swift now owns three of those 19 albums in the prestigious Nielsen SoundScan list.
On Saturday, Swift removed her songs and album from the popular music streaming platform Spotify.
Without really stating directly her reason for doing so, the removal came just days after Spotify publicly criticized the 24-year-old singer for her hesitance to make her latest album available for streaming on the site, details Mashable in another report.
In an October 16 report, Forbes said that not a single artist's album has gone platinum in 2014. "Not one has managed to cross that one million sales mark," it stated.
The report added however that there is one album this year that was able to move over one million copies but it's a soundtrack. Forbes was referring to the widely-popular "Frozen" soundtrack which had the young and the old liking it almost over and over again.
With the official Nielsen SoundScan bulletin already out, it looks like Forbes has to make an update article about it.