Country sensation Taylor Swift’s latest album, Speak Now, debuts at number one on the Billboard 200 this week with 1,047, 000 copies sold. Swift’s massive sales helped make last week the largest sales week for a new album since 50 Cent’s The Massacre, which sold 1,141,000 when it was released in March 2005. [Billboard.com]
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Detroit Free Press — Taylor Swift gives album sales a needed swift kick with Speak Now, which arrives at No. 1 in Billboard after selling 1.046 million copies, the highest one-week total sinc... more info
L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" album is officially the fastest-selling album in half a decade, logging 1,047,000 copies during its first week of release, according to Nielsen... more info
USA Today Music — Taylor Swift gives album sales a needed swift kick with Speak Now, which arrives at No. 1 in Billboard after selling 1.046 million copies, the ...
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Pop Crunch — Take that, Beliebers! Taylor Swift’s new album had the biggest opening week of any LP released within the last five years. The country-pop star sold 1,047,000 copies of... more info
Idolator — You could tell Taylor Swift’s Speak Now album was going to be big right out of the gate, given that Billboard had reported on projected first-week sales of around 800,0... more info
Topix — Taylor Swift fans have spoken - more than a million times. The country pop superstar sold more than 1 million copies of her new album, "Speak Now," to debut at the top of... more info
L.A. Times - Entertainment — The singer-songwriter achieves a mighty tough feat nowadays: 1-million-plus in first-week sales. Her personality and presence go a long way.In the fractured world that is... more info
Reuters — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country-pop singer Taylor Swift thanked her fans on Wednesday for buying more than one million copies of her new album "Speak Now", making it the ... more info
Allmusic Blog — Country sensation Taylor Swift’s latest album, Speak Now, debuts at number one on the Billboard 200 this week with 1,047, 000 copies sold. Swift’s massive sales helpe... more info
E! Online — In case you haven't figured it out, Taylor Swift is indeed one popular girl.
The country songbird sold more than 1 million copies of her latest album, Speak Now—the b... more info