Country starlet Taylor Swift has broken sales records in the United States this week with her brand new album ‘Speak Now’. While Sony Music Australia hopes to spoil her party locally by rush-releasing both Susan Boyle and Jessica Mauboy albums into stores early, in the US there was no stopping her, as she sold in excess of one million copies of her new LP in just one week.
With 1,046,718 copies sold in its first week on sale, ‘Speak Now’ has achieved the highest single week sales since 2005 and accounted for a staggering 18% of all albums sold in the US this week.
It’s also only the 16th album in (Soundscan) history to sell more than one million copies in a debut week and also broke the digital sales record, with an incredible 278,000 digital copies of ‘Speak Now’ included in the final tally.
A stunning result whichever way you look at it.
‘Speak Now’ is out now in standard and deluxe editions locally.
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auspOp says
Hey Arlen,
According to Sony, both Susan and Jess’s albums were due to be rush-released into stores on Monday four days earlier than originally scheduled. Due to apparent stock issues, they emerged on-shelves on Wednesday, two days before their official release date.
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Arlen says
Jess Mauboy and Susan Boyle were NOT rush released. They only hit stores yesterday which is normal for any sales week. New releases often hit stores on a Wednesday or Thursday.
Whoever said it was to try and foil Taylor Swiftfrom getting to #1 was just making it up. She’s had a whole week of sales compared to 2 days for the other two.
auspOp says
Hey Anonymous,
Sony have only released Jessica physically at this stage, not digitally just yet. That’ll happen on Friday as scheduled.
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Anonymous says
Jessia Mauboy’s album isn’t on iTunes yet and Swift is sitting at #2 and #7 at the moment. Are digital album sales really low are they? Otherwise how could they think they could possibly keep her from a #1?