Her new CD, "Speak Now" is number one on the charts selling 1,046,718 units in its first week. This is a dominating number as by comparison the number two artist this week was Sugarland whose album, “Incredible Machine,” sold 88,575 units – 958,143 units below Taylor. Rounding out the top ten was Michael Buble’s “Hollywood,” with 25,771 units sold. You do the math on that one.
Speak Now is officially the fastest-selling album in half a decade, beating out rapper Lil Wayne’s 2008 release "Tha Carter III," the last album to reach the one million mark in its debut week. Swift also posted the best initial-week figure since 2005 when rapper 50 Cent sold 1,141,000 copies of his album "The Massacre" in March 2005.
But wait, there’s more… "Speak Now" ranked as the biggest opening week for a female artist in more than a decade, since Britney Spears' "Oops! I Did It Again" sold 1,319,000 in 2000. The new album is also number one on the Digital Album chart with 277,977 units downloaded (the second best digital debut of all-time) and, of course, the #1 Top Current Country Album.
The first-week sales record still belongs to *NSYNC's release "No Strings Attached," in 2000, which sold 2.4 million copies in its first week.
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