Get 'em next time Taylor! Still huge regardless. Wonder if Adele's next release could pose a threat for Brit's record.

Get 'em next time Taylor! Still huge regardless.

I hope so!

Wonder if Adele's next release could pose a threat for Brit's record.

I wonder that too and that's the next album I'm eagerly anticipating....not because of her music but because of sales charts. I don't remember if Adele has had any 1 million first week sales though. Both her albums did well over time.

She has not but she has the only album to go diamond in the US in this decade. Sales stand at about 12 million. With her higher profile now and a strong lead single she could have some huge potential numbers.

Edited November 5, 201411 yr by Eric83

Yeah, and Adele only really blew up with her 21 album. Despite Taylor's strong front-loaded sales, she's never manged to come close to getting a diamond album (and likely Adele will the last person to ever achieve that feat). Adele is also a bigger global star/seller.

I think an album that sells consistently well over time is much more impressive than front-loaded first week sales. An album that sells well over time is just an extremely rare case these days.

^^ Agreed.

The most impressive thing about Taylor's sales is how many are physical CD's.

Also, I know places and blank space are the best. I am obsessed.

Taylor talks about taking taking her music off Spotify: https://music.yahoo.com/blogs/music-news/exclusive--taylor-swift-on-being-pop-s-instantly-platinum-wonder----and-why-she-s-paddling-against-the-streams-085041907.html

That leads to the streaming question. We've played the game of wondering whether you would have sold hundreds of thousands of fewer copies last week if the album had been available to people for free via those services. To a lot of people, you're a hero for reinforcing that music still has a value. And then there are some people who think you're standing in the way of progress by not giving in to the streaming model. What are your thoughts on all that?

If I had streamed the new album, it's impossible to try to speculate what would have happened. But all I can say is that music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. And I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment that I don't feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music. And I just don't agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free. I wrote an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal this summer that basically portrayed my views on this. I try to stay really open-minded about things, because I do think it's important to be a part of progress. But I think it's really still up for debate whether this is actual progress, or whether this is taking the word "music" out of the music industry. Also, a lot of people were suggesting to me that I try putting new music on Spotify with "Shake It Off," and so I was open-minded about it. I thought, "I will try this; I'll see how it feels." It didn't feel right to me. I felt like I was saying to my fans, "If you create music someday, if you create a painting someday, someone can just walk into a museum, take it off the wall, rip off a corner off it, and it's theirs now and they don't have to pay for it." I didn't like the perception that it was putting forth. And so I decided to change the way I was doing things.

I also like this part where she talks about maintaining her relationship with her fans:

People always talk to you about marriages and relationships, and they say relationships take work, and you have to keep surprising each other. And that I think the most profound relationship I've ever had has been with my fans. That relationship takes work, and you have to continue to think of new ways to delight and surprise them. You can't just assume that because they liked one of your albums, they're going to like the new one, so you can make it exactly the same as you made the last one. You can't just assume that because they were gracious enough to make you a part of their life last year, that they're gonna want to do the same thing this year. I think that core relationship needs to be nurtured. And so there were a lot of things that were brand-new to my career, to my life, and to I guess what you would call the campaign of this album — things we'd never even tried before, but they just felt right because it felt like nurturing that relationship.

The most impressive thing about Taylor's sales is how many are physical CD's.

She sold more at Target alone than Coldplay did everywhere. 474,000 to 383,000.

Chart from The Roadmap to Taylor Swift's Record-Breaking Week in 6 (Not So Easy) Steps

Another cool stat: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/11/04/taylor-swift-first-week-million-sales/18480613/

Only 18 albums have sold a million copies in a week previously. Swift fell just shy of the 1.319 million copies Britney Spears sold of Oops! ... I Did It Again in 2000, the most ever by a female act. That week, Oops! accounted for 8% of total album sales.

The week Red came out, it accounted for nearly one out of every five albums sold. With 1989, Swift's percentage is even higher, grasping 22% of the total album sales for the week.

"I don't think I've ever seen anything be that high a share of the total market all by itself," Nielsen SoundScan analyst David Bakula says.

Target had the extra songs which is why I think it sold more. Surprised Amazon, WalMart and Best Buy weren't higher.

She sounds like an ungrateful little !@#$%^&*].

Ungrateful about what? What is Spotify doing for her and other artists who don't want their music on Spotify? The royalties payout is embarassing. Spotify should have a better model if they want those artists' content. They don't owe Spotify anything. For her or any other artist to be ungrateful, Spotify would have to be doing something in favour of them.

She's actually right. Making music is her job. That's the equivalent of me going to work and telling human resources "Oh you don't have to pay me!" LOL.

Her new video was released today.

That's definitely her best video. Glad to see her working with Joseph Khan now. Kudos to Taylor for the concept - it was fun and funny. And of course she looks great in the video! She's never had two songs on an album go #1, so hopefully this song will do that for her.

What Blank Space is about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz9wwyLjBb8

That video is awesome. I feel like Blank Space is going to be her biggest hit ever.