{"id":3972,"date":"2023-11-05T20:10:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T20:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2023-11-05T20:10:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T20:10:36","slug":"taylor-swifts-1989-taylors-version-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-with-biggest-week-in-nearly-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3972","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2019s \u20181989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u2019 Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 with Biggest Week in Nearly a\u00a0Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<p>The re-recorded set bows with the largest week for any album in nearly eight years and Swift&#8217;s biggest sales week ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;blasts in at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;albums chart (dated Nov. 11), scoring the superstar her 13th No. 1 on the chart. The set debuts with 1.653 million equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 2, according to Luminate. That marks the largest week for any album, by units earned, since Adele\u2019s&nbsp;<em>25<\/em>&nbsp;launched with 3.482 million units earned in the week ending Nov. 25, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, of\u00a0<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>\u2019s first-week units, traditional album sales comprise 1.359 million of that sum \u2014 Swift\u2019s single-largest sales week for any of her albums. It surpasses her previous high, logged when the original\u00a0<em>1989<\/em>\u00a0album\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/official-taylor-swifts-1989-debuts-with-1287-million-sold-in\/\">debuted<\/a>\u00a0with 1.287 million sold in the week ending Nov. 2, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first-week sales of&nbsp;<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;are the largest for any album since Adele\u2019s&nbsp;<em>25<\/em>&nbsp;bowed with 3.378 million. In total, since Luminate began electronically tracking music sales in 1991, the debut of&nbsp;<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;marks the sixth-largest sales week for any album. The top six biggest weeks are (all in debut frames): Adele\u2019s&nbsp;<em>25<\/em>&nbsp;(3.378 million), *NSYNC\u2019s&nbsp;<em>No Strings Attached<\/em>&nbsp;(2.416 million, in 2000), *NSYNC\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Celebrity<\/em>&nbsp;(1.878 million, 2001), Eminem\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Marshall Mathers LP<\/em>&nbsp;(1.76 million, 2000), Backstreet Boys\u2019&nbsp;<em>Black &amp; Blue<\/em>&nbsp;(1.591 million, 2000) and&nbsp;<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;(1.359 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sales of<em>&nbsp;1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;were enhanced by its availability in 15 collectible physical formats: five color vinyl variants, eight CD editions and two cassette editions. Of the five vinyl variants, Target carries a color variant that includes one bonus track (\u201cSweeter Than Fiction\u201d). The album is also available to buy in two digital download editions: a standard 21-song version and a deluxe 22-song version (which adds a re-recorded version of the album\u2019s \u201cBad Blood,\u201d featuring Kendrick Lamar). (Notably, Swift did not offer an autographed edition of the new album to purchase, as she did in time for the first weeks of her last three No. 1s:&nbsp;<em>Speak Now [Taylor\u2019s Version]<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Midnights<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Red [Taylor\u2019s Version]<\/em>. Signed editions of her albums are a major sales driver.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Swift\u2019s total of No. 1s on the Billboard 200 albums chart rising to 13 (Swift\u2019s lucky number), she extends her record for the most leaders among women in the chart\u2019s history, dating back to March of 1956, when the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis. Among all artists, The Beatles have the most No. 1s (19), followed by Jay-Z (14) and Drake and Swift (tied with 13 each).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All 13 of Swift\u2019s full-length studio albums and re-recorded projects from 2008\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>, her second studio album, through 2023\u2019s&nbsp;<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;have debuted at No. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swift announced&nbsp;<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;on Aug. 9, while performing at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., as part of her The Eras Tour. Pre-order sales for the album began shortly afterward via Swift\u2019s official webstore.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on\u00a0multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Nov. 11, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on Nov. 7. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>\u2019s 1.653 million equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 2, album sales comprise 1.359 million, SEA units comprise 288,000 (equaling 375.49 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s 21 songs) and TEA units comprise 6,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original\u00a0<em>1989<\/em>\u00a0album debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart dated Nov. 15, 2014, and spent 11 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. It is tied with Swift\u2019s first leader,\u00a0<em>Fearless<\/em>, for her most weeks at No. 1 with a single album. The\u00a0<em>1989<\/em>\u00a0album boasts three songs that hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 \u2014 the most No. 1s generated from any Swift album. She sent \u201cShake It Off,\u201d \u201cBlank Space\u201d and \u201cBad Blood,\u201d featuring Kendrick Lamar, to No. 1 in 2014-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;includes re-recordings of the original&nbsp;<em>1989<\/em>&nbsp;album\u2019s standard 13 songs plus the three tracks from its deluxe edition. The new&nbsp;<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;adds five additional previously unreleased \u201cFrom the Vault\u201d re-recordings, bringing the total number of songs on the standard version of&nbsp;<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;to 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Million-Selling Week<\/strong>: With 1.359 million copies sold in its first week,\u00a0<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>\u00a0marks the sixth Swift album to have sold at least a million in a single week, following the debut weeks of\u00a0<em>Midnights<\/em>,\u00a0<em>reputation<\/em>, the original\u00a0<em>1989<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Red<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Speak Now<\/em>. She is the only act with six different albums to each sell at least 1 million copies in a single week since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, there have been 25 instances \u2014 by 23 different albums \u2014 in which an album sold at least 1 million copies in a week in the Luminate era. One of those albums, Adele\u2019s&nbsp;<em>25<\/em>, sold more than 1 million in three separate weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2023\u2019s Biggest-Selling Album<\/strong>:&nbsp;<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;has already become the year\u2019s top-selling album. It surpasses the year\u2019s previous best-seller, Swift\u2019s own 2022 release&nbsp;<em>Midnights<\/em>, which has sold 791,000 in 2023. Swift now has the top-three-selling albums of the year, as&nbsp;<em>Speak Now (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;is the No. 3-seller, with 755,000 sold since its release in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Modern-Era Single-Week Vinyl Sales Record<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>\u00a0sold 693,000 copies on vinyl in its first week. That marks the largest sales week for a vinyl album since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991. Swift breaks her own modern-era vinyl sales record, set by the debut of her last studio album of all-new material,\u00a0<em>Midnights<\/em>, which sold 575,000 copies in its opening week (ending Oct. 27, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biggest Sales Week for a CD Album Since 2015<\/strong>: Of&nbsp;<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>\u2019s first-week sales across all formats (CD, vinyl, digital download and cassette), its combined eight CD editions sold 554,000 copies. That marks the single-largest sales week for an album on CD since Adele\u2019s&nbsp;<em>25<\/em>&nbsp;sold 1.03 million copies on CD in its fifth week of release (week ending Dec. 24, 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Swift\u2019s Biggest Streaming Week for a Re-Recorded Album<\/strong>: As\u00a0<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u00a0<\/em>earned 288,000 SEA units, which equates to 375.49 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s 21 songs, the album tallies Swift\u2019s biggest streaming week, by total streams for its songs, for any of her four re-recorded projects. Her previous biggest streaming sum for a re-recorded project was the opening week of\u00a0<em>Red (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>, which saw its collected 30 songs\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/taylor-swift-tenth-number-one-album-billboard-200-red-taylors-version-1235000860\/\">generate<\/a>\u00a0303.23 million streams. (Swift\u2019s biggest streaming week overall for any album is the debut\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/taylor-swift-midnights-debut-number-one-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235163377\/\">frame<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<em>Midnights<\/em>, with 549.26 million clicks \u2014 which is also the single-largest week for any album by a woman.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/seventeen\/\">SEVENTEEN<\/a>&nbsp;debuts with&nbsp;<em>SEVENTEENTH Heaven: 11th Mini Album<\/em>, marking the Korean&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/pop\/\">pop<\/a>&nbsp;group\u2019s fourth top 10-charting effort. The set launches with 100,000 equivalent album units earned, driven almost entirely by CD sales (98,000 in total), bolstered by its availability across 16 collectible CD variants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the top 10 comprises former No. 1s. Drake\u2019s\u00a0<em>For All the Dogs<\/em>\u00a0falls 2-3 (95,000 equivalent album units earned, down 21%); Bad Bunny\u2019s\u00a0<em>Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Ma\u00f1ana\u00a0<\/em>is a non-mover at No. 4 (73,000; down 25%); Morgan Wallen\u2019s\u00a0<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>\u00a0is steady at No. 5 (64,000; down 7%); Rod Wave\u2019s\u00a0<em>Nostalgia<\/em>\u00a0rises 9-6 (46,000; down 9%); Swift\u2019s\u00a0<em>Midnights<\/em>\u00a0dips 6-7 (45,000; down 15%); Swift\u2019s\u00a0<em>Lover<\/em>\u00a0falls 7-8 (just over 44,000; down 15%); Zach Bryan\u2019s self-titled album descends 8-9 (44,000; down 14%); and SZA\u2019s\u00a0<em>SOS<\/em>\u00a0climbs 11-10 (42,000; down 5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3972\" data-postid=\"3972\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3972 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The re-recorded set bows with the largest week for any album in nearly eight years and Swift&#8217;s biggest sales week ever. 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