On Friday at midnight, music superstar Taylor Swift will release her eleventh studio album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department.’ The release comes as the popstar continues her global Eras tour, with the Europe leg set to begin early next month.
Swift’s career in the music industry spans nearly two decades. In 2006, she released her first album, Taylor Swift, which contained hits such as ‘Tear Drops on My Guitar’ and ‘Our Song,’ marking her quest for stardom. She has won over 500 music awards and continues to break records with her sales and streaming numbers.
With ten new studio albums, four re-recorded studio albums, five extended plays, and four live albums, it’s difficult for the pop star to pick just one as her favorite. Swift has sold an estimated 114 million album units worldwide, which begs the question: Which album is the pop star’s most successful?
Swift’s 2014 album, 1989′, stands out as the artist’s best-selling album. In total, the album has sold over 14,332,116 copies worldwide.
With classic hits like ‘Style,’ ‘Blank Space,’ and ‘Bad Blood’ this album dominated the charts in the year of its release.
Her fifth studio album, 1989′, marked a significant milestone in Swift’s career. With it, she defined herself as a pop artist and moved away from her country music singer roots.
At the time of its release, record sales for artists were generally low due to the emergence of digital download and streaming platforms, which makes Swift’s record sales even more impressive.
‘1989′ allowed Swift to become the first artist to have three albums sell one million copies within the first week, a record she beat with later albums.
Close behind ‘1989′ is Swift’s 2008 album, ‘Fearless,’ which ended up selling 11,901,000 units worldwide. In the U.S. alone, the album sold 7,210,000 copies as of October 2020.
‘Fearless’ has been consistently charting on either the US Top Country Albums chart or US Billboard 200 chart for over a decade since its initial release. Swift, who was only 20 at the time, was honored at the Grammy Awards for being “one of the most important singer-songwriters of her generation.”
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After its initial release, Taylor Swift re-recorded her album and added some previously unreleased tracks. The re-recording was released in 2021 and was an instant hit, selling 291,000 units in the first week. The sales were a combination of both album sales and streaming.‘Midnights’
Although her latest release ‘Midnights’ isn’t her best-selling album, it could break Swift’s own sales record. ‘Midnights’ broke a new record by selling six million album-equivalent units in its first eight weeks and continues to benefit from sales and streams as the ‘Eras Tour’ sets to head to Central and South America.
Here's a recap of Swift's nine albums that have sold at least 2 million copies each, ranked by largest total sales: Fearless (7.285 million), 1989 (6.472 million), her self-titled album (5.871 million), Speak Now (4.817 million), Red (4.582 million), Midnights (2.814 million), Reputation (2.478 million), Folklore ( ...
It quickly became Swift's biggest hit ever, reigning atop the Hot 100 for eight weeks and surpassing "Blank Space" as her longest-running No. 1 song. The same week that "Anti-Hero" debuted at No. 1, Swift became the first and only artist in history to occupy the entire top 10 on the Hot 100.
"Taylor Swift" is widely regarded as Swift's worst album, but that's only because all her albums are good. Something has to be the "worst" — that's how rankings work — and "Taylor Swift" is often overlooked, being the singer's first and most rudimentary work.
Michael Jackson's Thriller, estimated to have sold between 70 and 100 million copies worldwide, is the best-selling album ever. Jackson also currently has the highest number of albums on the list with five, while Celine Dion has four and the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Madonna and Whitney Houston each have three.
The record for the most number-one albums is held by The Beatles with 19 chart-toppers; they also hold the record for the most number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 with 20. Beatles member Paul McCartney actually has 27 top albums when you also count his solo albums and his albums with the band Wings.
Taylor Swift racked up double-digit Hot 100 No. 1s when her “Cruel Summer” (released on 2019's Lover) went to the top of the charts in 2023, four years after the song was given to Swifties everywhere. Eleven years earlier, Swift secured her first No.
In Defense of Taylor Swift's “Evermore”: Exploring the Beauty and Depth of an Underrated Album (Part 1) Evermore is Taylor Swift's ninth studio album and the sister album to the beloved Folklore but is ranked as many people's least favorite.
Taylor Swift's "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" is the longest song in history to reach No. 1. The song, which clocks in at just over 10 minutes long, beat out longtime record holder Don McLean, whose eight-minute track "American Pie" held the top position for four weeks in 1972.
You'd think being part of Taylor Swift's “squad” of A-list pals is something you'd want to shout about, but the singer's long-term bestie Ash Avignone has tended to keep their friendship low key and out of the spotlight over the years.
It is estimated that more than one billion Elvis Presley records have been sold worldwide. From his early sessions at Sun Records to the end of his career and beyond, Elvis albums and singles enjoyed strong sales across every format–vinyl, cassette, CD and digital.
The top-selling female-fronted album of all time based on certified unit sales worldwide is currently Whitney Houston's 1992-released 'The Bodyguard Soundtrack,' with a massive 45 million copies sold.
Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department is now the only album in Spotify history to surpass one billion streams in a single week, the streaming service announced Wednesday (April 24) — and it only needed five days to do it.
Who sold more records: Taylor Swift or Shania Twain? Taylor Swift has overall sold more records than Shania Twain, with an estimated 200 million total albums sold worldwide to Twain's 100 million.
1989 spent 11 weeks atop the Billboard 200 and was certified nine-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It has sold over 14 million copies worldwide and was certified multi-platinum in many countries.
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