The album’s vinyl sales mark the second-largest week for a vinyl album since Luminate began tracking data in 1991 – only the debut week of Midnights posted a bigger vinyl week (575,000). Of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’s 507,000 copies sold, physical sales comprise 410,000 (268,000 on vinyl 134,000 on CD and 8,000 on cassette) while digital album download purchases comprise 97,000. Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) follows Swift’s re-recorded Red and Fearless albums, released in 2021. The 22-track re-recorded edition includes new recordings of the original album’s 14 standard tracks, along with bonus cuts and previously unreleased “From the Vault” recordings. Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is a re-recorded version of Swift’s 2010 studio album Speak Now, which topped both the Billboard 200 and Top Album Sales chart. For all chart news, follow and on both Twitter and Instagram.
The new July 22, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on July 18.
6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. 2-100 titles – combined – sold just 381,000.īillboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. Swift’s selling power is further evidenced on Billboard’s latest 100-position Top Album Sales chart (dated July 22, reflecting the sales week ending July 13), where Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) debuts at No. In 2023 so far, through July 13, Swift’s total album sales across all of her releases stands at 2.096 million – 3.8% of all album sales this year, by all artists (54.519 million). She also had the year’s top-selling album, with Midnights selling 1.818 million copies (more than twice the sum of the year’s second biggest seller, Harry Styles’ Harry’s House, with 757,000). In 2022, Swift was the top-selling act for the year in terms of total album sales, with 2.93 million copies sold across her entire catalog – about 3% of total album sales across all albums from all artists (100.09 million). Thus, Swift’s outsized album sales dwarf the rest of the industry. Swift can capture a large chunk of the album sales market in a given week because she remains a solid seller at a time when yearly album sales have declined in 10 of the last 11 years, as more music fan adopt streaming services as their primary means of consuming music.
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