Taylor Swift :: Charts & Sales History

[InFamous]

It‘s still impressive nonetheless, and as posted above, Adele is coming from a huge seller, Taylor wasn‘t. Again, we don‘t have to discredit someone to praise someone else - all things considered, it is impressive how Folklore opened with the numbers it did.

I don't see why you felt the need to mention Adele at all then. I mean youre the one inviting comparisons!!

[Tansike]

I don't see why you felt the need to mention Adele at all then. I mean youre the one inviting comparisons!!

Because Jeremy posted she still has the biggest opening. That post made me realize that Adele didn‘t break the record, and I didn‘t expect Taylor to hold that record and I think most people expected Adele to break it, right?

I never try to bring artists down and refuse to get drawn into this

[JC96]

Lover really won at the end

[TheMysteriousMan]

Well Taylor had 16 covers available over two formats which boosted her numbers a lot. Some stans were buying all 16.

Can you stop bringing the twitter stan logic here? It's annoying. Can you find a reliable source that says "blah blah blah which boosted her numbers 'a lot' "? 16 covers availble doesn't mean people bought 16 covers. Most people just buy one or two. You saw some people on twitter sharing folklore with 16 versions and thought all her fans were buying multible versions. Not to mention how many people on twitter were buying 16 versions exactly? Probably less than 50. Bruh.

[Choley]

Biggest Weekly Female Album Sales In US

3.Taylor Swift - 1989 - 1,286,544 (2014)
4.Taylor Swift - Reputation - 1,216,416 (2017)
5.Taylor Swift - Red - 1,208,290 (2012)
10.Taylor Swift - Speak Now - 1,046,718 (2010)
24.Taylor Swift - Lover - 679,000 (2019)
34.Taylor Swift - Folklore - 615,000 (2020)
38.Taylor Swift - Fearless - 592,304 (2008)

She's tied Adele with most entries (7)

[InFamous]

Can you stop bringing the twitter stan logic here? It's annoying. Can you find a reliable source that says "blah blah blah which boosted her numbers 'a lot' "? 16 covers availble doesn't mean people bought 16 covers. Most people just buy one or two. You saw some people on twitter sharing folklore with 16 versions and thought all her fans were buying multible versions. Not to mention how many people on twitter were buying 16 versions exactly? Probably less than 50. Bruh.

Well font forget that she included a digital copy with every physical copy ordered so they could all count for week one. That practice has since been disqualified from the charts. So there's no doubt that Taylor's opening week was boosted many things and Adele is the biggest opening week by far since all the new rules were implemented.

I was impressed with Red TVs first week and I think 1989 could be bigger. Taylor has a very dedicated fan base.

[InFamous]

Because Jeremy posted she still has the biggest opening. That post made me realize that Adele didn‘t break the record, and I didn‘t expect Taylor to hold that record and I think most people expected Adele to break it, right?

I never try to bring artists down and refuse to get drawn into this

The rules were different when Folklore was released so youre not comparing like with like
. As noted by Billboard in their report Adele has the biggest opening week by far since the new rules were implemented, followed by I think Drake and then Taylor with Red TV!

[JeremySpears]

[TheMysteriousMan]

Well font forget that she included a digital copy with every physical copy ordered so they could all count for week one. That practice has since been disqualified from the charts. So there's no doubt that Taylor's opening week was boosted many things and Adele is the biggest opening week by far since all the new rules were implemented.

I was impressed with Red TVs first week and I think 1989 could be bigger. Taylor has a very dedicated fan base.

"The new rules state that all albums bundled with concert tickets or other merchandise must be promoted as an add-on in order to be counted on the official charts. Additionally, the sale of physical records or singles bundled with digital downloads will no longer count as digital sales." ------pictchfork.com, 13 Jul 2020

Folklore release day ------- 24 Jul 2020

Seems like all your resources come from your own mind.

[InFamous]

"The new rules state that all albums bundled with concert tickets or other merchandise must be promoted as an add-on in order to be counted on the official charts. Additionally, the sale of physical records or singles bundled with digital downloads will no longer count as digital sales." ------pictchfork.com, 13 Jul 2020

Folklore release day ------- 24 Jul 2020

Seems like all your resources come from your own mind.

Nah. Positions by Ariana was the first album to come out under the current rules and Adele has the biggest opening since all the new rules were brought in. Billboard even noted this in their report ;)

[TheMysteriousMan]

16 versions boosts sales a lot -> additional digital copies boost her sales a lot so Billboard changed the rule bc of her -> Now Ariana's album was the first one under current rules?? Who said folklore was the first one anyway?

Jesus I just don't wanna argue with someone who changes the topic every time I found his fallacy. Better argue with the wall.
I'm tired. Don't reply.

End of convo.

[TheMysteriousMan]

And "Zero tolerance for : bigotry, wilful ignorance"
kinda ironic ngl

[TheMysteriousMan]

Here are the songs from 1989, reputation, lover, folklore & evermore that yet to reach 100M streams on Spotify (the standard for evermore is 70M), all standard versions.

Total /Monday Update /Title

78,376,326 +84,511 Clean
69,482,198 +73,490 How You Get The Girl
60,757,765 +60,860 I Know Places
58,432,876 +56,554 This Love
58,021,642 +56,736 I Wish You Would

95,346,233 +105,219 Dress
95,066,388 +88,382 King Of My Heart
87,648,545 +75,133 This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
78,867,295 +70,680 New Year's Day
73,638,808 +57,984 So It Goes...

82,718,016 +66,216 False God
79,485,005 +83,278 Daylight
71,653,500 +48,271 Soon You'll Get Better
60,371,280 +45,790 It's Nice To Have A Friend

92,480,735 +102,880 mad woman
88,630,700 +93,747 peace
84,141,582 +84,065 epiphany
78,915,276 +84,495 hoax

69,138,172 +115,631 coney island
64,879,595 +103,113 dorothea
63,540,375 +108,500 cowboy like me
59,258,151 +101,409 marjorie
49,742,421 +78,788 closure

Edit: finally being able to edit the format!

[JeremySpears]

THE MUSIC INDUSTRY!

Previous years:

2020 - #2
2019 - #3
2018 - #4
2017 - #2

[JeremySpears]

She’s the second most streamed artist overall on Spotify this year.

Previous years:

2020 - #8
2019 - #13
2018 - #24
2017 - #20

Getting bigger every year.

[TheMysteriousMan]

She’s the second most streamed artist overall on Spotify this year.

Previous years:

2020 - #8
2019 - #13
2018 - #24
2017 - #20

Getting bigger every year.

Did you mean female and overall respectively for 16164 and 16165?
If yes, that's crazy how she was #2 for female but #20 overal in 2017

[BritneyVenezuela]

Slaylor Swift. I have a feeling she will end up becoming the best selling female artist of all time in the US.

[nympho]

Did you mean female and overall respectively for 16164 and 16165?
If yes, that's crazy how she was #2 for female but #20 overal in 2017

Yes. In 2017 the highest female artist was Rihanna at #15.

Unfortunately, ever year it’s the same male domination, though…
This year as well there are only 10 women on the overall Top 50. But at least this time there are 3 women inside the Top 10.

[InFamous]

"The new rules state that all albums bundled with concert tickets or other merchandise must be promoted as an add-on in order to be counted on the official charts. Additionally, the sale of physical records or singles bundled with digital downloads will no longer count as digital sales." ------pictchfork.com, 13 Jul 2020

Folklore release day ------- 24 Jul 2020

Seems like all your resources come from your own mind.

Nope, those rules were implemented after Folklore was released, and just before Positions by Ariana dropped.

From the official Billboard report on Folklores first week, seeing as you need a reminder.

During the albums first week, Swifts webstore sold over a dozen physical/digital album bundles (with a CD, vinyl LP or cassette, plus the digital album). All of the physical/digital bundles delivered the digital version of the album upon purchase to the customer, while the physical version will ship to the customer later. Sales of such bundles where two formats of the same album are bundled together are counted as one sale, with the album configuration sold determined by the first version of the album that is fulfilled to the customer.

Swifts store additionally sold an array of merchandise/digital album bundles.

Billboard were being nice, because "over a dozen" was closer to 20, not to mention the hordes of merch which were also bundled with digital albums as noted above.

Folklore did really good numbers, but it operated under completely different conditions to the albums since the rules changed, and as such cannot be fairly compared.

[TheMysteriousMan]

Yes. In 2017 the highest female artist was Rihanna at #15.

Unfortunately, ever year it’s the same male domination, though…
This year as well there are only 10 women on the overall Top 50. But at least this time there are 3 women inside the Top 10.

Look at page 37 #917:
In 2009, there were 7 women in the top 10 Internet most streamed artists list.
Things have rly changed dramatically

[JeremySpears]

Billboard 200 Year-End Chart 2021

#4 evermore
#12 folklore
#33 Fearless (Taylor's Version)
#61 Lover
#88 1989
#170 reputation
The music industry!!!

[TheMysteriousMan]

Billboard 200 Year-End Chart peak for each album:

#5 Taylor Swift
#1 Fearless
#2 Speak Now
#2 Red
#1 1989
#1 reputation
#4 Lover
#5 folklore
#4 evermore

[JeremySpears]

Billboard 2021 Year-End Artists Charts

#1 Top Album Artist (Billboard 200)
#1 Top Album Artist - Female (Billboard 200)
#1 Top Alternative Artist
#1 Top Alternative Albums Artist
#2 Top Female Artist
#2 Hot Alternative Songs Artist
#3 Top Country Albums Artist
#4 Top Artist
#7 Adult Contemporary Artist
#8 Hot 100 Artist - Female
#9 Adult Pop Airplay Artist
#15 Hot Country Songs Artist
#17 Digital Song Sales Artist
#21 Billboard Global 200 Artist
#46 Billboard Global Excl. U.S. Artist

[TheMysteriousMan]

So I've finally found all the data I needed to calculate the yearly sales of Taylor's first five albums from 2006 to 2019!

Sources:
Soundscan where possible & oldbloke's decade charts (Thank you soooooo much!)

Limitation:
Sales based on decade charts cannot be 100% accurate.
For example: If these are the data I have:
--------------------
lover / Year-End Total
2030 / 4,123,000
2031 / 4.32M
2032 / 4,505,000
--------------------
Then I would say "Lover" sold 4,320,000-4,123,000 = 197,000 in 2031 and 4,505,000 - 4,320,000 = 185,000 in 2032.
I know it's inaccurate, but this is the best I could do with these data available.
At least if you add all the data together for each album, the differences between official figures and your results should not be greater than 10k at worst.
Last but not least: Feel free to say if you have any doubts!

OK LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO

	TS	Fearless	SN	Red	1989
2006	*292,000
2007	1,950,641
2008	1,597,000	2,112,179
2009	781,632	3,216,988
2010	*321,724	887,217	2,960,331
2011	*200,591	*252,320	967,406
2012	*161,497	*218,605	*357,870	3,107,249
2013	103,000	117,000	108,000	865,000
2014	65,000	80,000	66,000	161,000	3,661,000
2015	99,000	125,000	90,000	147,000	1,993,000
2016	69,000	75,000	62,000	78,000	347,000
2017	37,000	45,000	35,000	47,000	108,000
2018	24,000	30,000	23,000	35,000	59,000
2019	20,000	30,000	20,000	35,000	55,000
06-19	5.72M	7.19M	4,694,000	4,465,000	6,215,000

Green: from that year on (including that yr), all sales are based on decade charts rather than soundscan.
*: Not soundscan data, but derived from other soundscan data.
06-19 totals are soundscan data (I think?...)

[britneylinda]

TheMysteriousMan what you estimate her WW sales? I've been doing my research and she should be around 65m album sales pure WW but no idea on SPS as we cannot calculate WW SPS.