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Taylor Swift 'Red' Sales Still Soaring: Charts Update

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Taylor Swift is nearing the 3 million mark with sales of her latest album, Red. Holiday shopping has catapulted the project to the tops of both the country albums chart and all-genre Top 200 chart this week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Over the holidays, Red averaged more than 200,000 copies sold per week, making its grand total now at almost 2.9 million units sold. Red was the best-selling country album of 2012, and the second-best seller overall for the year, behind Adele's 21.

Just after Taylor on this week's country chart is Lady Antebellum, with the trio's On This Winter's Night holiday album at No. 2. Rounding out the Top 5 are Little Big Town's Tornado, Blake Shelton's Cheers, It's Christmas and Jason Aldean's Night Train.

Over on the country singles chart, Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" is No. 1 in digital sales this week, with duo's breakout song now topping 1.4 million downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan data. The Band Perry's "Better Dig Two" follows and is now close to half a million downloads in total sales. "The Voice" winner Cassadee Pope's version of Miranda Lambert's "Over You" comes in at No. 3, just ahead of Hunter Hayes' "Wanted" and the first single from Taylor's Red album, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."

Next up for Taylor is her Red tour, headlining 58 shows in 45 cities in 2013. See a list of cities and dates on the trek here.

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ibjennyjenny

I love Taylor's voice. Music isn't about how high a note you can reach it's about all the hearts you can touch. Listening to Taylor sing, I can feel every word she has written and that is big stuff right there...
When I purchase her albums I know that when I play it I will be listening to something that she put her heart and soul into....I like that.
RED ROCKS!

March 03 2013 at 4:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bofalaska

Not the best voice, but the biggest brain in the business. As Scott Borchetta (of Big Machine) said; "If she wasn't so young and cute, people would have realized she's a genius a long time ago." She leads a army of girls and young women (and men) worldwide now, and is still thinking about what she'll leave behind as an old lady. Taylor is an old soul in a six-foot blonde young woman's body, and the most articulate songwriter around. Facinating.

January 03 2013 at 11:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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