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Taylor Swift's 'Red' sold 1.21m copies in America in its first week

  • October 31, 2012
  • Brad O'Mance

Taylor Swift's album 'Red' has 'shifted' a whopping 1.21m copies in a week to enter the US Billboard chart at Number One.

All that with barely any promo! Well done Taylor!

That's the most an album's sold in a week since Eminem's 'The Eminem Show' sold 1.32m in 2002. The last album to break the million sales barrier in a week was Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' in May 2011, which sold 1.1m copies.

The album also broke an iTunes sales record, with 465,000 sales. Brilliantly, it also sold 8,000 copies via the amazing deal with Papa John's pizzas.

Taylor had this to say about it all on her Facebook page: "They just told me Red sold 1.2 million albums first week. How is this real life?! You are UNREAL. I love you so much. Thanks a million ;)"

Not one of the greatest speeches in history, really. Not really "I have a dream" or "I have in my hand a piece of paper".

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