Taylor Swift’s ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ sells 1.65 million units in its first week

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Taylor Swift’s ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ sells 1.65 million units in its first week

Toff C.

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Taylor Swift has achieved another massive feat on the Billboard charts.

The singer's 1989 (Taylor's Version) debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It's her 13th number one album to date. The album sold 1.653 million equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in its debut week.

According to Billboard, 1.359 million of the album units sold were traditional album sales which surpassed the record of the previous 1989 album which sold 1.287 in its first week. Meanwhile it gained 288,000 streaming equivalent albums (SEA) which equates to 375.49 million on-demand official streams. It also gained 6,000 track equivalent albums (TEA).

1989 (Taylor's Version) has the largest weekly sales for a CD album since 2015.

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Aside from the Billboard 200, Taylor also dominated the Hot 100 chart following the debut week of 1989 (Taylor's Version). Seven songs from the album made it to the top 10 including "Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version)" in No. 1, "Now That We Don't Talk" (Taylor's Version)" in No. 2, "Slut! (Taylor's Version)" in No. 3, "Say Don't Go (Taylor's Version)" in No. 5,  "Bad Blood (Taylor's Version)" in No. 7, "Style (Taylor's Version)" in No. 9, and "Suburban Legends (Taylor's Version)" in No. 10. The singer's "Cruel Summer" from the Lover album landed in No. 6. 

Taylor released 1989 (Taylor's Version) on October 27.

"I was born in 1989, reinvented for the first time in 2014, and a part of me was reclaimed in 2023 with the re-release of this album I love so dearly," Taylor wrote on social media upon its release.

She continued: "Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine the magic you would sprinkle on my life for so long. This moment is a reflection of the woods we've wandered through and all of this love between us still glowing in the darkest dark."

"I present to you, with gratitude and wild wonder, my version of 1989. It's been waiting for you."

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