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Swift's milestone puts her behind the late Whitney Houston, who
had three albums top the charts for at least 10 weeks, Billboard
said. Swift's second album, "Fearless," spent 11 weeks at the
top.
By tallying 101,000 sales units, including 71,000 albums and
302,000 song downloads, "1989" - the best-selling album of 2014
- marks its tenth non-consecutive week at the top in the 14
weeks since its release, according to figures from Nielsen
SoundScan for the week ended Feb. 1.
Swift also became the seventh act overall to have at least two
albums top the charts for so long, joining the likes of the
Beatles and Elvis Presley.
The reformulated Billboard 200 considers album sales, song
downloads and online streaming to compile an album's total sales
units. Swift famously does not allow her work to be on streaming
services.
Jumping back into second place ahead of the Grammys on Sunday is
nominee Ed Sheeran's "X," followed by other favorites to win
awards on the music industry's biggest night. Meghan Trainor
remained at No. 3 with "Title," and Sam Smith's "In the Lonely
Hour" rebounded to No. 4 from No. 9.
The only new release in the top 10 was R&B singer Ne-Yo's
"Non-Fiction," debuting at No. 5.
Last week's No. 1, "American Beauty/American Psycho" from rock
group Fall Out Boy, dropped 75 percent to 55,000 units, putting
it in sixth place.
Singer Bruno Mars and producer Mark Ronson's hit "Uptown Funk!"
was the top downloaded song for the fifth consecutive week with
365,000 in sales, a 7 percent rise from last week.
(Reporting by Mary Milliken; Editing by Eric Kelsey and
Christian Plumb)
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