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Swift's "1989" sold 172,000 album copies and 718,000
individual song downloads, bringing her total tally to 244,000
units sold for the week ending Jan. 4, according to figures from
Nielsen SoundScan.
It is the album's eighth non-consecutive week at the top of the
chart.
In the recently revamped Billboard 200 chart guidelines, 10 song
sales equal one album unit, and 1,500 album streams equal one
album unit.
Swift notably refused to make "1989" available to stream for
free on online platforms such as Spotify, but that didn't stop
the record from becoming 2014's biggest seller, with 3.7 million
albums sold.
Streaming music figures did continue to grow significantly in
2014 according to Nielsen's year-end music report, with 164
billion songs streamed online in the United States, a 54 percent
rise from 2013.
No new entries entered the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart
this week as artists usually do not release music in the final
week of the year.
Rapper Nicki Minaj's "The Pinkprint" remained steady at No. 2,
tallying 83,600 units this week, while British singer Ed
Sheeran's "X" climbed from No. 7 to No. 3 with 83,400 units.
On the digital songs chart, which measures song downloads, Mark
Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk!" sold 382,000 units and
took the top spot from Swift's "Blank Space."
"Blank Space" dropped to No. 2 selling 284,000 copies, while
Irish singer-songwriter Hozier's "Take Me to Church" remained
steady at No. 3 with 265,000 copies.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Eric Kelsey and James
Dalgleish)
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