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"1989" sold 111,000 album copies and 439,000 individual song
downloads, bringing her total tally to 155,000 units sold for
the week ending Jan. 11, according to figures released Wednesday
by Nielsen SoundScan.
It is the album's ninth non-consecutive week at the top of the
chart in the 11 weeks since release. In the last week of 2014,
"1989" surged ahead of the "Frozen" soundtrack to become the
year's biggest seller.
In the revamped Billboard 200 chart guidelines, 10 song sales
equal one album unit, and 1,500 album streams equal one album
unit. Swift famously opted out of streaming "1989" and the rest
of her catalog on popular online platform Spotify.
Only one new entry entered the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart
this week, hip hop duo Rae Sremmurd with "SremmLife," which came
in at No. 5.
British singer Ed Sheeran's "X" climbed one rung to No. 2 with
76,000 units 29 weeks after release, while rapper Nicki Minaj's
"The Pinkprint" dropped down to No. 3 with 60,000 units.
On the digital songs chart, which measures song downloads, Mark
Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk!" sold 340,000 units for the
top spot two weeks running. Taylor's "Blank Space" dropped to
No. 4 with 176,000 units.
(Reporting by Mary Milliken; Editing by Eric Kelsey and Grant
McCool)
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