1989 is the best-selling Album of 2015 as of September 30, 2015 with a total of 3,568,000 copies sold globally so far this year. Its the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on October 27, 2014, through Big Machine Records. The album's title was inspired by the pop-music scene of the 1980s, particularly Swift's birth year. The album represents a sonic departure from the country music of her previous albums, and is described by Swift as her "first documented official pop album." Five singles have been released from the set: "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood" reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, while "Style" and "Wildest Dreams" peaked at number six.
The album's performance broke Swift's own personal sales record, and became the 19th album to sell over one million copies in a single week since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. It was the seventh-highest sales week in history, and the highest sales week since 2002, when Eminem's The Eminem Show sold 1.3 million units. Swift also became the first artist to release three albums that sold one million or more copies within a single week. The Album remained at the top spot of the Billboard 200 during the second and third week of release, surpassing two million copies sold. In its fourth week, the album was replaced by One Direction's Four, but returned to number one again for the fourth time in its fifth week. The album sold 200,000 or more copies in each of the 10 successive weeks after release, a feat last achieved by Usher's Confessions in 2004. 1989 eventually sold over 3,660,000 copies in 2014 and was the best-selling album in the U.S. that year, ahead of Coldplay's Ghost Stories (745,000 copies).
During the week ending January 18, 2015, the album sales surpassed four million copies. 1989 is the first album to sell four million copies in the U.S. since the week ending February 23, 2014, when Red crossed the four-million mark. By early February 2015, in its 15th week of release, 1989 topped the U.S. chart for eleven non-consecutive weeks, establishing Swift as the female artist with the second-highest number of total weeks, with 35 weeks, in the number-one Billboard position for all of her albums—Whitney Houston's record total of 46 weeks at number one remained intact. It spent a total of 24 consecutive weeks inside the top five of the Billboard 200, making it one of the nine albums to spend their first 24 weeks in the top five since 1963. On March 13, 2015, Billboard announced that 1989 had outsold both of her previous two albums in the U.S. after 19 weeks of release.
In Canada, the album debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 107,000 copies. In its second week, the album remained at number one with sales of 37,000, bringing its two-week sales total to 144,000 copies. It went on to become Canada's best-selling album of the year, having sold 314,000 copies. In the UK, 1989 sold 90,000 in its first week and debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. It became her second number-one album in the UK, following Red (2012), and was the fastest-selling female solo album in 2014. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry the Album sold 6 million copies worldwide in 2014.
BEST SELLING ALBUMS OF 2015
last interim balance 2015 (January 1 - September 30)
1. “1989” Taylor Swift – 3,568,000 sales
2. “X” Ed Sheeran – 3,291,000 sales
3. “In The Lonely Hour” Sam Smith – 2,822,000 sales
4. “50 Shades Of Grey” OST – 1,908,000 sales
5. “Title” Meghan Trainor – 1,542,000 sales
6. “If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late” Drake – 1,352,000 sales
7. "Hozier" Hozier - 1,281,000 sales
8. “Frozen” OST – 1,170,000 sales
9. “Rock Or Bust” AC/DC – 1,164,000 sales
10. "Wilder Mind" Mumford & Sons - 1,146,000 sales
11. “V” Maroon 5 – 1,074,000 sales
12. "To Pimp A Butterfly" Kendrick Lamar - 1,056,000 sales
13. “Guardians Of The Galaxy” OST – 1,030,000 sales
14. "Exodus" Exo - 950,000 sales
15. “Smoke+Mirrors” Imagine Dragons – 949,000 sales
16. “American Beauty/American Psycho” Fall Out Boy – 893,000 sales
17. “Four” One Direction – 887,000 sales
18. "Furios 7" Soundtrack - 877,000 sales
19. "Drones" Muse - 873,000 sales
20. “Planet Seven” Sandaime J Soul Brothers – 842,000 sales
21. “1000 Forms of Fear” Sia – 835,000 sales
22. “Wanted On Voyage” George Ezra – 826,000 sales
23. “Koko Ga Rhodes Da, Koko De Tobe!” AKB 48 – 810,000 sales
24. "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful" Florence + The Machine - 805,000 sales
25. "Rebel Heart" Madonna - 799,000 sales
26. "Compton" Dr. Dre - 759,000 sales
27. "The Best! Watashi No Dorikamu" Dreams Come True - 738,000 sales
28. "Chaos And The Calm" James Bay - 718,000 sales
29. “Listen” David Guetta – 714,000 sales
30. "Stages" Josh Groban - 713,000 sales
31. “The Pinkprint” Nicki Minaj – 678,000 sales
32. "Beauty Behind The Madness" The Weeknd - 674,000 sales
33. “2014 Forest Hills Drive” J.Cole – 640,000 sales
34. “The Endless River” Pink Floyd – 639,000 sales
35. "Montevallo" Sam Hunt - 614,000 sales
36. "Kill The Lights" Luke Bryan - 613,000 sales
37. "Jekyll + Hyde" Zac Brown Band - 609,000 sales
38. "Tracker" Mark Knopfler - 593,000 sales
39. “My Everything” Ariana Grande – 592,000 sales
40. "Chambre 12" Louane - 579.000 sales
He's an icon of the American music history: Don Henley, member of the legendary Los Angeles based rock band The Eagles. Their compilation 'Greatest Hits 1971-1975' from 1976 sold nearly 30 million in the USA alone, the best selling album of all time there. Don Henley's fifth solo studio set 'Cass County' leads this week's Global Album Chart with 117,000 sales. 84,000 of it in the United States alone, another 11,000 in United Kingdom and 5,000 in Canada. Don Henley's debut solo album 'I Can't Stand Still' from 1982 contains the Grammy-nominated single smash 'Dirty Laundry', which reached no.10 on the Global Chart in January 1983 and was the biggest solo hit for the 68 year-old musician. Newcomer Fetty Wap, the 24 year-old rapper from New Jersey, debuts at the vice-position with his first album. It found 90,000 buyers in its initial week around the globe. The album was driven by three successful single releases, 'Trap Queen' (no.10 in June 2015), 'My Way' (no.17 in the week 31, 2015) and '679' (currently at no.22). There are massive 21 new-entries inside this week's Top 40, nine come from the United States (Don Henley, Fetty Wap, George Strait, Thomas Rhett, The Dead Weather, the soundtrack to the musical 'Hamilton', Bryson Tiller, Silversun Pickups and Kurt Vile), three from United Kingdom (Disclosure, Chvrches, New Order), two from Germany (Robin Schulz and The BossHoss), two from Italy (Negramaro and Il Volo), one from Japan (Exile Takahiro), one from France (the compilation 'Corsu: Mezzu Mezzu'), one from Canada (Amanda Cook), one from Australia (Parkway Drive) and another one from the Netherlands (Common Linnets). Some additional sales stats: 'Burning Bridges' by Bon Jovi sold 14,000 copies last week and reaches a total of 245,000 so far, Drones' by Muse sold 12,000 units last week, 898,000 so far, 'Chaos And The Calm' by James Bay sold 17,000 units last week and has a total of 752,000 copies so far, 'My Everything' by Ariana Grande sold 1,663,000 copies so far, 'Rebel Heart' by Madonna 809,000, and 'The Pinkprint' by Nicky Minaj 929,000.
Canadian teen idol / model / singer / songwriter Justin Bieber holds the hot spot of the Global Track Chart for a fourth consecutive week with 324,000 points, a minor 1% points decrease compared to the previous week. 'Locked Away' by R.City and Maroon 5 mastermind Adam Levine reaches a new peak at no.2 with 240,000 points, a 10% increase over the last week. Rounds out the top three is 'Can't Feel My Face' by The Weeknd, the former number smash gets another 230,000 points, a 5% decline. Highest deubt of the week is the theme of the new James Bond film, Spectre. 'Writing's On The Wall, written and performed by Sam Smith, bows at no.9 globally with 149,000 points. In United Kingdom the tune arrives at the pole position, it's the first number one for a James Bond theme there. Contrarily to this recruit, the dinosaur of our current tally is 'Uptown Funk!' by Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars. The big smash placed an incredible 45th week on the hitlist and slides at no.34 with 73,000 points.
Justin Bieber's 'What Do You Mean?', his most successful song so far, holds the pole position for a second week with another 342,000 points, down 3% compared to the week before. The Weeknd's 'Can't Feel My Face' rises one place at no.2, despite a 6% points decline to 266,000. Vigorously on the advance is 'Locked Away' by American duo R.City feat. Maroon 5 mastermind Adam Levine. The track jumps from no.7 to no.3, driven by a 10% points increase to 196,000. Is it a record?? 'Wildest Dreams' by Taylor Swift is the sixth song from her topical album '1989', which climbs to the Global Top 10 (this week at no.10 with 135,000 points), after 'Shake It Off' (no.1), 'Out Of The Woods' (no.6), 'Blank Space' (no.1), 'Style' (no.10) and 'Bad Blood' (no.2). Michael Jackson's superseller album 'Thriller' contained only five Global Top 10 hits: 'The Girl Is Mine' (no.4), 'Billie Jean' (no.1), 'Beat It' (no.2), 'Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (no.9) and the title-song (no.1). Outside our weekly Top 40 waiting among other Red Velvet's 'Dumb Dumb' at no.42, Adam Lambert's 'Ghost Town' at no.48, X Ambassadors' 'Renegades' at no.52, and Meghan Trainor feat. John Legend's 'Like I'm Gonna Lose You' at no.55 for their first appearance on the big list.
This week the top three positions of the Global Album Chart are occupied by heavy metal Bands. British rock band Bring Me The Horizon debuts at the top of the chart with their fifth album 'That's The Spirit' after selling 159,000 copies this first week worldwide. Most of the sales are from the USA (55,200) and UK (43,500). Close behind is the American metal legend Slayer. Their 12th studio album 'Repentless' is the band's best-selling album so far and debuts at No.2 with 124,000 copies sold. Last week's No.1, Iron Maiden, drop to No.3 this week with their new LP 'The Book Of Souls', after selling a total of 96,000 copies globally, a 69% sales decline compared to the previous week.
A fortnight ago The Weeknd's 'Beauty Behind The Madness' debuted with global sales of 449,000. Tthis week the album drops one slot to No.4 with sales of 90,000. The Album has sold a total of 674,000 in three weeks and is the.33rd best selling Album this year! Taylor Swift's '1989' is still the biggest seller of 2015 with sales of 3,568,000. Ed Sheeran's 'X' is just behind with sales of 3,291,000 and Sam Smith's 'In The Lonely Hour' is in #rd position after selling 2,822,000 units.
'Cast In Steel'' by A-ha sold 15,000 copies last week and reaches a total of 47,000 so far. 'Chambre 12' by Louane sold 13,000 units last week, 579,000 so far. 'Drones' by Muse sold also 14,000 units last week and has a total of 873,000 copies so far, 'Meliora' by Ghost sold 94,000 copies so far. 'Rebel Heart' by Madonna sold a total of 799,000 copies, and 'Tracker' by Mark Knopfler 593,000.
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