{"id":62438,"date":"2014-11-05T17:08:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T17:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=62438"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T17:08:41","slug":"taylor-swifts-1989-tops-a-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=62438","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift&#8217;s 1989 tops a million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Removing her entire back catalogue from music-streaming service Spotify doesn&#8217;t seem to have dented Taylor Swift&#8217;s massive popularity.<\/p>\n<p>Her 1989 album has debuted at No 1 on America&#8217;s Billboard 200 albums chart.<\/p>\n<p>It sold 1.287 million copies in its first week.<\/p>\n<p>According to Billboard that is the largest sales week for an album since Eminem&#8217;s The Eminem Show was released 12 years ago.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape full-width no-caption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/625\/media\/images\/78766000\/jpg\/_78766730_be5f81d8-8374-43d0-a8fd-946ab8399301.jpg\" alt=\"Tweet from Taylor Swift\" width=\"624\" height=\"250\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not the only reason for Swift to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s now the only act to earn three million-selling weeks with an album. Before 1989, Red sold 1.208 million in it&#8217;s first week, while Speak Now clocked up 1.047 million sales.<\/p>\n<p>It also means 1989 has jumped ahead of Coldplay&#8217;s Ghost Stories as the biggest-selling album released in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>And 1989 is just the 19th album to sell a million copies in a week since SoundScan, a sales-tracking system, began counting weekly numbers back in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Of the last four million-selling weeks, three belong to Swift.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Removing her entire back catalogue from music-streaming service Spotify doesn&#8217;t seem to have dented Taylor Swift&#8217;s massive popularity. Her 1989 album has debuted at No 1 on America&#8217;s Billboard 200 albums chart. It sold 1.287 million copies in its first week. According to Billboard that is the largest sales week for an album since Eminem&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":62439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35,6],"class_list":["post-62438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-lpg","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}