Taylor Swift’s Speak Now maintains its spot at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard 200 albums chart, topping the chart for a sixth nonconsecutive week and selling another 52,000 albums. With no major artists releasing albums last week, Speak Now also became the lowest-ever selling No. 1 album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. At No. 2 is Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday, which sold 39,000 units, and coming in third is Bruno Mars’ Doo-Wops & Hooligans, moving 38,000 records. Check out the full top 10 list after the jump.
No. 1 – Taylor Swift, Speak Now: 52,000
No. 2- Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday: 39,000
No. 3 – Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans: 38,000
No. 4 – Daft Punk, TRON: Legacy soundtrack: 34,000
No. 5 – Eminem, Recovery: 33,000
No. 6 – Rihanna, Loud: 33,000
No. 7 – Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: 33,000
No. 8 – Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More: 31,000
No. 9 – Jason Aldean, My Kinda Party: 29,000.
No. 10 – Country Strong soundtrack: 28,000
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Looks like Bruno Mars’s album is turning into quite the sleeper hit. Nice to see Taylor on top of the charts; sick of the haters on these websites, tried to discredit her talent as a songwriter. Obviously no amount of negativity from the trolls can keep her down.
It’s a Swifty world and we just live in it.
Glad to be a member of the Swifty world.
Amen to that, Camille.
I’ve subscribed for membership and simply PO’d that no one asked me to join.
lol
I’m a certified member and will add your name to the roster.
T Swift honoree.
I want to be a member LoL.
Entrance to Swift T world is only given by limited acceptance.
I have the multi-platinum Swift plated card level membership. I get 5% cash back on all purchases. Life is good. lol
Taylor gives the word “momentum” new meaning. I haven’t seen such a talent take off in a long time. She really deserves all the accolades she gotten so far and she’s earned each and every one of them. Sensational new offering of “Back To December” from her in the form of a conceptual video rather than the live performance from the CMAs. It’s really exceptional. Admit I’ve been swept into the Swift world and loving every minute of it.
Do we need a passport to travel around in Taylor’s world? I haven’t gotten my visa stamped yet.
Taylor’s popularity is UNIVERSAL by now and even aliens throughout the galaxy have honed in on her super talent. yeah yeah!!!
Been part of T Swift’s circle since 2006′s Teardrops on My Guitar and proud of it.
I’m a SwifTy Gurl
In this SwifTy World
It’s not anything drastic
So don’t act so spastic
Guess I’ll straighten my hair
Like Taylor I’ve got flair
I’ve got my party dress
The guys I will impress
Oh I just love her songs
Us fans and her belong
And although it’s January
It’s Back To December
Our Taylor we’ll always remember!
Yay! I am sooooo proud to be part of her whirlwide fanbase pool. Taylor fan forever!
*~*
I am part of the Swift world happy to say.
Something about Bruno bothers me and I really don’t like any of his songs even though I tried really hard to like them.
I feel what you’re saying too.
Don’t worry your pretty lil mind, people throw rocks at things that shine.
Taylor is OURS and her fans will always appreciate the enormous talent she possesses.
I am so glad I bought the deluxe album because I love “Ours” so much.
Saving the BIG ones to drop on the haterz. yayess!
That’s a good one! Deluxe version is definitely worth the extra cash.
Think she’s talking about the haters that diss on her. She gets to stick it to all of them on “Mean”, so I know it’s coming out as a single some time this year.
OURS is one of my favs!!!
Ours is the best song on the deluxe version!
That’s absolutely one of my choices for best songs on Speak Now also.
Grenade is good but I can’t stand his other songs like Nothing on You and Just the Way You Are.
I love both TSwift’s and BMars’ albums — I bought ‘em both. Also love Cee Lo Green’s CD; I can’t believe it’s not doing better. It’s awesome from start to finish; maybe SNL will give it the bump it deserves.
I really don’t understand the greatness of Cee-Lo’s CD. Sure, F*** You was unforgettably great, but that’s about it. So it’s retro, so what?
It’s not just because it’s retro. It is retro without feeling dated and Cee-Lo has one helluva voice.
I too fail to see the hype about this song. It’s good, but not great.
It’s both retro and fresh and contemporary-sounding at once — a rare feat. And there is a sonic joyousness to the whole thing.
It wasn’t groundbreaking, but it was a good solid album. Cee Lo didn’t set out to prove anything, which was refreshing.
I don’t get the deal with Bruno Mars. Nope. Not at all.
Grenade is good but I don’t care for the other songs before it.
Grenade is the best song on Bruno’s album!
what a shame watching this talentless ho being number one again
Oh look, a troll.
Hey Eloy, better watch out for Morlocks. They’ll have you for a snack!
OMG lol!!!!
Let’s put Eloy in a Time Machine and send him back.
Morlocks are nasty stinky apelike creaturz.
Preach it,Jonathan!
Overall sales are terrible,though. I hope Taylor manages to show “legs” with this album as she did with “Fearless”. I heard “Back To December” music video premieres tomorrow…maybe it gives her a little boost.
I hope so! They aren’t very good numbers, but it’s already gone 3X platinum I believe, so she’s on track to beat Fearless. Some good choices of singles (basically any song on the album) should definitely prompt sales, and hopefully she’ll be looking at some more Grammys next year
“Haunted” and “Enchanted” are but two great candidates for singles.
Agreed, Brenda. I think Mean might be released because it appeals most to country radio, and Better Than Revenge has gotten a bit of pre-single buzz for it’s subject matter, but Enchanted is my favorite song on the album!
MEAN is one of my faves and I have it on repeat.
The acoustic version of “Haunted” is even better than the full orchestral version.
Enchanted soars with the best of the songz on any of her albumz.
Haunted and Enchanted are two of the best cuts from Speak Now. I love them both. Taylor’s vocal presence on the acoutic Haunted is pure and wonderful.
I love both the acoustic and full strings arrangement on Haunted!
Haunted and Enchanted are both spectacular.
Awesome choices for future singles.
The top debut has only 30 to 35k this week so, it’s a lock for Taylor for 7 weeks next time! Yay!
I saw her video for Back to December and it’s completely FEARLESS. Luvs it!!!
The video is really great. Subtle yet it gets the message across without the usual fairytale ending.
100% in agreement!
(*o*)
Cee Lo has so much buzz…what happened to his album?
wooo jason! He is so under rated which makes no sense because all his albums sell more then almost all other bigger country artists. just sayin.. lol
Taylor’s cd is ace. It don’t matter if she has the lowest amount sold for a week cuz everybody knows cd sales continue to die and suck major. What matters is that she sold MORE than everyone else in the music field. yeah eat that haters.
Preach! And she sells more because she is one of the few artists left to actually make an ALBUM, not just a couple of singles with filler. Speak Now has been on repeat since its release for me.
Mean is her best “country sounding” song since Our Song. I just love it and prolly played it at least 500 times now and I love it more than ever!
I agree. You can listen to all the songs on her 5 albums because she doesn’t pen ones that get discarded. I hate when you buy an album and find yourself pushing the seek next selection button more often than listening to all the songs. You won’t have that problem with Taylor’s albums.
5 albums? Isn’t Speak Now only her 3rd album released so far? Confused here.
She’s probably including the holiday album and Beautiful Eyes.
That’s 7 CDz if you include the live albumz.
I thought that her first week blowout of over 1 million sold would be just be her most ardent fans buying it and then Speak Now would fall off a cliff afterwards. Taylor showed that she’s a force to be reckoned with and she’s not done by a longshot. Amazing album chocked full of great songs and I feel bad I doubted her sellilng power.
SPEAK NOW’s SALES -
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1st week * 1,047,000
2nd week * 320,000
3rd week * 212,000
4th week * 146,000
5th week * 241,000
6th week * 182,000
7th week * 201,000
8th week * 259,000
9th week * 276,000
10th week * 77,000
11th week * 52,000
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Total after 11 weeks = 3,013,000+ sold. Lucky 7 weeks at #1 next week.
Fantastic numbers for Taylor.
Great sales!
Excellent sales progression.
I was one of the million plus people that bought it the first week. It’s amazing she is holding onto that top position because so many new albums come out each week.
So happy Taylor’s selling so well as she feared the success of this album because it’s her most personal one todate. I think the fan response is a resounding YES YES YES to Speak Now. Can’t wait to see her on tour this Summer.
That’s a lot sold in only 3 months!
Those are pretty good numbers for Taylor. More power to her.
She’s killing the competition.
Cake and Cage are supposed to be #1 and #2 going into next week according to HITS and Taylor’s 3rd, unless she has a surge into th weekend.
Her Back To December video will help promote more sales in the weeks to come. Love it Love it and so glad she didn’t use a storybook fairytale ending.
I think the sales numbers for next week will be even lower. There’s most definitely a lull this year in sales.
She will definitely be a contender for Grammy nods for next year. The album is exceptionally well done.
Excellent sales for Taylor’s Speak Now. She could clear the Quintuple Platinum mark by the end of the year.
She has certainly sold more than any other artist in recent times with the 3 months that Speak Now has been released!!!
Spectacular sales.
Those are very good numbers for Taylor.
That’s very good sale numbers for these days. A lot of established acts cannot sell those amounts now like Christina, Britney, Kelly, Carrie and so forth.
Our girl Taylor is doing extremely well in the current lagging market for cd sales. Yay!
I hope it has the longevity factor and sells like her debut and 2nd albums. They’re both still on the Billboard 200 chartlisting!
Her Back to December vid will help increase sales. The vid’s awesome.
Very nice sales numbers.
It’s awesome that Speak Now is still doing really well in sales in a sluggish cd environment. Usually things will start picking up in early February and since no new major releases are debuting till Spring, she should stay near the top much every week.
No one’s selling their music like they used to and it’s going to keep dropping year after year.
Whoever said Cage the Elephant would be no. 1 next week is sadly mistaken.
What is Cage The Elephant?
What are you talking about???
So glad Nicki is doing so well too.
She has a lot of bad language in her Revenge song, but Taylor’s Revenge song is better because there’s no cussing in it.
I like how they stuck it to Kanye and put him in 7th place even though he sold the same amount of cds as Eminem and Rihanna. haha
It’s obvious very little people buys cds nowadays. Those figures from the Top 10 are really pathetic.
Taylorswift is so overrated she is not talented at all to be honest kanye west made this hoe a household ive never heard of her until then.she need to be thankin kanye if anything
lol tanya…fyi, her albums are multi-platinum, had sold-out tour, won numerous awards before that kanye incident happened.
if you didn’t heard her before kanye, well i guess you’re living under a rock. just sayin’
haters gonna hate HAHAHA
Taylorswift is so overrated she really needs to thank kanye west because he made this untalented chimp a househould name because i honestly never heard of her before the kanye thing a #jussayin
You sound like Tanya Harding. Get over it loser.
What songs does Tanya Harding sing???
Her signature song is “My husband cracked Nancy Kerrigan’s leg so I can win but that failed miserably so I’m a verified hasbeen” and she does encores.
lol
Kanye West needs to thank Taylor Swift that his musical career is still alive. She could have buried him, but decided not to.
I am sure most of the country world had no clue who this mentally ill black man was,too. Just as hiphop world had no clue,who Taylor was. Does that mean these country people started to purchase hiphop? Or hiphop people country-pop? No. So this argument is just idiotic. Jussayin.
Imma let u finish but dang I’s gettin’ my a$$ kicked by dat skinny white country girl so dat’s y i’s wont be goin’ to none of dem award shows anytime soon.
*shoulder shrug*
ROTFLMAOz
hahahaha
Apparently Kanye is doing quite well enough for you to stay on his mind. And Taylor bury him? PUH-LEASE. Kanye’s been around twice as long as Taylor, I think it will be a huge accomplishment in of itself if Taylor doesn’t end up burying her own self. Oh, and love your little racist touch with “mentally ill black man”.