Taylor Swift's '1989' continues Billboard domination, scores seventh week at No. 1

All of Taylor Swift’s albums have been huge hits for the singer, but 1989 is proving to be an entirely different animal. The music industry hasn’t seen this kind of success for a single album in a decade and the album sold even more copies during the days after Christmas.

1989 moved a total of 430,000 units, a number that includes streaming, track sales and actual album sales, during the week ending on Dec. 28. According to Billboard, 1989 sold 326,000 copies.

This marks 1989’s seventh non-consecutive week at the top of the Billboard 200 chart. It was also No. 1 last week.

Combined, Swift’s albums have spent 31 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Whitney Houston is the only female artist with more, since she had 41 weeks at the top.

1989 is selling at a pace not seen since Usher’s Confessions in 2004. Confessions was the last album to have nine straight weeks with 200,000 or more copies sold. That album finished its chart life with 12 non-consecutive weeks with at least 200,000 copies sold.

No new albums hit the Top 10 this week. Here’s what the full Top 10 looks like:

1. Taylor Swift, 1989 (430,000 total units; 360,000 actual copies sold)
2. Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint (156,000; 105,000)
3. Pentatonix, That’s Christmas To Me (131,000; 121,000)
4. One Direction, Four (131,000; 100,000)
5. Sam Smith, In The Lonely Hour (121,000; 79,000)
6. J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive (120,000; 104,000)
7. Ed Sheeran, x (113,000; 63,000)
8. Hozier, Hozier (88,000; 38,000)
9. Guardians of the Galaxy (80,000; 80,000)
10. Ariana Grande, My Everything (79,000; 33,000)

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