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Taylor Swift, the modern queen of vinyl, has broken her own record for the most sales of a vinyl album in a week and did it in just three days.
With 700,000 LP copies sold of “The Tortured Poets Department” over the weekend, her ‘Tortured Poets Department’ broke the record.
The previous weekly record belonged to Swift’s release from last October, “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” which sold 693,000 copies in a seven-day period. Billboard reported the info on Swift besting her own recent high-water mark.
Her“Midnights” also set a weekly vinyl sales record when it came out in October 2022, with what then seemed like an astronomical 570,000 copies in the LP format.
It should be noted, as these records keep getting toppled, that they are all for what is often referred to as “the modern era” — that is, for the period since 1991, when SoundScan began keeping well-researched tallies of sales numbers for albums in vinyl, CD, cassette, download and all other forms.
It’s possible that there were albums that sold more than 700,000 vinyl copies in a week back in the ’60s, ’70s or early ’80s, when LPs were the dominant format for consumption of music, but that data wasn’t being collected then. In any case, there’s no one else who has come even close to Swift’s opening LP numbers over the last 33 years.