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Taylor Swift On Track For Platinum Debut With 1989

10/30/2014
. (Radio.com) Looks like the first-week Platinum-selling album isn't dead after all. Thanks, Taylor. According to Billboard, 1989, Taylor Swift's fifth studio album out this week, may break 1 million in sales in its first week, making it the first record to do so since Swift's Red in October 2012.

Currently, the album is forecast to sell at least 1 million, though it's unclear how high or low above that number it may go. But the new number comes after weeks of insiders upping the total; first, it was expected to sell around 750,000 two weeks ago, followed by a jump to around 800,000 and then 900,000.

Red sold 1.21 million copies in its first week in 2012, while Swift's previous album, 2010's Speak Now, also reached that marker at 1.05 million. The number would give 2014 its first Platinum-certified album in terms of first week sales after two years without one. Read more here.

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