Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ Debuts With The Largest First Week Sales Since Eminem’s ‘The Eminem Show’

Taylor Swift's latest album, 1989, made history this week. The album sold 1.287 million copies in its first week, registering the largest sales week for an album since June 2, 2002, when Eminem's The Eminem Show sold 1.322 million in its second chart week at No. 1. The album is also the first  to go platinum this year, only a couple weeks after we reported that no album has gone platinum to date, even though Iggy Azalea's The New Classic comes close. Congrats to Taylor Swift for her major accomplishment.

This week is one of the weakest performances on the chart for hip-hop albums all year. Only three rap albums find themselves in the Top 50; T.I.'s Paperwork, Logic's Def Jam debut Under Pressure, and Stalley's Ohio. This week marks the end of Jeezy's Seen It All and Lecrae's Anomaly charting in the Top 50, and The Game's Blood Moon: Year Of The Wolf has dropped out of the Top 50 after a short two-week stint. T.I.'s Paperwork is the highest charting hip-hop album this week, dropping 12 spots from last week to No. 14, selling 23,441 copies. Logic's Under Pressure took the No. 29 spot this week, selling 12,580 copies in its second week, after selling 73,000 the previous week. Finally, Stalley's Ohio album landed at the No. 45 spot, selling only 7,537 copies of his debut album, a disappointing showing for an album that had a decent amount of promo behind it.

Outside of the rap world, Jagged Edge's eighth studio album, JE Heartbreak 2, debuted at No. 30 on the charts, selling 12,233 copies, while Chris Brown's X continues to chart, landing at the No. 41 spot this week and moving 8,354 units.

14. T.I., Paperwork, 23,441
29. Logic, Under Pressure, 12,580
30. Jagged Edge, JE Heartbreak 2, 12,233
41. Chris Brown, X, 8,354
45. Stalley, Ohio, 7,537