On the Charts: Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ Is 2017’s Top Album With Platinum Week
scored the best-selling week of 2017 – and became the year’s highest-selling album in total so far – as the singer’s latest Number One LP sold over 1.2 million copies in its debut week.
Reputation marked the fourth time Swift crossed the platinum plateau in an opening week – following 2010’s Speak Now, 2012’s Red and 2014’s 1989 – making her the first artist to achieve four million-selling weeks, Billboard reports. Reputation also notched the 10th best sales week in Nielsen Music history.
According to Nielsen, Reputation sold an astonishing 41 percent more albums than the other 199 albums on this week’s Billboard 200…