Taylor Set for Swift Debut

Taylor mania has hit the country once again as Red is flying off store shelves left and right and already breaking records. By Wednesday, Swift is expected to sell over one million copies in one week, a feat that is rarely achieved these days and a feat in which only 17 others have ever done in music history.

Current predictions are for Red to sell at least 1.1 million copies by Wednesday, which comes as no surprise since first day sales were over 500,000 copies. This will easily put Swift at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart, where she will make history as the first female artist to ever have two albums sell over one million copies in one week. She joins the ranks of boy bands N*SYNC and the Backstreet Boys, as well as rapper Eminem, as the only acts to have more than one album sell over one million copies in one week.

Swift isn’t just breaking records on the albums chart. Red is expected to break the one-week sales record in the iTunes store, as well as at Target stores. The lead single from the album, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”, likely helped boost sales for the album as it spent 3 weeks at the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in September.

Back in the fall of 2010, Taylor’s album Speak Now sold 1.047 copies in its first week and went on to sell well over 4 million copies, as well as winning several Grammy awards. Red already seems well on its way to a similar, and perhaps even more successful path. Final first week numbers will be released Wednesday at www.billboard.com.