So Taylor's album prices extracted from her own site are: CD £11.99p Cass £16.99p Vinyl £29.99 Plus downloads £10.99p

So the total retail price (excluding streams) is £6,326,487.25p

Breakdown: £2,333,206.04p £45,057.48p £3,766,504.08p £181,719.65p.

My only criticism for Taylor is how many of those CD’s and Vinyl were from her store? I would guess over 80%. She didn’t do anything special for record stores or HMV and as easily the bigger physical seller of music, Taylor and her team should be doing more to support physical retailers.

31 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:

Why give a random sales total for 'Naive' and nothing else?

Pretty quiet week and it's back in the top 75 for the first time in 13 years - think he also meant to give the weekly figure but it doesn't quite add up (it may well be the SCR figure as opposed to its adjusted ACR figure)

1 minute ago, BREAKTHETENSION said:

My only criticism for Taylor is how many of those CD’s and Vinyl were from her store? I would guess over 80%. She didn’t do anything special for record stores or HMV and as easily the bigger physical seller of music, Taylor and her team should be doing more to support physical retailers.

I agree! She also had the orange vinyl up for pre-order for ages before retailers were 'allowed' to have it up for pre-order. I think that's so harsh on the independents personally it wouldn't of harmed to have a 'indie's' UK exclusive to help out the independents I can't imagine they sold that many at all (Relative to her sales) because everyone had already pre-ordered from her store.

1 minute ago, BREAKTHETENSION said:

My only criticism for Taylor is how many of those CD’s and Vinyl were from her store? I would guess over 80%. She didn’t do anything special for record stores or HMV and as easily the bigger physical seller of music, Taylor and her team should be doing more to support physical retailers.

Nothing "special" perhaps but HMV is carrying all of the alternative artwork CDs as exclusives outside her store, and they have big Taylor displays, so she must do pretty well for them to devote so much shelf space to her! Obviously doesn't apply to independent record stores but I'd imagine she still sold very well for them despite the lack of anything "special".

I dont know my acoustic CD i bought from Taylors store on Sunday (when announced) already been delivered but my Perrie cd from banquet records that I bought 9 days ago only just been dispatched

If artist stores are much quicker I know whats better to support 😅

1 hour ago, Jade said:

Everything about those Taylor sales is astonishing but I'm particularly impressed that she can shift almost 200k CDs in 2025!

Over 16k downloads is quite impressive these days as well, haha.

18 minutes ago, JosephBoone said:

Pretty quiet week and it's back in the top 75 for the first time in 13 years - think he also meant to give the weekly figure but it doesn't quite add up (it may well be the SCR figure as opposed to its adjusted ACR figure)

Yep it's definitely its SCR number. Shame we didn't get a total for 'She Moves in Her Own Way' too. I'd guess it must be at 2.7m now.

Sales totals for James Morrison's previous albums would be great if they were available. 🙂

1 minute ago, Hassaan said:

Sales totals for James Morrison's previous albums would be great if they were available. 🙂

As per the post, we only have the information given!

1 hour ago, BREAKTHETENSION said:

My only criticism for Taylor is how many of those CD’s and Vinyl were from her store? I would guess over 80%. She didn’t do anything special for record stores or HMV and as easily the bigger physical seller of music, Taylor and her team should be doing more to support physical retailers.

The album was no. 11 on the Official Record Store Chart.

(The UK's biggest albums of the week in 100 UK independent record shops based on sales of CDs, vinyl and other formats.)

50 minutes ago, Hassaan said:

Sales totals for James Morrison's previous albums would be great if they were available. 🙂

Sales totals for Taylors would of been good but unfortunately we dont have them 😢 like I need ro know how fair debut is away from going platinum its her only album not to go platinum 😢 it was on 250k when TTPD was released in need know how many years it gonna take 🤣🤣

Insane album sales, wow! I bought one regular copy of the Taylor album (and four more variants for my sister who is a super-fan).

When I ordered her first album on import after a MySpace discovery I didn't really expect anything much commercially out of her potential UK career. Amazing to still be so huge that you never know quite when she's hit her peak.

Pretty impressive hold for Olivia Dean all things considered too.

One clarification on the most No.1 LPs, The Rolling Stones have also had 15 No.1's.

Unfortunately the real week of 27-09-1969 when Through The Past Darkly (Big Hits - Vol.2) climbed to No.1 does not appear in the official records. Record Retailer published the LP chart a week in arrears (from 1969 to 1979) except for the 04-10-1969 issue (when the real 27-09-1969 would've been published). That week (04-10-1969) is the one where Abbey Road debuts at No.1 which may be why they chose to not publish the real 27-09-1969 chart that week. The last week positons do reflect this missing chart and Record Mirror did publish it in the 04-10-1969 issue. However, due to the 'confusion' that would arise over the dating of the charts, the OCC has chosen to ignore this week..

You can read more about this at The Chartbook Website:

The ChartBook Website

The Missing Charts – 4 missing albums (Part 2)

This is a series of posts looking at four missing weeks in the UK Album charts from the 1960’s.  This week, the second error in 1969 and how this came to be found after fifty years. Throu…

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I reckon Now 122 or Wicked For Good will be the one to end Demon Hunters run at number 1

Does anyone know, is this the first streaming-only #1 single we've ever had? Or had it happened before?

That's some seriously impressive sales numbers for Taylor Swift.

6 minutes ago, Eric_Blob said:

Does anyone know, is this the first streaming-only #1 single we've ever had? Or had it happened before?

I think it's extremely rare if not unprecedented for anything in the chart at all to be streaming-only nevermind being #1, I can't immediately think of any other such songs. Ellie Goulding's 'River' I think is the only other #1 in the streaming era that wasn't available on iTunes but even that had a very small component of sales as it could be downloaded from Amazon (I assume it's the same for all the other Amazon exclusive songs).

edit: maybe Laufey's 'Winter Wonderland' could have been 100% streaming as well since that one was a Spotify exclusive. And I suppose there were also a few in the very early days of the streaming era when downloads were still dominant and mostly held back but some songs charted from their streams before the downloads were made available.

(funny that Taylor now has a streaming-only #1 single in the same year that she had a sales-only #1 album)

GEWAH Selects is nowhere to be seen in the album chart or compilation chart

God those sales for Taylor are truly eye-watering! She just defies all odds and gets bigger and bigger. I really thought she had peaked commercially with TTPD and now I can't even assume she's peaked with this album. Could her next album actually open even higher?!