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‘Tortured Poets Department’ Breaks Record for Weekly Vinyl Sales in Just Three Days, as Taylor Swift Sells 700,000 LPs Over a Weekend
Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets Department' didn't need seven days to set a record for most vinyl sales in a week; it did it in three, with 700,000.
It’s possible that there were albums that sold more than 700,000 vinyl copies in a week back in the ’60s, ’70s or early ’80s, when LPs were the dominant format for consumption of music, but that data wasn’t being collected then. Three of the four main vinyl variants were advertised as limited editions that would only be available for a short time and only via Swift’s webstore, before they ended up being put back up on sale there near release date and also made available to brick-and-mortar retailers. Ten years ago, in June 2014, it was rocker Jack White who was making headlines for setting a new record for the most vinyl sales of a title in a week.
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