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Taylor Swift Helps Lift UK Vinyl and CD Music Sales to Half-Year High


UK music sales are up nearly 8% in 2024 so far, with Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department lifting vinyl and CD totals to sizable gains.

Released in April, Swift’s eleventh studio set The Tortured Poets Department is the singer’s fastest-selling album in the U.K., shifting the equivalent of 270,000 units across all formats in its first seven days, according to Official Charts Company (OCC) data. 1 in the United Kingdom — surpassing Swift’s previous best chart run of five weeks at the summit with 2022’s Midnights — making it the biggest-selling album in the country so far this year by some distance. In total, Swift had six of the Top 20 best-selling albums across all formats (digital and physical) in the U.K. during the sales period, including fan favorites 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Lover, Midnights and Folklore.

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