With streaming and downloads of individual songs factored in, “Reputation” ends its first week with the equivalent of 1,238,000 in sales by the industry’s current formula. The platinum-selling week for “Reputation” is also the first since Adele’s “25,” which had three million-plus sales weeks in late 2015. (Of the 925,000 copies the album sold in its first three days, more than 600,000 were downloads.) The debut of “Reputation” is Ms. Swift’s second-best sales week ever, just short of the 1,287,000 copies her previous album, “1989,” sold in its first week in 2014. Sales of “1989” dropped 69 percent in its second week, to 402,000 copies, but the album managed to notch a total of 11 weeks at No.

Source: New York Times November 21, 2017 14:15 UTC