Guess Who Had 2014’s Top Album?

31 Dec, 2014

Leave it to Taylor Swift to crash Disney’s Frozen party.

It came down to the wire, but in the final week of 2014, Swift’s 1989 finishes as the year’s top selling album. After only nine weeks on sale, Swift’s set stole the title away from Walt Disney Records’ Frozen soundtrack in the very last tracking frame of the year.

1989  sold 3.66 million copies in 2014, according to Nielsen Music, while the Frozen album shifted 3.53 million. (Nielsen’s 2014 tracking year ran from Dec. 30, 2013 through Dec. 28, 2014.)

The Frozen soundtrack was the year-to-date top selling album of 2014 in every single tracking week of the year, except for the final frame (ending Dec. 28). In the week previous (Dec. 21), 1989’s tally stood at 3.34 million, while Frozen was at 3.46 million.

But, with one final week left on the calendar — the most recent tracking week — it seemed 1989 would overtake Frozen. And, it did.

In the week ending Dec. 28, 1989 sold 326,000 copies, while Frozen moved 64,000, thus easily securing Swift the year’s top seller.

This is the second time Swift has earned the top selling album of a calendar year. She did it previously back in 2009 with her second studio album, Fearless, which moved 3.22 million that year.

1989 and Frozen are the only two albums to sell more than 3 million copies in 2014.

Sam Smith’s In the Lonely Hour is 2014’s No. 3 seller (1.21 million), followed by Pentatonix’s That’s Christmas To Me (1.14 million).

Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack is 2014’s No. 5 seller (898,000).

The rest of the top 10 were

Beyonce’s self-titled album No. 6 best seller (878,000)

Barbra Streisand’s Partners (856,000),

Lorde’s Pure Heroine (841,000)

One Direction’s Four (814,000)

Eric Church’s The Outsiders (811,000) at number 10

Billboard 

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