Monday, November 2, 2009

Taylor Shatters Billboard Record for Longest Charting Album of This Century


This week, Taylor's self-titled debut album "Taylor Swift" has officially been announced as Billboard's longest charting album of the CENTURY by Spending its 157th week on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart, more weeks on the chart than any album this decade, surpassing the record previously held by Nickelback. Congratulations Taylor!! You deserve everything!

Read the article Big Machine Records posted below!

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Taylor Swift enters the history books this week, claiming the Billboard record for the longest charting album of this century.

Released in October of 2006, Taylor’s self-titled debut CD now spends its 157th week on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart, more weeks on the chart than any album this decade, surpassing the record previously held by Nickelback. Taylor also holds the Billboard record for most Top 10 debuts in a calendar year, and is the only solo female act in the 44-year history of the Billboard Country Chart to score five Top 10 singles from a debut album. Taylor holds the Billboard record for the longest-charting female Country star in the Nielsen SoundScan era, and is also the only Country artist in history to have a #1 single on Billboard's Nielsen BDS Hot 100 Airplay chart (which incorporates airplay from all formats).
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1 comment:

  1. WRONG-Maybe of the decade NOT CENTURY-Who are the morons saying this
    1973
    Mar 17, 1973 - The longest-charting album in Billboard history is Dark Side of the Moon from Pink Floyd. It first appeared in the Top 200 on March 17, 1973 and stayed there for 736 weeks (14 years)!

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