I believe it's more like 450 million by now 🤔

Taylor Swift's sales in the USA this year were one of the biggest records that ever happened in the music world. 20.09 million units. When Michael Jackson died in 06/2009, he sold that year 8 million albums and 11 million tracks. The following year, 2010, Jackson sold 2.1 million albums. At the time, Michael Jackson's sales figures were unique and it was still a time when recordings sold quite well. Now sales have been in a slump for a long time. In addition, Swift sells expensive vinyl boxes with a high margin. Streams generate little for the artist. Country music still sells well in the US, Morgan Wallen, etc. Taylor Swift has revitalized the economy of cities wherever she goes to perform. Almost a hundred trucks have traveled around the planet, hundreds of workers, to whom Swift has paid a good salary. On the Eras tour, only 3 concerts had to be canceled due to the terrorist threat./// Right now Swift's net worth is $1,6 billion and all money comes from her art.

Today, e.g. The New York Times reported Eras-tour 149/149 revenue of 2.077 billion dollars. Is 2x bigger than the just ended Coldplay tour ($1.1 BILLION). In total, Swift's concert revenue $3.2 billion. All of Swift's numbers are all-time highs. Rolling Stones better researches the tour history of the band, it may be that the Rolling Stones are the all-time number one in tours. The Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, Pink and Beyonce are making money these days. Swift and Springsteen are big-hearted and donate big bucks, make good things go around. Swift paid the tour staff about 160 million extra. The next stage for Swift could be, say, 100 billion Spotify streams.

17th week at #1 with 228K.. 553K pure sales in the last 2 weeks in the US alone

2006-2019 Taylor had in her last update before the new decade started 88M CSPC. Now in the last 5 years she reached 230M. A gain of 142M. Also her tour revenue 2006-2019 was $1B. Now eras tour alone $2B. Next five years she will remain big. Taylor really went from Superstar success to legend level of success.

Now that TTPD Anthology physicals have been pushed, I doubt TTPD would have another pure push. She's jumped 50m since the last update, dropped 3 albums and has benefited from the reach of the largest tour of all time. Given the timing is an update to her figures on the schedule?

Chartmasters haven't yet grasped Taylor's greatness. She's already beaten Michael Jackson and Madonna's numbers. Her firepower is so great that there was an earthquake in Europe, literally. 26.6 billion streams on Spotify this year, 97 billion total streams, the most streamed artist in the world. Swift has kept physical sales alive, 7-8% of vinyl sold is Swift. Sells more physically than any other artist, over 10 times more than the older artists mentioned above.  

Happy 40m to 1989!

Can you update Fortnight's physical sales too? It easily became her biggest CD single ever

Are you guys waiting to update until she surpasses Madonna? 

We are updating relevant album sales when they happen. Even if on the surface it looks like the article is old, streams are updated daily, her pure album sales were updated as of 12/31/2024 and there are paces of sales informed so that numbers are updated daily too. That's why we aren't rushing for an update, it wouldn't change much at all!

I think Taylor Swift unlocked another milestone.

United kingdom official charts: <a href=" removed link ">Taylor Swift surpasses Madonna as female artist with most UK Number 1 albums with Lover (Live From Paris) | Official Charts

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<a href=" removed link " target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lover (Live From Paris), originally released in limited quantity in 2023, soars to the summit thanks to a new, heart-shaped 2LP vinyl variant released in time for Valentine’s Day; shifting 47,000 units.

In doing so, Lover (Live From Paris) becomes the first album to reach Number 1 on pure sales (with no streams contributing to its total) in eight years, since Taylor’s very own <a href=" removed link " target="_blank" rel="noopener">reputation in 2017. reputation was added to streaming services three weeks after its initial release on physical and download formats.

Taylor Swift’s record-breaking stat attack

• Taylor becomes first female artist ever to achieve 13 UK Number 1 albums (previously tied with Madonna at 12). See the full list of <a href=" removed link " target="_blank" rel="noopener">female artists with the most UK Number 1 albums.

• Taylor now draws level with Elvis Presley as the international artist with most UK chart-topping albums (both with 13). Only The Beatles and Robbie Williams have more (15 apiece). 

• Lover (Live From Paris) is the first album to go to Number 1 only on pure sales since Taylor’s own album reputation in November 2017. 

• Lover (Live From Paris) claims the biggest total weekly sales of a Number 1 album so far this year. 

• Lover (Live From Paris) nets biggest first week sales for a live album in over 10 years in the UK, since George Michael’s Symphonica in March 2014. 

• Lover (Live From Paris) has biggest weekly sales for a live vinyl album this century. 

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The article continues with more data, like the all-time list of artists with the most UK Number 1 albums:

IFPI has TTPD's pure at 5.6m vs. your calculation at 4.6m. Is this purely a product of IFPI being shipments vs. yours being actual consumption or is there partially an underestimation component as well?

Beyonce 108M Lady Gaga 93M Katy Perry 73M = 274M

Taylor 235M

Amazing that Taylor was frequently compared with these 3 ladies over the course of the last decade. Now her total is growing to challenge what they have combined in just about 2 years or so.