November 3, 2010
The results are in and, much like Election Night, the winner is as predicted: Taylor Swift’s Speak Now broke a million. Swift sold 1,047,000 copies last week. Nobody’s been able to sell a million copies in the first week since Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III dropped in June of 2008.
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