Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Taylor Swift Enjoys Record Week

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More than a year after the release of her debut, Taylor Swift just enjoyed her best sales week ever.

Taylor's self-titled CD sold 88,342 units this past week, a 36 percent increase from last week, and her biggest sales week since its release in October 2006. In the three weeks since she performed at the Country Music Association awards and won the Horizon Award, Taylor scanned 220,823 albums, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Taylor's current single, "Our Song," is first on the Country Digital sales chart and sixth on Billboard's Country Singles chart and is her fastest moving single to date. Her single "Teardrops on My Guitar," which reached No. 2 on the country charts earlier this year, is currently in the Top 25 on Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 chart. Her rendition of "Last Christmas," from her Christmas EP Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection", is now first on Mediabase's Top 25 Current Most-Played Christmas Songs.

Taylor will join Akon, Quincy Jones and Linkin Park tomorrow morning to announce the nominations for the "50th Annual Grammy Awards." The Grammys will air live on CBS from Los Angeles on February 10, 2008.