Swift’s ‘Red’ has monster first week

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1.2 million: Number of copies of Taylor Swift’s new release “Red” that were sold in the first week of release. That gives Swift the highest opening week of the year — and the largest week of sales in a decade. This is the second time Swift has sold more than 1 million copies of an album in the debut week. The only other artist to do this was boyband *N Sync.

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