Of the record, more than 3.5 million copies have been sold in the United States since Friday, American media report on the basis of figures from Luminate. The data company has been measuring the American sales data since 1991.

The twelfth studio album by Swift pushes 25 van de Throne, of which nearly 3.4 million copies were sold in the first week in 2015. From The Life of A Showgirl, 2.7 million units were sold only on the first day.

The album already broke several other records, including the Spotify record for most streamed album in one day with an average of 20 million streams per song. Leadsingle The Fate of Ophelia became the most streamed song in one day with 30.9 million.

Swift also set a new vinyl record. Never before have more than 1.2 million copies sold in one week since 1991. Swift broke her own record that she put down with her previous album The Tortured Poets Department.

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