Taylor Swift Adds Another 450,000 “Poets Department” Sales This Week, For a Total of 3 Million

Taylor Swift ends a second, crazy week with the album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.

Hitsdailydouble.com says “Poets” sold 455,000 copies, including streaming. Of these, 125,000 are real CDs, LPs and downloads.

That would bring Taylor’s total to 3 million copies, with 1 million in hard sales. This week, streaming surpassed so-called physical numbers.

An entire generation has now been served Taylor Swift music. They are influenced by it, will always remember it, quote it and try to play it on some instrument.

Everyone wants to know: will this last? Some of it will be, yes. Not the endless volumes of break-up songs. But a few things will stick around and one day – apart from the inevitable box sets of more lost songs and demos, B-sides and extra lyrics – there will be a Greatest Hits with twelve songs. And those numbers will survive the balance of it all. “Lover,” “Anti-Hero,” “Blank Space,” “Shake it Off,” “You Have to Calm Down,” “Betty,” “Love Song” and “All Too Well” will make the grade. And, I think, “Fifteen days.”