Taylor Swift’s latest re-recording of “1989” is the number one selling album in 2023 — less than a week after its release — and leads the streaming album charts with more than 1.6 million units sold in the U.S. and 3.5 million units globally.
The 33-year-old singer’s re-recorded version of her 2014 album topped the Billboard 200 and she’s made history becoming the first artist to have six number one albums with more than one million units sold domestically, the Hollywood Reporter reported.
Taylor’s Version of “1989” even surpassed the first week of sales of the 2014 version, making it the first of her re-recorded albums to score a bigger debut than the original ones, the outlet noted.
The new “1989” marks the fourth album the “Shake It Off” hitmaker has re-recorded in order to control her master recordings after Scooter Braun bought them from Big Machine Records.
The “Evermore” hitmaker’s success from re-recording her earlier albums has sparked record…