Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” Defies Competition

By Irene Collins
01:19, January 22nd 2009
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Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” Defies Competition

Taylor Swift’s album “Fearless” (Big Machine) enjoyed its seventh week on the first position of the album sales chart, according to Billboard. Despite the fact that the album, the follow-up to the 19-year-old singer’s self-titled debut, sold just 63,000 copies last week, it still managed to beat Beyonce’s “I Am….Sasha Fierce” (Music World/Columbia) by 14,000 sales. The latter sold 49,000 copies. Canadian rock band Nickelback's "Dark Horse“(Roadrunner) slipped one place to Number 3 with 46,000 copies sold.

This is the first time that a record has done so since 2004, when Usher’s “Confessions” spent nine weeks at Number 1. "Fearless" also becomes the longest-running No. 1 album by a solo female vocalist since Alanis Morissette wore the crown for 12 weeks in 1995 with "Jagged Little Pill."

The week’s top debut was the soundtrack to “Notorious” (Bad Boy), a movie about the rapper Notorious B.I.G. The record, featuring tracks by Notorious B.I.G. as well as by Jay-Z, Faith Evans, Jadakiss and Santogold, took fourth place, with 43,000 sales. Kanye West's "808s and Heartbreak" fell two places to No. 5 with 40,000 copies.

Rounding out the Top 10 are the "Twilight" soundtrack at No. 6 with 36,000 copies sold; Britney Spears' "Circus" at No. 7 with 34,000 copies; Jamie Foxx's "Intuition" at No. 8 with only slightly less than Spears' total; Keyshia Cole's "A Different Me" at No. 9 with 31,000 copies; and "American Idol" victor David Cook's self-titled debut at No. 10 with just shy of Cole's total.
 



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