Taylor Swift picked up some serious hardware at a “Heavy Metal at the Hard Rock” party in Nashville, TN, to celebrate a list of sales, digital and radio accolades. Awards presented included #1 Radio Single and #1 Music Video (“Mine”); Taylor’s historic 1 million debut sales week (SPEAK NOW); and Taylor Swift as the highest selling artist of 2010. Here are just some of the accolades she recieved:
• For the second time in three years, Taylor Swift is Billboard & Nielsen SoundScan’s top-selling artist of the year, with over 4.4 million albums sold in 2010.
• Released in October, Speak Now sold 1,046,740 copies the first week, for the biggest debut-week sales for an album since 2005, and the biggest debut ever for a country studio album.
• Speak Now has achieved Triple Platinum+ status since its release.
• Every song from Speak Now has charted on the Billboard Hot 100, eleven of them at the same time.
• The album’s lead single, “Mine,” has sold 1.6 million digital downloads to date.
• For the second consecutive year, Taylor is Billboard’s most-played artist, topping their annual all-genre Artist Airplay chart with more than 1.128 million airplay detections in 2010.
• Taylor has sold more than 4 million albums each year for three consecutive years, and is the only artist to sell 4+ million albums each of the last three years.
• Taylor’s career sales now exceed 20 million albums and 35 million song downloads.
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