Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Vinyl sales have dropped 33 per cent in 2024 in the US
nme.comvinyl sales in the US have dropped by a third.The latest figures come as part of Billboard’s latest music consumption report, and show that record sales across America saw a 33 per cent decline in 2024.In 2023, vinyl sales were at 34.9million units, however, the latest statistics show that this has dropped to 23.3million in 2024.It isn’t just vinyl sales that have been impacted.
Both CDs and digital albums have taken a hit this year too, with the former dropping by 19.5 per cent compared to 2023, while the latter is down 8.3 per cent from where it was last year.According to the outlet’s report, album sales on the whole have seen a drop by 23 per cent – declining from 75.5million units sold in 2023 to 57.7million in 2024.
This, it highlights, is unlikely due to there being less of a demand for albums, but rather due to economic factors, with vinyl copies benign priced at roughly $40 each, and some box sets and reissues costing up to $200.The report on sales in the US tells a different story to that of UK figures this year.
Earlier this summer, it was reported that sales of physical music were on track to see their first increase in two decades, following years of being overshadowed by streaming.The stats were shared by Official Charts Company and BPI, which each reported that physical album sales have experienced a 3.2 per cent increase in the first six months of 2024 (8,044,760 units sold).This marked the first time the sector has seen an increase since 2004, when a shift to digital music consumption and streaming began.One of the largest contributors to the rise in sales was Taylor Swift‘s ‘The Tortured Poets Department‘ which saw 254,241 copies sold in the first six months of 2024.Others that aided the sales were.
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