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James Taylor Outsells Everyone Else In The USA

by Roger Wink, VVN Music on June 23, 2015

in New Music,News,Noise Pro

Not only did James Taylor win the sales race this week, he also blew away all of the other competition.

Hits Daily Double has issued its weekly projections based on a sampling of record stores and estimate that Taylor’s Before This World moved about 94,900 copies, beating Adam Lambert’s Original High by over 2x. Lambert is projected to have sold 41,100 copies while Hilary Duff’s Breathe In, Breathe Out is in third with estimated sales of 33,000

When streaming is added to the totals, Taylor moves up to 96,600, still more than double the second place album, Taylor Swift’s 1989 with 46,100. Lambert is third on the sales + streaming tally with 44,300.

The album becomes Taylor’s first number 1 of his career. His previous best was 1971’s Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon which peaked at number 2.

The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers deluxe reissue drops 5 to 18 in sales, with projected 12,800 units, down a normal 57%. When streaming is added in, the album goes 5 to 41 with 14,100 unites.

Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard are holding well with Django and Jimmie, down only 7% to sales of 11,700, going 20 to 23. With streaming, it moves 38 to 50 on equivalent sales of 12,000.

Final charts come out on Thursday.

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