Taylor Swift tops album chart for fourth week

Howard Robertson
03 January 2009

In its 5 weeks of

release, it has sold 2.11 million copies, making it the third-biggest seller of the year, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Britney Spears' "Circus" was up one to No three with 203,000. Nickelback's "Dark Horse" rose 2 to No four with 177,000 copies. Kanye West's "808s and Heartbreak" jumped 6 to No five with 165,000 units. The soundtrack to "Twilight" was up one to No six with 148,000 copies. After a No two debut last week, Keyshia Cole's "A Different Me" dropped to No seven with 127,000. Jamie Foxx's "Intuition," also in its 2nd week, dropped to No nine with 105,000.

"hits compilation rose 2 to No eight with 122,000. "American Idol" champion David Cook's self-titled major-label debut rose 3 to No ten with 101,000. In this last chart week of 2008, sales totaled 17.02 million, up 17% compared to the final week of 2007. However, the week ending December twenty-eight, 2008 included 3 full days of pre-Christmas shopping. The final week of 2007 ended December thirty, and only contained one day of last minute vacation shopping. There were 428.4 million albums sold this year, down 14.4% compared to 2007's 500.5 million. Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" was the top seller of the year with 2.87 million copies, followed by Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" with 2.14 million.

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