Taylor Swift’s album is fastest-selling in a decade

TAYLOR SWIFT’s juggernaut of an album, 1989, has continued to rack up huge sales figures - and has now been crowned the fastest-selling album in a decade. 

According to data from Nielsen Music, 1989 has sold more than five million copies since its release 36 weeks ago, reaching this milestone more quickly than any album in the past 10 years.

The previous album to reach the milestone that quickly was USHER’s Confessions, which took 19 weeks to hit five million in 2004, according to Variety.