{"id":33734,"date":"2025-10-03T05:08:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/uncategorized\/2025\/10\/taylor-swift-is-now-the-only-female-artist-to-sell-100-million-albums\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T05:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:08:32","slug":"taylor-swift-is-now-the-only-female-artist-to-sell-100-million-albums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/taylor-swift-is-now-the-only-female-artist-to-sell-100-million-albums\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Is Now The Only Female Artist To Sell 100 Million Albums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Taylor Swift&#8217;s\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">new album,\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;The Life of a Showgirl&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, is out TODAY (October 3rd) . . . but she didn&#8217;t need it to set a new sales record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taylor is now officially the first and only female artist to surpass\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/themusicuniverse.com\/taylor-swift-becomes-the-first-female-to-surpass-100-million-riaa-certified-album-units\/\"><b>100 million<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0album sales.\u00a0 As of yesterday, she&#8217;s moved 105 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her 2014 album\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;1989&#8221;\u00a0<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is her biggest seller, with 14 million copies.\u00a0 It&#8217;s followed by 2008&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Fearless&#8221;\u00a0<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with 11 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8220;Red&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;The Tortured Poets Department&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and her self-titled debut album have all moved 8 million copies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taylor is now SIXTH of all-time, behind the\u00a0<\/span><b>Beatles\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(183 million),\u00a0<\/span><b>Garth Brooks\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(162 million),\u00a0<\/span><b>Elvis\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(146.5 million), the\u00a0<\/span><b>Eagles\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(120 million), and\u00a0<\/span><b>Led Zeppelin\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(112.5 million).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Mariah Carey\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is the second best-selling female artist with 75 million albums sold.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another record for Taylor Swift ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":17655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 15:47:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/taylor-swift-is-now-the-only-female-artist-to-sell-100-million-albums\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}