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Taylor Swift has bumped One Direction from the summit of the US albums chart to reclaim the top spot with her hit album 1989.
The “Shake It Off” singer returned to number one after a week in second place while the British boyband enjoyed global success with their fourth consecutive chart-topper Four.
Swift’s record is now the fastest-selling album of the decade, having sold more than 2.5 million copies in the US alone since its late October release.
The 24-year-old also continues her three-week reign at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with new single “Blank Space”, which she performed at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in London earlier this week.
Taking yet another record, Swift became the first female artist to bump her own track from number one.
Importantly, 1989 is unavailable to stream for free on Spotify, meaning users must buy the songs elsewhere to listen to them.
“I’m not willing to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that I don’t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists and creators of this music,” she told Yahoo at the time.
“I didn’t like the perception that it was putting forth and so I decided to change the way I was doing things.”
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