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Taylor Swift Just Broke A Record Nobody Thought She’d Break · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from hood Ryan Seacrest. Some might argue Taylor's swift
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Speaker 1: is the queen of country, while others might claim she's
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Speaker 1: the queen of pop. But one thing is undisputable. She's
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Speaker 1: the queen of vinyl. Taylor has just broken the record
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Speaker 1: for the best selling twelve inch record for a single
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Speaker 1: week since they started tracking vinyl sales specifically in and
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Speaker 1: it only took her three days to do it. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for the vinyl release of her latest album, ever More,
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Speaker 1: on Friday, she passed Jack White, who previously held the
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Speaker 1: record with forty copies sold of his release Lazaretto. Taylor
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Speaker 1: did benefit from the fact that Evermore, which was released
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Speaker 1: back in December, was a surprise album even to her label.
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Speaker 1: They didn't have time to coordinate its vinyl pressing to
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Speaker 1: coincide with that release, so patient fans back ordered it
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Speaker 1: and all those sales count towards its one week tally.
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Speaker 1: Vinyl album sales have been steadily climbing for fifteen consecutive
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Speaker 1: years now, while other formats like CDs and cassettes have
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Speaker 1: all but disappeared. They now account for scent of all
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Speaker 1: albums sales, including digital purchases. That's direct from Hollywood,