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Why Taylor Swift’s Lucky Number 13 Is Particularly Meaningful This Week · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift has been on top of the pop music
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Speaker 2: world for quite some time now. Twenty twenty three undoubtedly
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Speaker 2: go down as the year that belonged to her, and
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Speaker 2: she's just managed to squeeze in yet another monumental achievement,
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Speaker 2: with Taylor's version of nineteen eighty nine just debuting to
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Speaker 2: a monster week on the charts. Thirteen is famously her
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Speaker 2: lucky number, and the re recording just fittingly became her
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Speaker 2: thirteenth number one album and enjoyed the best debut week
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Speaker 2: since Adell's twenty five back in twenty fifteen. It also
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Speaker 2: became the highest sales week of Taylor's career by besting
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Speaker 2: the original version of nineteen eighty nine, moving over one
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Speaker 2: point six million units, and that includes a massive one
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Speaker 2: point three million physical album sales. Keep in mind an
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Speaker 2: air of streaming outside of a dell, that number of
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Speaker 2: hard copies is unheard of, but even before streaming took over,
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Speaker 2: it's still a landmark week. In fact, since nineteen ninety one,
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Speaker 2: when album sales first began getting tracked digitally, Taylor's new
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Speaker 2: mark stands as this sixth best physical album sales week
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Speaker 2: of all time.
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