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Nobody Thought These Streaming Numbers Were Even Possible, and Then Taylor Swift Dropped ‘Tortured Poets Society’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: The numbers are in and to nobody surprised. Taylor Swift
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  Speaker 2: the Torture Post Department had an incredible first week of sales,
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  Speaker 2: but they were even more impressive than experts predicted. Taylor
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  Speaker 2: ended up moving more than two point six million units,
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  Speaker 2: which is the best week by anybody in nine years,
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  Speaker 2: and the best Sinse Adele, who's twenty five albums sold
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  Speaker 2: nearly three and a half million units. But Adele reached
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  Speaker 2: that phenomenal tally in the era before streaming became the
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  Speaker 2: bread and butter the music industry, and it's widely believed
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  Speaker 2: that it's statistically impossible to reach that high number. Again,
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  Speaker 2: give you a bit of perspective on just how impressive
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  Speaker 2: Taylor's two point six million units is. Her own second
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  Speaker 2: best week was with nineteen eighty nine's Tailors version last year,
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  Speaker 2: which moved one point six million units, a full million
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  Speaker 2: less than the Torture Posts Department, which is out now.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,