As is custom with many artists on the cusp of dropping a new album, Taylor Swift – in preparation for the October 3 release of her ‘Life of a Showgirl‘ LP -has finally had her record logs at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) refreshed.
Unlike many other artists, however, Swift’s updates are not only gargantuan but they are downright historic!
See how inside.
On Tuesday (September 30), the RIAA reported updates to 14 titles from Taylor’s already top-selling discography.
See the full list below.
- 14x Platinum
- ‘1989’ (Album)
- 11x Platinum
- ‘Fearless’ (Album)
- 8x Platinum
- ‘Red’ (Album)
- ‘Tortured Poets Department’ (Album)
- Self-Titled (Album)
- 7x Platinum
- ‘Lover’ (Album)
- ‘Midnights’ (Album)
- ‘Reputation’ (Album)
- 6x Platinum
- ‘Folklore’ (Album)
- ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’ (Album)
- 4x Platinum
- ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ (Album)
- ‘Evermore’ (Album)
- ‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’ (Album)
- ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’
While the certification updates are attached to a number of history-making achievements, two are of special note.
First, Taylor now joins a historic list of female acts with multiple Diamond albums: Madonna, Britney Spears, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Adele, and Shania Twain.
Uniquely, Swift and Adele are the only two to accomplish the feat this century.
For context, “Diamond” refers to certified sales equivalence of 10 million in the United States.
Second (and most importantly), Swift’s career-wide certified album sales in the U.S. is now at 105 million – making her the best-selling female artist in American history for albums.
For Mariah, the previous recordholder, cumulative sales sit at 68.5 million as of time reported.
It only means there are lots of white mid girls in the US 🤣 cuz no one outside of her fan base can name one song from this multi diamonds catalog.
But great for her she’s still a better role model than 98% of all pop artists out there.
But yeah, definitely got zero classics and will never be greater than the legendary Mariah Carey ❣️
Don’t recognise Taylor’s. With all them different versions. Cheat
Taylor is bigger than Mariah, Michael or the Beatles.
She is a phenomenon unlike previous idols as she has taken it to new levels of stardom. Peak Taylor is now.🔥🔥🔥🔥
She hasnt got classics and with she is fraud with all editions & streams
Taylor is more talented and didn’t need to suck a 60 year old man’s d*** for Diamond plaques 35 years ago💀
Said no one.
Taylor sucked a lot of different ones to get some inspiration. She’s boring otherwise.
You loser, lesbo Taylor has 35 different biyfriends