Taylor Swift shatters records with first week sales of 1.287 million copies of '1989'

Taylor Swift has shattered records with the release of her new album '1989'.

Billboard is reporting that Taylor Swift has done the impossible and sold a baffling 1.287 million copies of ’1989′ — in its first week alone. That’s the most an album has sold in a week since 2002 when Eminem’s The Eminem Show sold 1.322 million.

With that amazing week, 1989 is now in second place for the biggest-selling album of the year, Billboard points out. It is behind the Frozen soundtrack, which has sold 3.2 million copies in 2014, but came out in 2013.

A little over two weeks ago, forecasters pegged the new album to sell 750,000 in its debut frame. Then, about a week ago (Oct. 23), it was upgraded to 800,000. By midday Oct. 27, the album's release day, its projection grew to over 900,000. The next day it was kicked up to 1 million, followed by 1.2 million on Oct. 29 and then 1.25 million on Oct. 31.

1989 is be Swift's third consecutive album to sell more than a million copies in its first week, making her the only act ever to earn three million-selling weeks. (She was already the only woman to do it twice since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991.)

Swift, for her part, celebrated by lip syncing to Kendrick Lamar in an Instagram video. Along with that, she wrote: “Industry experts predicted 1989 would sell 650k first week. You went and bought 1.287 million albums. AND IT’S GOT ME LIKE:”