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Taylor Swift’s “1989” Remake Drops 85% from Last Week But Noses Out BTS Singer’s New Hit

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The numbers are in for the week. The number 1 album? Taylor Swift’s redo of “1989.”

Swift’s album dropped 85% in sales from its stunning opening week at 1.5 million. But it still nosed out Jung Kook’s “Golden” album by 38,000 copies.

The BTS singer came in at 202K vs. Swift’s 240K.

All the hoopla about Jung Kook is just that, I’m afraid. If he were a real phenom, “Golden would have glowed.

One thing both acts have in common: their fans wanted CDs, LPs, and downloads more than they wanted to stream the albums. That’s good news since that’s where the real money is in the music biz (see my Beatles story).

Swift has 9 albums on the top 50 this week. Jimmy Buffet’s posthumous record, called “Equal Strain on All Parts,” sold around 53,000 copies — the average number for beloved legacy acts releasing late in career albums.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedmanhttps://www.showbiz411.com
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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