Taylor Swift doesn't just have the number one album this week. "Speak Now" is one of the best-selling records of the past five years. One-million-46-thousand-718 copies of Swift's CD were sold in its first week of release, accounting for 18-percent of all album sales last week and giving it a number one debut on the Billboard 200 chart. The country-pop crossover star is sharing her shock, joy, and gratitude over the accomplishment via Twitter. She tweets, quote, "I... Can't... Believe... This... You guys have absolutely lit up my world. Thank you." "Speak Now" is the first album to sell more than one-million copies in its debut week since Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter Three," which arrived in June 2008 to sales of one-million-six-thousand. It's also the best first-week since 50 Cent's "The Massacre" bowed onto the chart at number one with one-million-141-thousand copies sold in March 2005.
"Speak Now" also has the best first-week digital sales for a country project. Fans downloaded 278-thousand copies of the album to break the previous record -- which Swift set in 2008 with "Fearless." Within an hour of "Speak Now's" release on October 25th, the album was at number one on the iTunes album chart.
