(Billboard) – Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ should easily lock up a second week at No 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart next week. Industry sources suggest the album could sell more than 350,000 copies in the week ending November 9.
The Big Machine Records release blasted in at No 1, selling 1.287 million copies in the week ending November 2, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
If ‘1989’ sells more than 350,000 copies in its second frame, it will mark the third-biggest week of the year (behind ‘1989’s’ debut, and Coldplay’s arrival with ‘Ghost Stories’: 383,000).
Swift’s last album, Red, debuted with 1.208 million and held at No. 1 for a second week with 344,000.
The new Billboard 200’s top 10 will be revealed on Wednesday, November 12.
No other album will likely threaten ‘1989’s’ second week at No 1. The biggest debut of the week will likely be Calvin Harris’ new album ‘Motion’, which might sell 35,000 copies.
