Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ Named Best-Selling Music Album Of 2014

Taylor Swift‘s 4th album,1989, has been named the best-selling music album of 2014. The feat is made more impressive considering she released the album barely 2 months to the end of the year. Swift’s1989only became the best selling album in the last week of the year, knocking the soundtrack for Disney’s hit movieFrozenoff the position it had held for the entire year. 1989ended the year selling 3.66 million copies, compared toFrozen’s3.53 million. It’s the second time Swift will have the best-selling album in a year, after she first did it in 2009 with debut album,Fearless. The top 3 was rounded out bySam Smith, whose albumIn The Lonely Hoursold 1.21 million.

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