Taylor Swift's REPUTATION Album Is The First To Sell Two Million Copies Since Adele's 25

Taylor Swift's reputation album is the first album to sell two million copies since Adele's 25, Entertainment Weekly reports.

According to numbers released by Nielsen Music (via Billboard), Swift's reputation sold 5,000 copies for the week ending March 15, thus pushing it over the 2 million mark in sales. That makes reputation the first album since Adele's 25, released in 2015, to break that mark.

Reputation is Swift's sixth album to hit 2 million in sales, following 1989, Red, Speak Now, Fearless, and her self-titled debut album. Taylor Swift is the only artist in history to have three albums selling over one million copies in their first week of release (2010's Speak Now, 2012's RED and 2014's1989). Taylor is a ten-time GRAMMY winner, a singer, songwriter, musician and producer. She is the youngest person in history to win the music industry's highest honor, The GRAMMY Award for Album of the year and she is the first female solo artist to win this prestigious award twice.

Rolling Stone listed Taylor as one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Time magazine has named her one the of the 100 Most Influential People in the world and one of only eight candidates for their most prestigious honor, 2014 Person of the Year. A Brit and Emmy award winner, Taylor is Billboard's youngest-ever Woman of the Year and the only artist to have been awarded this honor twice.

Taylor Swift's Reputation Tour will launch in Arizona this May.

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