Taylor Swift’s 1989 released in October of 2014, sold 1.27 million albums in its first week and debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. By the end of the year it had sold 3,660,000 copies, remaining at the top of the chart for most of that time.

The album remained at or near the top of the charts throughout the first half of 2015. Through this June it has sold a total of 4,950,000 copies sitting at #2 on the charts just behind James Taylor’s Before This World, which debuted at #1—his first #1 album.