1989

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Taylor Swift: 1989 CD" (in German). jpc. Archived from the original on July 28, 2019 . Retrieved October 27, 2014. IRMA Best of Albums 2014". Irish Recorded Music Association. Archived from the original on February 3, 2019 . Retrieved February 25, 2016. End of Year Album Chart Top 100 – 2021". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on February 21, 2022 . Retrieved January 5, 2022. Wildest Dreams" is my favorite from the album. Even though it is Max Martin-ed, Taylor's vocals are soothing, the material is introspective and personal, and if you just close your eyes while listening to it, you can picture what's going on. This needs to be a single since it's a surefire hit. 10/10a b c d Light, Alan (December 5, 2014). " Billboard Woman of the Year Taylor Swift on Writing Her Own Rules, Not Becoming a Cliche and the Hurdle of Going Pop". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 26, 2014 . Retrieved February 27, 2019. Album Chart" (in Korean). Gaon Music Chart. Archived from the original on October 9, 2021 . Retrieved October 8, 2021. a b c d e f g Zollo, Paul (February 12, 2015). "The Oral History of Taylor Swift's 1989". The Recording Academy. Archived from the original on April 4, 2016 . Retrieved February 27, 2019– via Cuepoint.

Garibaldi, Christina (October 27, 2014). "Here Are the Secret Messages Hidden in 1989". MTV News. Archived from the original on July 26, 2017 . Retrieved October 11, 2020. Clean" is a deep song about becoming sober from not a drug but a relationship gone south. Purging all the things you're holding onto, finally moving on from the things you did like. Taylor wrote this one with Imogen Heap and it's one of the most personal, finely-crafted songs on the album, closing it on a high note. 9/10 Legaspi, Althea (September 17, 2021). "Taylor Swift Surprise-Releases 'Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version)' for Avid TikTokers". Rolling Stone . Retrieved August 10, 2023. Wyróżnienia – Platynowe płyty CD - Archiwum - Przyznane w 2015 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. December 15, 2015 . Retrieved December 15, 2015.

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Best Albums of the Decade (2010–19)". Metacritic. January 11, 2020. Archived from the original on March 26, 2023 . Retrieved November 3, 2023. TOP 40 STRANIH – TJEDAN 5. 2015". Hrvatska Diskografska Udruga. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016 . Retrieved March 29, 2022. Shake It Off" is the first single and is lyrically a weaker version of "Mean." Its production is something very different, especially given how unnatural Taylor's voice sounds. That being said, the tune is delightfully catchy and being like "Mean" isn't a bad thing. This is the kind of song you'll find yourself singing along to until you get tired of it, which you will. 7/10 Through November 2, 2014, 1989 debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 1.287million copies, according to data compiled by Billboard for the chart dated November 15, 2014. Swift became the first artist to have three albums each sell one million copies within the first week, and 1989 was the first album released in 2014 to exceed one million copies. [121] 1989 topped the Billboard 200 for 11 non-consecutive weeks [122] and spent the first full year after its release in the top 10 of the Billboard 200. [123] By September 2020, the album had spent 300 weeks on the chart. [124] 1989 exceeded sales of five million copies in US sales by July 2015, the fastest-selling album since 2004 up to that point. [note 3] With 6.215million copies sold by the end of 2019, the album was the third-best-selling album of the 2010s decade in the United States. [127] The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album nine-times platinum, which denotes nine million album-equivalent units. [128] As of August 2023, 1989 had accumulated 12.3million album-equivalent units in the United States. [129]