Pop-Country Star Shatters Female Digital Records

Billboard has confirmed that Taylor Swift has broken and set the new record for female digital downloads in a week. Her latest single, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” from her anticipated upcoming album Red shattered records by selling 623,000 digital downloads in a week. This allowed the single to debut as No. 1 on the Billboard Digital Songs Charts.

Swift not only holds the record for a female but she is No. 2 on the overall chart, just behind Flo Rida’s “Right Round,” which sold 636,000 on the chart back in 2009. Other females at the top before Swift dethroned them included Ke$ha’s “TiK ToK” (610,000) and Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” (448,000 after just 3 days).

From Billboard themselves here are the 10 top overall digital sales weeks, since SoundScan began tracking digital sales:

Sales, Title, Artist, Billboard Chart Date
636,000, “Right Round,” Flo Rida, Feb. 28, 2009
623,000, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” Taylor Swift, Sept. 1, 2012
610,000, “TiK ToK,” Ke$ha, Jan. 9, 2010
559,000, “Grenade,” Bruno Mars, Jan. 8, 2011
542,000, “Somebody That I Used To Know,” Gotye featuring Kimbra, April 28, 2012
521,000, “Boyfriend,” Justin Bieber, April 14, 2012
509,000, “Born This Way,” Lady Gaga, March 5, 2011
509,000, “Firework,” Katy Perry, Jan. 8, 2011
493,000, “Payphone,” Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa, May 5, 2012
467,000, “Low,” Flo Rida, Jan. 12, 2008

Swift’s new album, “Red,” is due out Oct. 22 on Big Machine Records.