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December 4, 2024By Michael Cader

Taylor Swift Book Sold 814,000 Copies In the First Two Days

December 4, 2024By Michael Cader

Circana Bookscan reported that Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour book sold 814,000 hardcovers on Friday and Saturday at Target stores. The WSJ had previously reported that Target ordered 2 million copies of the book, which leaves plenty in inventory for the days ahead. That makes the book the fastest-selling release of 2024, and Bookscan noted it is “the second-highest adult non-fiction release in BookScan history, just behind Barack Obama’s A Promised Land, which sold 816,300 print units in its first week of sales.” More recently, that makes it comparable to the release of Colleen Hoover’s IT STARTS WITH US two […]

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