{"id":54241,"date":"2025-10-01T13:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/54241\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T13:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:46:11","slug":"riaa-taylor-swift-breaks-mariah-careys-record-for-best-selling-female-album-artist-by-becoming-first-woman-to-surpass-100-million-sold-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/54241\/","title":{"rendered":"RIAA: Taylor Swift Breaks Mariah Carey&#8217;s Record for Best-Selling Female Album Artist By Becoming First Woman to Surpass 100 Million Sold in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2025\/09\/riaa-taylor-swift-breaks-mariah-careys-record-for-best-selling-female-album-artist-by-becoming-first-woman-to-surpass-100-million-sold-in-usa\/\" class=\"post-image-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mariah-carey-thatgrapejuice-2025-taylor-swift-riaa-diamond-600x300.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As is custom with many artists on the cusp of dropping a new album, <a href=\"http:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/category\/taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a> \u2013 in preparation for the October 3 release of her \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2025\/08\/taylor-swift-unveils-the-life-of-showgirl-tracklist-cover-release-date\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Life of a Showgirl<\/a>\u2018 LP -has finally had her record logs at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) refreshed.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike many other artists, however, Swift\u2019s updates are not only gargantuan but they are downright historic!<\/p>\n<p>See how inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Tuesday (September 30), the RIAA reported updates to 14 titles from Taylor\u2019s already top-selling discography.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">See the full list below.<\/p>\n<p>14x Platinum<\/p>\n<p>11x Platinum<\/p>\n<p>8x Platinum<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Red\u2019 (Album)<br \/>\n\u2018Tortured Poets Department\u2019 (Album)<br \/>\nSelf-Titled (Album)<\/p>\n<p>7x Platinum<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Lover\u2019 (Album)<br \/>\n\u2018Midnights\u2019 (Album)<br \/>\n\u2018Reputation\u2019 (Album)<\/p>\n<p>6x Platinum<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Folklore\u2019 (Album)<br \/>\n\u2018Red (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u2019 (Album)<\/p>\n<p>4x Platinum<\/p>\n<p>\u20181989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u2019 (Album)<br \/>\n\u2018Evermore\u2019 (Album)<br \/>\n\u2018Speak Now (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u2019 (Album)<br \/>\n\u2018Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2025\/09\/riaa-taylor-swift-breaks-mariah-careys-record-for-best-selling-female-album-artist-by-becoming-first-woman-to-surpass-100-million-sold-in-usa\/\" class=\"post-image-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/taylor-swift-life-of-a-showgirl-movie-tgj-600x399.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the certification updates are attached to a number of history-making achievements, two are of special note.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First, Taylor now joins a historic list of female acts with multiple Diamond albums: Madonna, Britney Spears, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Adele, and Shania Twain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uniquely, Swift and Adele are the only two to accomplish the feat this century.<\/p>\n<p>For context, \u201cDiamond\u201d refers to certified sales equivalence of 10 million in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2025\/09\/riaa-taylor-swift-breaks-mariah-careys-record-for-best-selling-female-album-artist-by-becoming-first-woman-to-surpass-100-million-sold-in-usa\/\" class=\"post-image-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mariah-carey-here-for-it-all-tgj-600x600.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Second (and most importantly), Swift\u2019s career-wide certified album sales in the U.S. is now at 105 million \u2013 making her the best-selling female artist in American history for albums.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Mariah, the previous recordholder, cumulative sales sit at 68.5 million as of time reported.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.riaa.com\/gold-platinum\/?tab_active=default-award&amp;se=taylor+swift#search_section\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As is custom with many artists on the cusp of dropping a new album, Taylor Swift \u2013 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