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Taylor Swift Regains Top Spot On Billboard 200 Chart; Nicki Minaj's "Pinkprint" Debuts At No. 2

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(Photo : Reuters) Known almost as much for singing about her exes as she is for her talent, singer Taylor Swift answered her critics, calling them sexist.

Taylor Swift's 1989 album is back on top of the U.S. Billboard 200 chart Wednesday. Not even Nicki Minaj could outdo the country-turned-pop superstar.

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After two months, 1989 made another 375,000 units this week, with album sales already exceeding 3.36 million units, making it the second best-selling album of 2014.

1989 has already six non-consecutive weeks  on the No. 1 spot, spending a total of eight weeks on the charts all in all. The album sold 331,000 copies, 433,000 songs, figures from Nielsen SoundScan can reveal. Surprisingly, there was no stream sale!

The 25-year-song singing sensation is one of the very few celebrities who protest streaming sites. She has actually pulled out her catalog from the popular streaming site, Spotify.

Minaj's, The Pinkprint, meanwhile, landed the No. 2 spot on its debut week, with 194,000 albums, or 244,000 "units" sold.  

Billboard has recently revised its manner of computing album sales and in determining who makes it on the charts. The charting magazine now counts 10 songs as equal to one album unit, while 1,500 online streams equals one album unit.

This method has been introduced to represent a more realistic music consumption, Billboard explained, given that album sales have been on a steady slip amidst the increasing music downloads and Internet streaming.

D'Angelo makes a stunning come back after 14 years away from the scene as his collaboration with Vanguard to come up with Black Messiah reached No. 5 with 117,000 sales.

Last week's chart-topper, J. Cole's 2014 Forest Hills Drive placed No. 4 with 135,000 total sales units.

A cappella quintet Pentatonix still remains steady at No. 3, with its album That's Christmas to Me making 214,000 sales.

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