Taylor Swift, ‘Les Miz’ start 2013 at the top of the charts

Taylor Swift couldn’t quite beat out Adele for the top-selling album of 2012, but Swift‘s “Red� is heading into 2013 on a high note. The album retains its position at the top of the U.S. pop charts, her seventh week overall in the No. 1 spot.

Swift’s Big Machine effort “Red� sold an additional 241,000 copies this week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, giving it a to-date total of 3.1 million copies sold.

As reported earlier today, Swift’s “Red� was the second-best selling album of 2012, behind Adele’s “21.� All told, album sales for 2012 were down about 4% compared with those of 2011.

Yet Swift did quite well with holiday week shoppers. Her album, for instance, was discounted to $1.99 on online retailer Amazon, purchases of which Billboard estimates accounted for nearly 30% of “Red’s� sales.

It’s worth nothing that it is Billboard policy to not typically count sales of albums that sell for less than $3.99 toward its charts -- unless they happen after an album has been available for four weeks. With “Red� in its 11th week, discount sales were fair game.

Also, Swift’s latest single, “I Knew You Were Trouble,� is the top-selling digital track of the week. The cut sold 582,000 downloads, besting out Bruno Mars’ “Locked Out of Heaven,� which sold 497,000 downloads.

Sales of digital singles typically skyrocket in the days after Christmas, as fans want to either cash in gift cards or load up new devices. A whopping total of 48 songs sold more than 100,000 downloads this week, compared, Billboard reports, with just 10 last week week.

The soundtrack to “Les Misérables� may not have a fan in Adam Lambert, but it’s at No. 2 this week on the pop chart. The soundtrack arrived on the chart last week at No. 33, but experienced a major gain with the Christmas Day opening of the film. Sales this week topped 135,000 copies; in two weeks, the collection has sold more than 178,000 copies.

Another soundtrack makes an entry into the top 10 this week. The audio companion to “Pitch Perfect� jumps from No. 45 to No. 10, buoyed by the release of the film on home video as well as a reissue of the album. The “Pitch Perfect� soundtrack sold 58,000 copies this week, up from about 32,000 last week. To date, it has sold 212,000 copies.

The top 5 on the U.S. pop chart was rounded out by One Direction’s “Take Me Home� at No. 3 (120,000 copies), Mars’ “Unorthodox Jukebox� at No. 4 (110,000 copies) and T.I.’s “Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head� at No. 5 (74,000 copies).

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