Taylor Swift's '1989' Topples 'Frozen' As Top Selling Album of 2014

It's been a good year for Taylor Swift as her latest album "1989" has beaten out the "Frozen" soundtrack for the top selling album of 2014.

According to Time, Taylor's album, released by Big Machine Records, sold over 3.66 million copies worldwide after only nine weeks on the market, and while "Frozen" had the title for most of the year, it came in second place in the final week as it sold only a few thousand copies shy of Taylor's, at 3.53 million.

"Frozen" soundtrack managed to hold on to the top spot as the best selling album of 2014 for every single tracking week of the year, said The Hollywood Reporter, however, during the final frame that ended in December 28, "1989" overtook the top spot as it sold 326,000 copies compared to Frozen's 64,000, which secured Taylor's spot overall.

This is not the first time that the country-turned-pop star nabbed the year's best-selling album. She first did so in 2009 for her sophomore record, "Fearless," which sold 3.22 million.

In the last week for Billboard, the Los Angeles Times noted that no new albums were able to enter the Top 10, however, Nicki Minaj's "Pinkprint" nabbed the No. 2 spot, followed by Pentatonix's "That's Christmas to Me" and One Direction's "Four" at Nos. 3 and 4, followed by Sam Smith's "In the Lonely Hour" at No. 5.

Billboard has noted that of the more than two decades that Neilsen Music recorded music sales, there has only been one instance where an album pulled the rug out from another during the final frame of the year, when in 1994, "The Lion King" soundtrack overtook Ace of Base's "The Sign" with 4.93 million albums sold, compared to the 4.92 of the latter.

The magazine has also noted that "Frozen" and "1989" are the only two albums this year which reached the three million mark. Last year, the top selling album, Justin Timberlake's "The 20/20 Experience" only sold a total of 2.43 million.

Despite the data for top album, however, 2013 was still a better year for music than 2014, as the previous year was reported to have tallied 45 albums that sold over 500,000 copies, 13 of which sold over a million, as compared to the 31 titles from 2014 that sold 500,000 copies, with only four reaching the million-copy mark.

What do you think of Taylor Swift's final hurrah for 2014? Does "1989" deserve the top spot for music? Did she deserve to win this one for her music, or is there a better album that we totally overlooked over the past twelve months?