Taylor Swift's 'Eras Tour Book' has sold 814,000 copies over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, making it the most successful debut for a nonfiction book since Barack Obama's 'A Promised Land' in 2020. However, Swift sold the book exclusively through Target, bypassing other major retailers and leading to some complaints about errors in the book.
sold 814,000 copies over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Circana tracks around 85% of the print market, but the “Eras” numbers are more precise: Swift sold the book exclusively through Target , which launched the “Eras” tie-in on Black Friday.
Sales soared even as Swift skipped Amazon.com and other retailers and as some fans complained online that the book included typos and other errors. Representatives for Target and Swift did not immediately respond to requests Wednesday for comment.As measured by Circana, which does not include audio and e-book sales, the only nonfiction book to have a better debut than “Eras” is the first volume of Barack Obama's presidential memoirs.
"The Swift Effect" examines how superstar singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has built her brand into an economic engine that has redefined the music business, generated billions of dollars in revenue, and influenced a range of fields. Swift has arranged exclusive, non-traditional releases before. For her “Eras” concert film, which came out in 2023, she bypassed Hollywood studios and worked directly with AMC Theatres and Cinemark Theatres. “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” has made more than $200 million at the box office and stands as the highest grossing concert movie in history.Sign up for NBC New York's News Headlines newsletter.
Even before the “Eras” book, Swift has been a mini-genre in the publishing industry, the inspiration for biographies, romance fiction, fashion, coloring books and a cocktail recipe collection, “Shake It Up.” Another top seller of 2024, according to Circana, is Wendy Loggia's “Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography,” designed in the tradition of such Little Golden favorites as “The Three Bears” and “The Whispering Rabbit.
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