Taylor Swift's new album Fearless bulldozes the competition as the Big Machine album swoops in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 592,000. That's the biggest sales week for a country album since Eagles' Long Road out of Eden started with 711,000 in November 2007.

Aside from Eagles, since Nielsen SoundScan set up shop in 1991, only five other country acts have racked up bigger weeks than Swift: Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, Dixie Chicks, Tim McGraw and Rascal Flatts. Excluding Long Road, which was sold exclusively at Wal-Mart stores, Swift's bow is the best for a core country act since Rascal's Me and My Gang started with 722,000 in April 2006.

Swift was a force of nature in the digital realm, too. Fearless moved 129,000 album downloads, the fourth-biggest week for a digital album since SoundScan began tracking them in 2004.

The young country artist also has the #1 Hot Country Single with "Love Story." She closes the Billboard charts for the year of 2008 on top of the Billboard 200, Billboard Top Country Albums, and Hot Country Singles charts.

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