What The Hell Just Happened In Music This Week?

Taylor Swift tops the album sales chart in 2014, Kendrick Lamar dropped the video for "i," and more.

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What seemed like an impossible feat in music in 2014 became another huge victory for Taylor Swift, who sold over one million copies of her fifth studio album 1989 in its first week of release. Not only is this Swift's third straight album to sell over a million copies upon its first week of release, but it's also the largest tally in week one since Eminem's 2002 album The Eminem Show sold over 1.3 millon copies. Moreover, The sales mark makes Swift's 1989 the highest-selling album of 2014, eleven months into the year. So yeah, this is a pretty big deal.

Plus, Kendrick Lamar, Big Sean, and Bobby Shmurda drop new videos, Freddie Gibbs is shot at after a concert in New York, and Jay Z buys a luxury champagne brand he holds dear to his heart. Check out all that and more in What the Hell Just Happened in Music This Week?

Chris Brown sent shots at Adrienne Bailon and Tamar Braxton after they criticized his relationship with Karrueche.

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Freddie Gibbs was shot at following a concert in New York.

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Kendrick Lamar dropped the video for “i” and talked about his relationship with Drake.

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Taylor Swift topped the album charts, selling over one million copies of 1989.

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Jaden Smith celebrated Kendall Jenner's birthday by releasing a special 3-song EP.

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Jay Z flexed his wallet and bought Ace of Spades, his preferred champagne for the last decade.

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Lil Durk got locked up for a weapons violation.

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Azealia Banks dropped her debut album Broke With Expensive Taste out of nowhere.

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Big Sean shared the cinematic visuals for “IDFWU,” which featured cameos from Kanye West, Teyana Taylor, and DJ Mustard.

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Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, and Theophilus London's partied to Young Thug's “Danny Glover.”

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Bobby Shmurda showed off his dances moves in his latest music video “Bobby B***h.”

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