Swift Leads Digital Download Sales Race

According to the RIAA’s latest tally, Taylor Swift is the top-selling digital single artist with over 22.5 million career song downloads to date.

Though it is early in 2011, she is facing competition for the most career downloads from Lady Gaga (20 million digital singles as of February), Rihanna (19 million) and the Black Eyed Peas (17.5 million).

Swift sold more digital downloads during the past decade (2000-2009) than any other RIAA certified artist.

Additionally, all three of Swift’s Big Machine Records albums are RIAA certified triple-Platinum or higher with Taylor Swift (2006) 4x multi-Platinum, Fearless (2008) 6x-multi Platinum, and Speak Now 3x multi-Platinum.