Taylor Swift's Red is set to break through 2 million US sales in the next fortnight after securing a third week leading the Billboard 200 chart.

Red sold another 196,000 copies last week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, to take its cumulative tally to 1.75 million copies as it claimed a lead of nearly 100,000 sales over its nearest rival - newly-issued compilation Now 44. That sold 99,000 units to debut at 2.

Although nowhere in the same league as Swift's album, ...