Taylor Swift wins SEVENTH # 1 album with surprise Folklore release to top the charts
Taylor Swift got her seventh number one album in the United States on Sunday night.
The Cardigan singer’s surprise studio album Folklore topped the charts in the United States, earning 846,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 30, data from Nielsen Music / MRC revealed ( via Billboard)
It turned out to be the biggest debut week for an album since its own release in 2019, where “Lover” debuted with 867,000 units.
7th # 1: Taylor Swift got her seventh U.S. number one album on Sunday night
Folklore: The Cardigan singer’s surprise studio album Folklore topped the charts in the United States, earning 846,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 30, data from Nielsen Music / MRC
His two albums are only beaten by another, Reputation, unveiled in 2017 and sold at 1.24 million units.
Of the 846,000 units equivalent to the Folklore album sold, 615,000 of these units were intended for the sale of complete albums.
The album’s 289.85 million streams of tracks were converted to 218,000 album streaming equivalent units (SEA), plus 13,000 album track equivalent units (TEA).
Complete album: of the 846,000 units equivalent to the Folklore album sold, 615,000 of these units were intended for the sale of complete albums
It’s only a week away and Taylor’s new album is already the best-selling album of 2020, bigger than BTS’s “Map of the Soul: 7,” which has sold 574,000 since February.
Taylor also had a great week in the UK, becoming the first and only female artist of the 21st century to score five number one studio albums in the UK, after Folklore topped the UK charts.
The pop icon also topped the Singles Chart, with three of the tracks from her album making it into the top 10.
Best selling: Only a week away and Taylor’s new album is already the best-selling album of 2020, bigger than BTS’s “Map of the Soul: 7”, which has sold 574,000 since February
The songs included in the top 10 are Cardigan at number six, his Bon Iver Exile collaboration at number eight and The 1 at number 10.
The current chart rules prevent an artist from ranking more than three songs as a lead artist, but without these rules in place, “folklore” tracks would also have reached numbers 13, 15, 18, 21, 24, 31. , 36, 37, 40, 42, 45 and 51.
The singer had recently revealed that she had not told her friends she was doing the LP, before its release on July 24.
Hit single: Songs included in the top 10 are Cardigan at number six, his collaboration Bon Iver Exile at number eight and The 1 at number 10
“No one knew I was making an album. I didn’t even tell my friends about it until right before the announcement,” Swift said during a Q&A event with fans.
“It was my own secret world I went to and I had never made music like this before,” she added.
Swift also becomes the only artist in history with seven albums selling at least 500,000 copies in a single week.
No one knew, “No one knew I was making an album. I didn’t even tell my friends about it right before the announcement, ” Swift said during a Q&A event with fans.