Taylor Swift has secured her seventh number one album in the US on Sunday evening.
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 has revealed (via Billboard)
It has been revealed as the largest debut week for an album since her own release in 2019, where ‘Lover’ debuted with 867,000 units.
7th #1: Taylor Swift has secured her seventh number one album in the US on Sunday evening
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 has revealed
Her two albums are only beaten by another of her own – Reputation, which was unveiled in 2017 and sold 1.24 million units.
Of the 846,000 album equivalent units Folklore sold, 615,000 of these units were for full album sales.
The 289.85 million streams of the tracks on the album converted to 218,000 in streaming equivalent album (SEA) units, plus 13,000 in track equivalent album (TEA) units.
Full album: Of the 846,000 album equivalent units Folklore sold, 615,000 of these units were for full album sales
Only a week in and Taylor’s new album is already 2020’s top selling album, bigger than BTS’ ‘Map of the Soul: 7’, which sold 574,000 since February.
Taylor also had a great week in the UK too, becoming the first and only female artist in the 21st century to score five number one studio albums in the UK, following Folklore topping the UK charts.
The pop icon dominated the Singles Chart too, with three of her album’s tracks making it into the top 10.
Top selling: Only a week in and Taylor’s new album is already 2020’s top selling album, bigger than BTS’ ‘Map of the Soul: 7’, which sold 574,000 since February
The songs included on the top 10 are Cardigan at number six, her Bon Iver collaboration Exile at number eight, and The 1 at number 10.
Current chart rules prevent an artist from charting more than three songs as a lead artist, but without those rules in place, tracks from ‘folklore’ would have also made it to numbers 13, 15, 18, 21, 24, 31, 36, 37, 40, 42, 45 and 51.
The singer had recently revealed she didn’t tell her friends she was making the LP, before its release on July 24.
Hit single: The songs included on the top 10 are Cardigan at number six, her Bon Iver collaboration 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 until right before the announcement,’ Swift said during a fan Q&A event.
‘It was my own secret world I’d go to and I’ve never made music like that before,’ she added.
Swift also becomes the only artist in history with seven albums to sell 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 until right before the announcement,’ Swift said during a fan Q&A event