Taylor Swift’s Folklore album breaks the charts

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Taylor Swift new album Folklore is breaking charts

Taylor Swift’s fantasy-streaked eighth studio album Folklore — recorded in secrecy in quarantine and released on July 24 with only a few hours’ notice — has logged some records, just about a week after its release.

Nielsen Music said the album recorded the sales-and-streams equivalent of 846,000 copies in the United States in its first week of availability.

That’s the biggest opening for any record this year — and the biggest sales week for any album since Swift’s 2019 LP, “Lover,” which notched 867,000 copies in September.

“Folklore’s” strong commercial showing was more than enough to secure a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200, 30-year-old Swift’s seventh visit to the chart’s top spot.Among female artists, only Barbra Streisand and Madonna have scored more No. 1 albums, with 11 and nine, respectively.

The Beatles, as Billboard points out, are the all-time leaders, with 19 chart-toppers.

Of “Folklore’s” first-week copies, 615,000 registered as full-album sales in either a digital or physical format, which makes the album 2020’s biggest seller after just a week.

The previous leader, “Map of the Soul: 7” by K-pop’s BTS, has sold 574,000 copies in the U.S. since it came out in February.

Swift’s label, Republic Records, said global sales for “Folklore” have passed 2 million.

Those sales numbers aren’t unusual for one of the few superstar artists still capable of inspiring fans to pay for downloads and CDs. (“Lover” sold 679,000 copies in its first week of availability.)

Yet “Folklore’s” impressive streaming stats — the LP’s songs racked up 289.9 million streams, according to Nielsen — suggest that as Swift, who’s famously bickered with streaming services over payments, has finally embraced (and been embraced by) the format that now dominates music consumption.

Billboard said “Folklore” had the biggest streaming week of any non-rap album released this year, with only Juice Wrld’s “Legends Never Die” and Lil Uzi Vert’s “Eternal Atake” having racked up more streams.

Swift made the rootsy “Folklore” remotely with new collaborators led by Aaron Dessner of the Brooklyn indie-rock band the National, who told Pitchfork that Swift texted him in April and asked if he wanted to write songs together. —Los Angeles Times

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