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Taylor Swift Moves Lots of Albums

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  1. Melody Bot Aug 3, 2020
    Melody Bot

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    Taylor Swift has the number one album in the country. She sold buckets of albums. The full press release is in the replies.

    Taylor Swift has made history yet again. As her 5 star album folklore debuts at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 this week with over 846k equivalent albums making her the only artist in history to have 7 albums sell half a million copies of a studio album in a week. This marks Taylor’s seventh consecutive #1 entry on the Top 200 and 6th consecutive studio album with over 800,000 albums in the first week
 
folklore stands out as the top selling album of 2020 with global sales over 2 million worldwide and over half a billion total streams on audio and video in just one week. What’s even more impressive, it is the biggest album debut by an artist since Taylor Swift last released her award-winning album, Lover, just 11 months ago!
 
Additional stats on the release of folklore below:
 
USA
#1 Billboard 200 debut with over 846,000 albums first week
#1 Billboard Alternative Album
Biggest first week album of 2020 and since Lover in 2019
Biggest female album streaming debut of 2020 with over 300M audio+video streams
Biggest first week album streams of Taylor’s career
Taylor’s 6th consecutive album with over 800,000 copies in the first week
Only artist in history with 7 albums to sell at least 500,000 copies in a single week
Debuted Top 16 songs on Spotify US Daily Top 200 chart
“cardigan” #1 iTunes Song
“cardigan” #1 Spotify Top 200 Song
“cardigan” #1 YouTube Trending Video
 
GLOBAL
2M album equivalents sold globally first week
Over half a billion audio + video streams first week
1.3M album equivalents sold globally first day
740K albums sold in China, biggest first week since Lover
Taylor holds the Top 2 album debuts by a Western artist in China
#1 iTunes Album in 85+ countries
Biggest female album debut of 2020 in the UK
Biggest female album streaming debut of 2020 in the UK
Biggest first week album streams of Taylor’s career in the UK
First and only artist in 21st century to score five #1 studio albums in the UK
Set record for Spotify first day female album global streams (80.6M)
Set record for Apple Music 24 hour Pop album streams (35.47M)
Set record for Amazon Music Indie Alternative album first day US and Global streams
Debuted Top 5 songs on Spotify Global Daily Top 200 chart
“cardigan” debuted #1 Spotify Global Top 200 chart
“cardigan” had the most Spotify Global Daily Streams of 2020 (7.74M)
“cardigan” #1 Apple Music Top 100: Global Songs chart
“cardigan” added to BBC Radio 1 A-List (UK)
“exile” feat. Bon Iver Triple J Radio airplay (Australia)
folklore debuted at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart claiming the highest Week 1 album consumption of 2020
folklore is Taylor Swift’s 6th #1 ARIA Album
folklore officially claims the biggest selling week 1 release in Ireland of 2020
Taylor Swift becomes the only female solo artist with the most Official Irish Albums Chart Number 1s this millennium
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  2. parkerxcore Aug 3, 2020
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    holy guacamole
     
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  3. scottlechowicz Aug 3, 2020
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    we've got chips
     
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  4. parkerxcore Aug 3, 2020
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    so come on take a dip
     
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  6. scottlechowicz Aug 3, 2020
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    cause my pool rips!
     
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  7. parkerxcore Aug 3, 2020
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    absolute banger
     
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  8. Jason Tate Aug 3, 2020
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    [​IMG]
     
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  9. scottlechowicz Aug 3, 2020
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    That list of milestones is staggering. Taylor is such a fucking force.
     
  10. Yellowcard2006 Aug 3, 2020
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    And with basically no lead up marketing...very impressive.
     
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  11. sowrongitsryan Aug 3, 2020
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    Sometimes I think a lot of the somewhat more established musicians might be better off doing this. You get judged so hard by that first single - like what if all of a musician’s diehard fans were the first to be the judge of new music before the critics? I think the outcome might be different for a decent amount of them
     
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  12. Brent Aug 3, 2020
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    Just non-stop listening to this since it was released (including right now). Just so damn good and happy and sad that we all have to wait God knows how long to hear these (and Lover tracks) live, in person.
     
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  13. IATAvalanche Aug 3, 2020
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    i honestly had no idea this was coming out.
     
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  15. ComedownMachine Aug 3, 2020
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    well yeah it was a surprise release
     
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  16. awakeohsleeper Aug 4, 2020
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    I do not exist.

    Reading through that huge list of achievements is breathtaking.
     
  17. AlwaysEvolving21 Aug 4, 2020
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    I have yet to listen to a Taylor Swift album in full.
     
  18. SuNDaYSTaR Aug 4, 2020
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    It was actually the first time I've listened to an album of hers, and I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised.

    It shows she's been listening to Phoebe Bridgers a lot, though.
     
  19. Jason Tate Aug 4, 2020
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    She's had songs and songwriting like this on albums for years.
     
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