It s hard to imagine anyone bigger in music right now than Taylor Swift but there were a multitude of superstars who set massive sales records before she was even cutting her first album. Swift is well on her way to catch up to these megastars, however, especially with the release of her latest album,
Evermore, Swift s ninth studio album and a surprise for fans that dropped on Dec. 11, handily took the No. 1 spot on the all-genre
Billboard 200 chart, which is no surprise. It s her eighth chart-topping album, which keeps her in a race with other prominent women in music. She s almost tied with Madonna, who has nine No. 1 albums, though the current female record-holder is Barbra Streisand, who has 11. Swift still has a little way to go to reach the all-time record of the Beatles, who have 19.
Taylor Swift has claimed the Number 1 spot on the UK s Official Albums Chart with her ninth studio release Evermore, it was announced on Friday.
The singer, 31, became the first musician in four years to hold the spot with two different albums in one calendar year, as she also topped the charts with her album Folklore, which she released in July.
Taylor s eighth studio album spent three weeks at the top of the albums chart after it was released, and she surprised fans with the release of Evermore last week.
Winner! Taylor Swift s surprise album Evermore topped UK s Official Albums Chart on Friday, as she became the first musician to do so twice in one year since David Bowie
18 December 2020
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Taylor Swift’s surprise new album Evermore debuts at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart.
Swift claims a rarely seen feat of landing two chart-topping albums within a calendar year, following Folklore, which spent three weeks at the summit in August. Evermore was the most downloaded and streamed album of the week.
The singer-songwriter is the first artist in four years to hold the Number 1 spot with two different albums in a calendar year, since David Bowie scored two Number 1s across January - February 2016 with Blackstar and Best of Bowie following his death.
Released last Friday less than 24 hours after it was announced, Evermore earns Swift her sixth UK Number 1 album. Only three other female artists have six or more chart-topping albums in Official Chart history: Madonna (12), Kylie Minogue (8) and Barbra Streisand (6).
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Taylor Swift has denied that she s actually recorded a third surprise album in quarantine called Woodvale.
But as fans know, Taylor loves an Easter Egg - and some eagle-eyed Swifties discovered that the word Woodvale was hidden in some promotional material for Folklore, leading some to wonder whether Evermore was simply the second album in a trilogy.
Making a rare TV appearance on Jimmy Kimmel last night in the US, Taylor assured the chat show host that what fans are seeing is actually a mistake and not a precursor to a third LP. When I was making Folklore I was too afraid to even unveil to reveal the title of the album to even my closest team-mates and management, she said.