Taylor Swift album Folklore becomes first million-selling album of 2020 in US
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's Folklore album returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for an eighth non-consecutive week (on the chart dated October 31), it also becomes the first album to sell a million copies in the US in 2020.
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift`s `Folklore` album returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for an eighth non-consecutive week (on the chart dated October 31), it also becomes the first album to sell a million copies in the US in 2020.
According to Billboard, with another 57,000 copies sold in the US in the tracking week ending October 22 (according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data), `Folklore`s` total album sales jump past 1 million (to 1.038 million), making it the first album to sell a million copies in 2020. It`s also the first album released in 2020 to sell a million. Released on July 24, `Folklore` debuted atop the August 8-dated Billboard 200. Swift`s last album, `Lover`, released on August 23, 2019, was the only album to sell a million in the US in 2019. It sold 1.09 million that year, of its now-total 1.22 million.
`Folklore` and `Lover` are the only albums released in 2019 and 2020 to sell a million copies in the U.S.As per Billboard, `Folklore` is the 30-year-old singer`s ninth album to sell at least 1 million copies in the US Those nine albums include all eight of her studio efforts, along with her Christmas release `The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection.` (ANI)
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