Taylor Swift’s Midnights had the best gross sales week for an album in nearly 7 years, touchdown within the high spot of the Billboard 200 chart with 1.578 million equal album models. As Billboard notes, it’s the biggest week for an album since 2015, when Adele beat the one-week US album gross sales report in 2015 by transferring 3.482 million models. It’s additionally the most important gross sales week for an album since Swift’s Reputation, which had 1.216 million models in 2017.
Midnights is Swift’s eleventh #1 album general, and she or he now ties Barbra Streisand for the report of most #1 albums made by girls. She’s the sixth act with greater than 10 #1 albums on the chart, crushed out by the Beatles (19), Jay-Z (14), and Drake, Bruce Springsteen, and Streisand (all with 11). Swift now has 5 completely different albums which have reached the million-plus mark since Billboard began monitoring music gross sales in 1991, extending her lead over Backstreet Boys, Eminem, and *NSYNC, who all have two.
Swift has additionally set a brand new modern-era vinyl gross sales report, transferring 575,000 copies this week. It’s the biggest week for an album on vinyl since monitoring started once more in 1991. The earlier record-holder was Harry Styles’ Harry’s House, which got here out earlier this yr and bought 182,000 copies. She additionally bought 395,000 CDs, and had the third-biggest streaming week ever behind Drake’s Scorpion and Certified Lover Boy. Midnights earned 1.140 million album gross sales, 419,000 streaming equal album models, and 19,000 observe equal album models.
It’s anticipated that Swift may set some data over on the Hot 100, as nicely. Stay tuned for that when that chart is launched tomorrow…