Taylor Swift has set one other file along with her tenth studio album, ‘Midnights‘, becoming the latest artist to achieve an Official Chart Double, as both her album and single ‘Anti-Hero’ declare Number One on the Official Albums and Singles Chart on the similar time.
According to new Official Charts Company knowledge launched at the moment, Swift moved 204,000 UK chart gross sales in simply seven days, greater than double her earlier file of 90,300, which she managed when her album 1989′ again in 2014.
Released final Friday (October 21), the singer-songwriter’s tenth studio effort additionally smashed Spotify’s file for the most-streamed album in a single day – a feat Swift mentioned was “mind-blowing”.
The Official Chart Company additionally reported that Arctic Monkeys’ streak of six UK Number One albums has been damaged. Their launch ‘The Car’ debuted at Number Two with over 100,000 chart gross sales in its opening week.
“Many congratulations to Taylor Swift on her fantastic achievement in topping 200,000 sales this week”, Martin Talbot, Chief Executive, Official Charts Company mentioned in an announcement. “We always knew this would be a huge week for fans of Taylor and Arctic Monkeys, following the release of their brand new albums – and their combined first week total of more the 320,000 chart sales indicates that their pre-release excitement was well placed.”
‘Midnights’ marks Swift’s ninth consecutive Number One album, with the singer-songwriter setting a brand new all-time Official Chart file by producing the quickest succession of 9 UK Number One albums of any feminine artist, a title that used to belong to Madonna.
In a four-star evaluate of ‘Midnights’, NME’s Hannah Mylrea wrote: “The country roots she revisited on her re-recorded albums is nowhere to be found, and folk influences of her lockdown projects are largely absent. Instead she spins these new stories through sleek synth-pop, in common with ‘1989’ or ‘Lover’, but the razor-sharp production of these albums is more subtle this time around.”