Taylor Swift has made historical past as soon as once more this week. The vinyl launch of folklore: the lengthy pond studio classes debuts at No.3 on the Billboard 200, logging the “The highest chart debut for a Record Store Day Vinyl ever.” Right now, Swift occupies three spots within the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 (No.3 folklore: the lengthy pond studio classes, No.4 Midnights, No.10 Lover), becoming a member of Whitney Houston as the one feminine soloist to realize this milestone.
Moreover, folklore: the lengthy pond studio classes has emerged as “the first vinyl-only release to land in the Top 10” within the trendy period. At the identical time, it has earned her the title for “Most #1 Albums” on the Billboard Vinyl Albums Chart. The album additionally greater than doubled the earlier highest promoting report retailer day gross sales report. The earlier report for Record Store Day vinyl gross sales was 35k items and folklore: the lengthy pond studio classes bought 75k.
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The album chronicles the primary time Swift’s folklore album was carried out stay throughout September 2020. Taylor, Aaron Dessner [The National], Jack Antonoff [Bleachers], and Justin Vernon [Bon Iver] performed by the album in its entirety in the course of the Long Pond Studio Sessions, and this vinyl presents and preserves this second eternally. folkore notably stands out as Swift’s third LP to win “Album of the Year” on the Grammy Awards.
Last yr, Swift was introduced because the first-ever world ambassador of Record Store Day. She stated: “Record stores are so important because they help to perpetuate and foster music-loving as a passion. They create settings for live events. They employ people who adore music thoroughly and purely.”
Carrie Colliton, co-founder of RSD, stated: “The position of RSD Ambassador is, after all, one thing we take severely within the sense that it helps us do our job of shining a light-weight on these particular locations.
“We’re pretty picky about the people we invite to ‘wear the sash’, and we always want to make sure those Ambassadors genuinely love record stores and are creative about ways to celebrate them. But mostly it’s a title we want people to have fun with, and we know that Taylor loves having fun, loves music, and loves record stores.”
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