Taylor Swift's 'Folklore' becomes First Album to Sell 1 Million Copies in 2020
by Rachel Yang
October 26, 2020


Taylor Swift has just notched a few more major milestones with 'Folklore'.

The pop star's album returned to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for an eighth non-consecutive week (on the chart dated Oct. 31), and it became the first album to sell a million copies in the U.S. in 2020. 'Folklore' has also now achieved gold and platinum status.

With another 57,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the tracking week ending Oct. 22, 'Folklore’s' total album sales exceed 1 million (to 1.038 million), making it the first album to sell a million copies this year. It’s also the first album released in 2020 to sell a million.

https://ew.com/music/taylor-swift-folklore-first-album-sell-1-million-copies-2020/

Taylor Swift Breaks Another Record, has the Year's Best-Selling Album for Fifth Time
by Tyler Aquilina
January 9, 2021


Taylor Swift's first surprise album of the year, 'Folklore', finished 2020 as the year's best-selling album in the U.S., according to MRC Data (the source of music sales info for the Billboard charts).

Swift has now had the top-selling album of the year five times, the first artist to do so since MRC's first full year of tracking in 1992. She previously topped the year-end list with 'Fearless' in 2009, '1989' in 2014, 'Reputation' in 2017, and 'Lover' in 2019.




'Folklore' has broken a litany of records since its release in July.

It became 2020's best-selling album in September after spending six consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart, and remains the only album of the year to sell more than 1 million copies. (Swift also achieved that milestone in 2019, with 'Lover'.)

In September, Swift also surpassed Whitney Houston for most cumulative weeks at No. 1 by a woman in the Billboard 200 chart, breaking a 33-year-old record.




Swift's second surprise album of 2020, 'Evermore', arrived in December and quickly topped the Billboard 200.

Despite dropping in the final weeks of the year, 'Evermore' also landed among the top 10 best-selling albums of 2020. The deluxe edition of the album dropped on streaming this week, with two bonus songs, "It's Time to Go" and "Right Where You Left Me."

https://ew.com/music/taylor-swift-best-selling-album-year-fifth-time-folklore/