Taylor Swift is back on top of the charts…
Taylor Swift’s Evermore debuted at number-one on the Billboard 200 album chart, and helped her set a bunch of new chart marks.
It earned her enough in sales to have the fifth-largest week of the year for any album. (Folklore had the biggest week in 2020.) Evermore also had the biggest week for an album that was available only for streaming and downloading in over two years — since Drake’s Scorpion back in July 2018.
Evermore is Taylor’s eighth number-one album. The only women with more chart-toppers are Barbra Streisand with 11 and Madonna with nine. And Evermore tops the chart just four months and 18 days after Folklore, which is the shortest gap between new number-one albums by a woman since Olivia Newton-John went five months between chart-toppers in 1974 and 1975.
Folklore moved up to number-three on the chart, which makes Swift the first woman to have two albums concurrently in the Top 3.
