Taylor Swift Breaks Yet Another Record In The UK, After A Historical Week On Spotify
deadline.comTaylor Swift has broken yet another record with her latest album The Tortured Poets Department. Since the album was released a week ago, it has topped the UK’s music chart with the biggest first-week sales in seven years.
The BBC reports that the 31-track double album (including a second volume titled The Anthology, which Swift presented as a surprise to her fans) shifted 270,000 UK chart units in seven days, beating Swift’s previous best of 204,000 for her 2022 album Midnights.
Swift now matches Madonna as the female artist with the most ever UK number one albums. Both have 12 to their name, as does Bruce Springsteen.
Only The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Robbie Williams and Elvis Presley have more. Swift has broken other records with this album.
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