Taylor Swift has broken another record, now holding the title for most cumulative weeks spent at Number One for a female artist on the Billboard 200.Her recent album ‘folklore’ returned to Billboard’s top spot this week after turning over another 87,000 units, nine weeks after release.
With this, Swift has now totalled 47 weeks at Number One.Whitney Houston previously held the record, raising the bar back in 1987 with her second studio album, ‘Whitney’.Swift is preceded by The Beatles (132 weeks), Elvis Presley (67), Garth Brooks (52) and Michael Jackson (51), as male artists hold the highest number of non-consecutive weeks atop the charts.‘folklore’ was released back in July to critical acclaim.
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