Chris Willman Music WriterTaylor Swift’s “Folklore” may well go down in the lore of 2020 as the album with the biggest debut of the year.
Although there are still five months to go, “Folklore” scorched any competition that has appeared so far this year, with album units of 852,700 pushing it to No.
1 on the Rolling Stone album chart. That is easily the biggest number for any new release since Swift’s own “Lover,” which debuted with 991,800 album units 11 months ago.The breakdown in Swift’s numbers was 627,400 in full album sales, augmented by 86,600 individual track sales and 259.4 million song streams.The previous record holder for the top premiere of 2020 was Juice WRLD’s posthumous “Legends Never Die” release, which debuted with 517,800.
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