Taylor Swift has a fifth consecutive U.K. chart-leader as Folklore (EMI) blasts to No. 1.Swift’s eighth album leads the Official U.K.
Albums Chart on debut, notching up 37,000 chart sales, with two-thirds of those from streams and the remainder from downloads, the OCC reports.With that fast start, Folklore is 2020’s most-downloaded album in its first week, eclipsing the opening tally of Eminem’s Music to be Murdered By.The full rollout of Folklore on CD and vinyl is yet to come.According to the OCC, Swift becomes just the fifth female artist to bag five or more U.K.
No. 1 albums, joining Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion.Coming in at No. 2 this week is Ronan Keating new compilation Twenty Twenty (Decca).
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