Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ becomes first million-selling album of 2020 in US

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Washington: American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ album returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for an eighth non-consecutive week (on the chart dated October 31), it also becomes the first album to sell a million copies in the US in 2020.

In isolation my imagination has run wild and this album is the result. I’ve told these stories to the best of my ability with all the love, wonder, and whimsy they deserve. Now it’s up to you to pass them down. folklore is out now: https://t.co/xdcEDfithq

📷: Beth Garrabrant pic.twitter.com/vSDo9Se0fp

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) July 24, 2020

According to Billboard, with another 57,000 copies sold in the US in the tracking week ending October 22 (according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data), ‘Folklore’s’ total album sales jump past 1 million (to 1.038 million), making it the first album to sell a million copies in 2020. It’s also the first album released in 2020 to sell a million. Released on July 24, ‘Folklore’ debuted atop the August 8-dated Billboard 200. Swift’s last album, ‘Lover’, released on August 23, 2019, was the only album to sell a million in the US in 2019. It sold 1.09 million that year, of its now-total 1.22 million.

‘Folklore’ and ‘Lover’ are the only albums released in 2019 and 2020 to sell a million copies in the U.S.

As per Billboard, ‘Folklore’ is the 30-year-old singer’s ninth album to sell at least 1 million copies in the US Those nine albums include all eight of her studio efforts, along with her Christmas release ‘The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection.’ (ANI)