Taylor Swift has done it again for the 2nd time this year as her new album 'evermore' lands at #1 on the United World Chart! Evermore' sold over 1 Million equivalent units globally in less than a week according to Republic Records. This includes sales in China where Taylor is the top-selling international Artist. 'evermore' is the most streamed and downloaded album of the past week in the US and UK, debuting at #1 on both the Billboard 200 in America and the Official UK Chart. In the US, the album landed atop the Billboard 200, her 8th No. 1 on the chart, after selling 329,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 17, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data which includes nearly 167,000 streaming units equaling 220.49 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs, along with 154,500 pure sales and just under 8.000 TEA units. Taylor extends her record as the Female Artist with the most #1 debuts on the Billboard 200! Taylor is now the 3rd Act in history to debut 8 consecutive studio albums at #1 in the US! Released by surprise on Dec. 11, its Taylor’s 2nd chart topper in 2020 after ‘folklore’. Swift is also the 1st woman, and 3rd overall act to score 2 x No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart in 2020 following Young boy never broke with ‘Top’ and ’38 baby’ and BTS with ‘Be’ and ‘Map of the Soul: 7’. With 329,000 equivalent units, ‘evermore’ scores the 5th Best Week in the US in 2020 after her own ‘folklore’ which opened with 846,000 on Aug. 8. She is the 1st Female Act to have 2 Albums on the Billboard 200 Top 3, simultaneously. Taylor is also the Female Act with the fastest time between two albums topping the Billboard 200! In the UK, Swift debuted with 'evermore' at #1 and is now the fastest female artist to accumulate six No. 1 albums on the Official UK chart, surpassing Madonna, and the first female artist to score six chart-toppers in the 21st-century! It's her 2nd No. 1 album in 2020 after 'folklore', establishing her as the first act to score multiple chart-topping albums in a calendar year, since David Bowie in 2016. 'evermore' also debuted at #1 on the Aria Album chart in Australia, giving Tay her 7th chart-topping album down under. Taylor achieved her second #1 album of the year just 19 weeks after 'folklore', setting the record for the shortest gap between two successive No. 1 albums. 'evermore' also topped the Album chart in New Zealand and debuted at #2 in Belgium (Flanders), #3 in Ireland where it is the most downloaded and streamed album of the week, #3 in the Netherlands & Sweden, #4 in Norway, #24 in Germany, #26 in Italy and #29 on the Japan Billboard Hot Albums chart! 'evermore' features guest appearances from American bands Bon Iver, Haim, and The National.
South Korean/Japanese girl group IZ.ONE lands at #2 on the United World Chart after selling 375,000 units of their brand new album 'One-Reeler, Act IV' which debuted atop the Gaon Album chart in Korea.
Kid Cudi debuts at #3 with his new album 'Man On The Moon III: The Chosen' and equivalent sales of 184,000, while 'Folklore' returns to No. 4 this week selling another 165,000 and over 4 million globally so far including China.
New entry at #5 for Japanese Artist Masaharu Fukuyama after selling 137,000 units of his brand new album 'Akira'! The Album debuted atop the Oricon Album Chart in Japan.
AC/DC's former #1 Album 'Power Up' lifts 8-6 after selling another 135.000 units and 870.000 so far, while Canadian Superstar Michael Bublé rebounds 9-7 with his chart topping 'Christmas' album, after selling another 1119,000 units and 13?575.000 so far. It's the best-selling holiday album of All Time!
Pop Kings BTS dip 7-8 this week with their latest album 'BE' which topped the United World Chart for 2 weeks! The album has sold another 90.000 sales and a total of 3.197.000 so far. BTS is #1 on the year end chart with 'Map Of The Soul: 7' which has sold 6.455.000 equivalent units so far!
Pop Smoke reenters the Top 10 at #9 with 'Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The moon' after selling another 82.000 units and 3.097.000 so far, while former chart topper, Ariana Grande, closes this week's Top 10 with her 6th studio album 'Positions' after selling another 80,000 equivalent units and 948.000 so far according to the United World Chart!
