Taylor Swift's new self-written 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)' her third re-recorded album, has landed at #1 on the United World Album Chart with massive equivalent sales of 893,000 Excl. China as per UWC, after landing at #1 in Australia, Belgium (Flanders), Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, the UK & US and breaking the Global Spotify record for the most single-day streams for an album in 2023! It marked Swift's 12th album to top the Billboard 200 chart, breaking Barbra Streisand's all-time record for the most #1 albums by a female artist in history! All 22 of its tracks debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, including "I Can See You" at #5! Upon its release, 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)' received 126.3M streams on its opening day on Spotify, breaking the records for the most single-day streams for any album in 2023 and for a country album ever. It also became the 2nd most-streamed album by a female artist in a single day, behind Swift's own 'Midnights' (2022)! Swift became the 1st woman to chart four albums in the Billboard 200 Top 10 simultaneously, the 1st woman and living soloist to chart 11 albums simultaneously (after the Beatles and Prince), and the 1st act to have 9 albums sell at least 500,000 copies in one week! All 22 tracks from 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)' debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, bringing Swift's total career entries to 212 songs, surpassing the cast of Glee for 2nd-most of all time! 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)' debuted at #1 on the Official UK Albums Chart with 67,000 units, surpassing the 2010 album's peak (#6) and doubling its 1st-week sales. Swift became the fastest female artist to hit 10 #1 albums in the UK, surpassing Madonna! In Australia, 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)' debuted atop the ARIA Albums Chart, replacing 'Midnights' at #1, becoming Swift's 11th chart topper. Swift became the first act to replace herself on the top spot. 15 tracks from the album entered the ARIA Singles Chart simultaneously, with 3 in the top 10!
Taylor Swift's 'Midnights' holds at no. 5, scoring another 88,000 sales and 9.3 Million so far! Taylor is charting a total of 5 albums in the Top 20 including 'Midnights' and 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)' with 'Lover' at no. 11 with 66,000 sales, 'Folklore' at no. 18 (49,000 sales), and '1989' at no. 19 (48,000 sales)!
The 2nd highest debut of the week comes from Japanese girl group SKE48. Their new smash 'Suki Ni Nacchatta' lands at no.2 with 314,000 equivalent sales after landing at #1 on the Oricon Singles chart! In Japan the effort is listed on the Single-Chart, but according to WUC rules, it's only available for the album chart, because the standard version of the release contains 3 different songs in 10 different versions!
TXT (TOMORROW X TOGETHER)'s 2nd Japanese album 'Sweet' lands at #3 on the United world chart with 307,000 equivalent units, after debuting at #1 on the Oricon chart in Japan!
Morgan Wallen Country Superstar Morgan Wallen dips 3-4 on the United World Chart with his chart-topping album 'One Thing At A Time', selling another 115,000 equivalent album units and a total of 3.473.000 so far!
Japanese Rock Trio, Mrs. GREEN APPLE, lands at #6 with 'Antenna' scoring the 4th Top entry of the week and 77.000 equivalent album units after debuting at #2 on the Oricon Albums chart in Japan!
Lil Uzi Vert's 3rd studio album 'Pink Tape' drops 2-7 in its 2nd week on the United World chart, scoring another 76,000 equivalent album units and 273,000 so far. The album features guest appearances from Don Toliver, Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott and more! 'Pink Tape' debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart with 167,000 album-equivalent units consisting of 11,000 album sales and 154,000 streaming units scoring the third-largest opening week of 2023 at the time. It's the first hip hop album of 2023 to top the Billboard 200! 18 of the album's 26 tracks debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously, with Uzi becoming the 14th artist in the chart's history to score 100 chart entries throughout their career! The album also landed at #1 in new Zealand, #2 in Canada and the Czech Republic, #3 in the Netherlands, Norway & Switzerland, #4 in Austria, #5 in Lithuania, #6 in Ireland & Poland, #7 in the UK, #8 in Hungary, #9 in Denmark, #13 in Germany, #14 in Finland, #15 in Belgium and #19 in Italy!
Peso Pluma's new amazing album 'Genesis' dips 6-8 in its 3rdd week on the United World Chart scoring another and 68,000 units and 239.000 so far! The album has reached #1 on the Billboard US Top Laton Albums chart, #1 on the Billboard US Regional Mexican Ambums chart, #3 on the Billboard 200 and #31 in Spain!
Enhypen's 4th EP 'Dark Blood' re-enters the United World Chart at #9 after landing at #1, scoring another 68,000 units and 1.198,000 in total according to UWC! The Album debuted at #1 on the Oricon chart in Japan and #1 on the Circle chart in South Korea. On the Hanteo Chart, Dark Blood sold more than 1.1 million copies on its first day alone, surpassing the sales of their previous EP. It's the group's 5th Top 10 entry on the Billboard Top Album Sales and their first ever Top 5 entry on Billboard 200! The Album reached #2 in France, Greece & Hungary, #3 in Portugal, #4 in Belgium (Wallonia), #5 in Sweden & Switzerland, #7 in Flanders, #8 in Austria & Poland and #9 in Germany!
Stray Kids 3rd Korean top-selling studio album '5-Star' slips 8-10 on its 6th week on the chart with 67,000 equivalent album units. The album peaked at #1 in Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, South Korea and the United States, and reached the top 10 in Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and Switzerland, selling over 5 million copies so far!
