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Taylor Swift’s Folklore becomes first album to hit over a million sale in 2020

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October 26, 2020

Taylor Swift’s latest album Folklore has broken the record of the first album to sell more than a million copies in 2020.

Swift took her fans by surprise when she launched her eighth album, which was recorded during the lockdown, in August.

Folklore album returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for an eighth non-consecutive week (on the chart dated Oct. 31).

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According to Billboard, Folklore sold 57,000 copies in the US last week, bringing its total to 1.038 million.

Folklore was released on July 24 and debuted atop the Aug. 8-dated Billboard 200. Swift’s last album, Lover, released on Aug. 23, 2019, was the only album to sell a million in the U.S. in 2019. It sold 1.09 million that year, of its now-total 1.22 million.

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

Folklore is the star’s ninth album to reach that milestone – with all eight of her studio albums, along with her Christmas release The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, each selling more than a million.

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Here’s a look at all of Swift’s million-selling albums, in order of release: Taylor Swift (2006, 5.75 million sold to date), The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection (2007, 1.08 million), Fearless (2008; 7.21 million), Speak Now (2010, 4.71 million), Red (2012, 4.49 million), 1989 (2014, 6.25 million), Reputation (2017, 2.28 million), Lover (2019, 1.22 million) and Folklore (2020, 1.04 million). [Billboard]