Taylor Swift Extends Story Atop Artist 100 as ‘Evermore’ Breaks Vinyl Sales Story
“Evermore” returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and offered a weekly most attention-grabbing 102,000 on vinyl.
Taylor Swift logs her 48th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated June 12), extending her file for the most time spent as the high musical act in the U.S., because of unprecedented sales for the newly released vinyl version of her December 2020 album Evermore.
Evermore rebounds from No. 74 to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 202,000 an analogous album items, basically based on MRC Files. Of that sum, 192,000 had been in album sales, marking the supreme sales week of 2021 for an album, surpassing the outlet frame of Swift’s non-public Heroic (Taylor’s Model), which started with 179,000 in April.
Within the meantime, Evermore offered 102,000 on vinyl in the week ending June 3, following its Could honest 28 vinyl launch, shattering the associated price for the supreme vinyl sales week for an album in the U.S. since MRC Files started tracking sales in 1991. It bigger than doubles the prior file-holder, Jack White’s Lazaretto, which opened with 40,000 in vinyl sales in June 2014.