Taylor Swift's 'Folklore' Returns To The Top Of Billboard 200 Chart For 8th Week

Taylor Swift has a knack for creating records. After conquering the Billboard charts for weeks, “Folklore” claimed the top spot on Billboard 200 for an eighth non-consecutive week and also became the first album in 2020 to sell 1 million units in the U.S.

Swift’s newest album jumped from no. 10 to the top rank in the week ending Oct. 22, Billboard reported. According to the outlet, Nielsen Music/MRC Data revealed that 77,000 units of “Folklore” were sold in the U.S. in that period.

“Folklore” also recently achieved the monumental feat of selling 1 million copies, becoming the first million-seller of 2020. It is Swift's ninth album to sell at least 1 million copies in the U.S.

According to Billboard, the rise in sales occurred after the artist decided to sell autographed CDs of the set for $25 from her official web store.

The “Cardigan” hitmaker’s other albums to sell a million copies in the U.S. are “Taylor Swift” (2006, 5.75 million copies 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) and “Lover” (2019, 1.22 million).

Swift has already surpassed Whitney Houston’s longstanding record, among women, for the most cumulative weeks at no. 1 on the chart, across all of her chart-topping albums. Houston had a total of 46 weeks at the top of Billboard 200.

“Folklore” has a critic rating of 88 on Metacritic and a 9.2 user rating on the site.

Other artists in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart at the moment include Pop Smoke, Juice WRLD, Tom Petty, Machine Gun Kelly and South Korean girl group Blackpink.

Here’s the list of top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 chart:

1. “Folklore” – Taylor Swift
2. “Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon” – Pop Smoke
3. “Savage Mode II” – 21 Savage and Metro Boomin
4. “Legends Never Die” – Juice WRLD
5. “Wildflowers” – Tom Petty
6. “Resonance Part 1” – NCT
7. “My Turn” – Lil Baby
8. “Hamilton: An American Musical” – Various Artists
9. “Tickets to My Downfall” – Machine Gun Kelly
10. “The Album” - Blackpink