Taylor Swiftโs Red (Taylorโs Version) is doing some red-hot business in the charts. In its first five days of release, the album has already logged the second-largest week for any album in 2021 in the U.S., and the biggest sales week of the year for any album. She also broke the record for the largest sales week for a vinyl album in the modern era.
The album, which was released on Nov. 12, has earned over 500,000 equivalent album units in the U.S., of which 325,000 are in album sales. And, of that sales figure, 105,000 are in vinyl LP sales โ a new single-week record for a vinyl album since MRC Data began tracking sales in 1991.
Billboard is scheduled to announce the albumโs official final first-week numbers on Sunday, Nov. 21, after MRC Data has completed processing the weekโs data.
The debut ofย Drakeโsย Certified Lover Boyย is the largest week of 2021 by units, 613,000. And the previous largest sales week of the year was held by Swiftโs latest studio album of all-original material,ย Evermore, when itย sold 192,000 copiesย in the week ending June 3, following its release on vinyl LP.
Ifย Red (Taylorโs Version)ย debuts at No. 1 on the Nov. 27-datedย Billboard 200ย chart, Swiftโs tally of No. 1s will rise to 10, making her the second female artist with 10 leaders, followingย Barbra Streisand, with 11.ย The Beatles hold the record for the most No. 1 albums on the chart, with 19.
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