Taylor Swift beats The Beatles’ UK chart record as Fearless (Taylor's Version) becomes her third Number 1 album in under a year

Yes, I checked it those three albums are listed. Wonder why that is not the record.

I've checked it too. Looks like the record to me.

21,000 sales, so poor, new record for sales, The Beatles sold a million to get to Number 1...really meaning less now.

That's completely irrelevant!

Regardless of how many sales 'Fearless [Taylor's Version]' got, it shifted more units than any other album this week, hence why it's #1. :)

Also, I don't really see how you can compare Taylor Swift to The Beatles, because they're from completely different eras & they make completely different styles of music!

It does seem you can get to number one with low sales these days. That’s probably why there is a new number one most weeks.

But.. this article made the comparison not them

Hi David, no artist has ever sold a million albums in a week in the UK, not even The Beatles would you believe!

Adele is the record holder for fastest-seller of all time, managing an incredible 800k back in 2015 for the opening week of '25', and what a week that was! She broke another record just three days later, when it became the fastest million seller of all time too. https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/adele-sets-new-official-chart-record-as-25-becomes-the-uk-s-fastest-million-selling-album-of-all-time__12626/

Charts are different now Sales are bad with only the old albums maybe selling one copy How many has greatest hits of Queen and its #9 Crazy

Boring charts now Music is Gone

I am surprised Official Charts failed to also mention Taylor has also equalled The Beatles run of 7 consecutive # 1 Albums. Should her next album go to #1 she will then join Abba and Led Zeppelin, as they each have 8. If she can do one better she will have set a new record.

All the records in the singles or albums charts has lost their meaning. Sales are so low and the streaming base points is so strange and not logical...that all the records since 2017/2018 can not be compared to previous records.

I know what you mean.For decades I have been reading Beatles record got broken. It makes you wonder how many did they set. Probably the same with Elvis. I remember hearing Justin Beiber broke one of elvis's records, in the US. But this history, is small fries, and I don't class it, in the Actual History League, if you know what I mean. I am also sure The Beatles have many history in other charts, around the world.They sure do, in my country. They have lost many records, or have been equalled and it has always been by different artists, never a continued pattern, that's shows how great they were, still are. Noone though,will have the impact that they had, especially in such very little space of time together. If anyone ever thinks it was easy what they achieved, then I say, go for it, lets see you match it.

I don't think OCC intended to do that! They're just saying that, according to their archives, Taylor has accumulated three consecutive #1 albums faster than anyone else & The Beatles previously held that record. It's a statistic, not a comparison!

Obviously, The Beatles got their #1 albums with much higher sales figures, but nowhere near the one million per week total that David was saying about above (as the moderator said in any other comment, not even the biggest opening week ever shifted that total).

It's kind of inevitable that sales figures now are only going to be a tiny fraction than they were 50 years ago! In the 1960's, going out to a record store & buying the CDs themselves way essentially the only possible way that you could listen to albums. That being said, we're now in 2021, where streaming has helped people saved time & money to access the music & given the recent lockdowns, it's probably being encouraged more now that it would be ever before!

Either way, for their respective generations, The Beatles & Taylor Swift have made some incredible chart achievements & we should just be happy for both acts. :)

Again, very different circumstances! If streaming didn't exist & you could only buy albums in 2021, Taylor's sales for this week wouldn't be around 21,000, they'd be in the hundreds of thousands. :)

Exaggerated a bit. Hundreds of thousands in one week, I don't think so.

Exactly, great point. The music landscape is much more fragmented today than it was in the '60s, which is no bad thing necessarily, it means there's more ways than ever before to access your favourite music. Both artists have had incredible success in their own right in their respective eras.

Not exaggerated at all! If you had no way to stream music for free wherever you are, e.g. in the 1960's, then Taylor's album sales for last week would have at least another 0 on the end of them. :)

Should be no.1 again this week then.

No, I never said it would be #1 for a second week!

Again, it's not about chart position for her anymore! It's about getting back full ownership of her older albums, which she did. :)

Zero promotion? She was literally everywhere. Everdyday an article about her and this album in every music magazine eand website. It was overmarketing at a certain point. Her fanbase is very loyal and strong. The album is too long and is as boring as the original. It is good she evolved in 15 years far from this kind of lazy songs.

The downvotes were probably from Scooter Braun fan accounts! :P

Is there any more of the catalogue to come?

She's apparently re-releasing every studio album from her self-titled debut all the way up to 'Reputation', since she cut ties with Scooter Braun after that album, so I think she's re-recording six albums in total! :O