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Taylor Swift secures eighth Official Number 1 album with Red (Taylor’s Version)
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Red (Taylor’s Version) rules over the Official Albums Chart this week, securing Taylor Swift her eighth consecutive Number 1 album.
With 72,000 chart sales, Red (Taylor’s Version) finishes ahead of two massive recent chart-toppers, ABBA’s Voyage (2) and Ed Sheeran’s Equals (3), overtaking Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour to claim the biggest week for a female artist this year.
Taylor’s opening week figure surpasses the first week sales of the original Red album, which debuted at Number 1 in November 2012 with 62,000 sales.
View Taylor Swift's Official UK Chart history in full here.
Notching up almost 57,000 physical and digital sales, Red (Taylor’s Version) is also the fastest-selling (physical and downloads) female solo artist album of 2021 so far, overtaking Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over The Country Club.
Taylor’s latest chart-topper marks her fifth Number 1 album in less than three years, following Lover (August 2019), Folklore (August 2020), Evermore (December 2020) and Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (April 2021). Earlier this year, Taylor set a UK chart record when Fearless (Taylor’s Version) became her third chart-topping collection in less than 12 months.
Taylor Swift now matches Kylie Minogue for solo artists with eight Official UK Number 1 albums - the only female artist to have more is Madonna with 12. Taylor is also the first and only female artist to have eight UK Number 1 albums this century.
Meanwhile, Little Mix finish at Number 4 with their new greatest hits collection Between Us, becoming their seventh Top 5 album, and Rod Stewart’s The Tears Of Hercules lands at Number 5 to become Sir Rod’s 37th Top 10 in the UK.
Idles score their third Top 10 album with Crawler (6), this week’s best-seller on vinyl, followed closely by Damon Albarn’s The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (7) and The Wanted’s Most Wanted: The Greatest Hits (8).
Last month, we teamed up with The Wanted, to launch the first-ever limited-edition Fan Number 1 Awards from the Official Charts Company.
Fans of The Wanted can now own a special personalised piece of pop history - a limited edition replica Official Chart Number 1 Award for their chart-topping hits, including the one where it all started - All Time Low - and the biggest smash of their career Glad You Came.
Pick your favourite track, customise it with your name (or the name of the devoted Wanted fan in your life!) each award comes in a presentation box and carries a unique serial number with only 500 copies available of each. The perfect festive gift. Hurry while stocks last, pre-order now for Christmas delivery.
MORE: All the Number 1 albums
An Evening With by Silk Sonic – AKA Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak – is at Number 9, while Disco by Kylie Minogue returns to the chart at Number 10 thanks to a special Guest List edition of the album.
Outside the Top 10, South Yorkshire indie group The Reytons are at Number 11 with their debut album Kids Off The Estate.
ABBA’s record-breaking Gold: Greatest Hits album lands at Number 14 this week, as it reaches a landmark BRIT Certified 20x Platinum in the UK. With over six million chart sales to date, Gold has added to its accolades which include being the first album to reach over 1,000 weeks on the Official Albums Chart Top 100, and the second-best selling album of all time in the UK.
At Number 15, Ronan Keating earns his 11th solo Top 20 album with Songs From Home, while Nirvana’s classic Nevermind album rockets 70 places to Number 18 following a 30th anniversary reissue.
Further down, Australian singer Courtney Barnett’s third album Things Take Time, Take Time debuts at Number 31, and finally, How To Steal The World by Red Rum Club debuts at Number 34.
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Marko
Taylor Swift is so overrated.
She has a few good songs, that's it
Lawrence Colwell
Abba should have secured a,second week at the top, Red is an old record... Adele will knock miss swift of the top next, but Abba will hopefully hold steady at 2
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Nu No
They would be #01 but Taylor had 30.000 "limit edition" autograph CDs that have been pre-selling for weeks and were all counted this week. These CDs were 50% of her sales.
Abba still sold over 40.000 units this week (not sure the exact number yet).
Lawrence Colwell
Thats such a fix, autographed or not such a con..
Blank
If they had, they'd be the first group (not counting soundtracks) to have consecutive weeks at #1 since 2015 (when Years & Years did it with Communion). That's how rare it is these days. A few solo acts and collaborations have also been #1, but no groups.
Piran
I don’t know if I’m happier about this continuing Taylor’s consecutive run at #1 or the fact that ‘Red [Taylor’s Version]’ debuted with a higher opening figure than the original ‘Red’ album did!
Either way, massive congratulations to her this week! The album is really long, but it’s honestly worth it when the album is this good. :)
Now we wait for Adele to smash all kinds of records next week! 😂
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Nu No
Let's not forget the 30k autographed copies pre-sales during weeks that allowed this to be possible - without them she would not even be #01.
All 4 Taylor Swift latest #01 albums in UK would most probably not be #01 without the huge marketing budget and many marketing tricks that allowed those albums to be #01. This time was probably the biggest massive pre-sale autograph albums in history.
Piran
I don't see how the autographed copies argument is relevant!
At the end of the day, people still went out & bought Taylor's album (even if it was before release), so it would be unfair to exclude those sales from the chart.
Besides, nobody complained when ABBA debuted at #1 despite the fact that 111k out of their 204k combined sales (so more than half of 'Voyage's overall opening week figure) were pre-orders, so why should they do the same with Taylor? :P
Michael Seager
I'm no Swift fan, but marketing is part of the game. Every new album has its own marketing budget. It has to these days to get as high a first week sale as it can. Most new albums these days are looking at the first week for its highest chart position, simply because streams have been allowed to dominate the albums chart just like the singles chart.