Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ is 2020’s first album to sell a million copies in US - The Daily Guardian

Correspondent — October 27, 2020, 5:43 am

Singer Taylor Swift has a reason to celebrate this year as her album, ‘Folklore’, has become the first million-selling album of 2020 in the US. The album, which had released on 24 July, returned to top spot on the Billboard 200 chart for an eighth non-consecutive week (on the chart dated October 31). It has also become the first album to sell a million copies in the US in 2020, reports billboard.com. With another 57,000 copies sold in the US in the tracking week ending 22 October (according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data), the total album sales of ‘Folklore’ jumped past one million (to 1.038 million), making it the first album to sell a million copies in 2020. ‘Folklore’ is Swift’s ninth album to sell at least one million copies in the US.