Singer Taylor Swift’s Folklore Becomes First Album to Sell 1 Million Album in 2020
Taylor Swift Returns to No. 1 as ‘Folklore’ Sales Pass 1 Million
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ album returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for an eighth non-consecutive week (on the chart dated October 31), it also becomes the first album to sell a million copies in the US in 2020.
According to Billboard, with another 57,000 copies sold in the US in the tracking week ending October 22 (according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data), ‘Folklore’s’ total album sales jump past 1 million (to 1.038 million), making it the first album to sell a million copies in 2020. It’s also the first album released in 2020 to sell a million.
Swift’s previous album, “Lover”, released on August 23, 2019, was the only album to sell a million in the US in 2019. It sold 1.09 million in that year.
