Lucky No.7: Taylor Swift nabs 7th No.1 album with ‘folklore’

NEW YORK (AP) — To no one’s surprise, Taylor Swift’s surprise album “folklore” is dominating the music charts. Swift’s eighth album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s 200 albums chart this week, marking the best first-week sales of the year and giving the pop star her seventh No. 1 title on the chart. According to Nielsen Music/MRC Data, the album sold 846,000 equivalent albums in the U.S. based on a combination of sales and streams. The last album to sell more units in a single week? Swift’s “Lover” album, released last August. The success makes Swift the first artist to have seven different albums sell at least 500,000 albums in a single week.