By now, you probably know that
Taylor Swift
‘s
folklore
was the top-selling album of 2020. But what you probably don’t know is that Taylor’s had the top-selling album of the year five times — more than any other artist since tracking began numbers in 1992.
As
Billboard
reports
,
folklore
sold 1.276 million copies through December 21, according to MRC Data, which provides
Billboard
with its sales numbers. It’s the only album released in 2020 to sell at least a million copies.
In 2019, only one album sold at least a million copies in the U.S., and it was also by Taylor:
Lover
, which sold 1.09 million. Taylor also had the best selling album of 2017 with
Reputation,
2014 with
1989
and 2009 with
Fearless
, for a total of five in all.
Adele
had the top-selling album in four different years: 2016 and 2015 with
25
and 2012 and 2011 with
21.
What’s even more impressive is that Taylor had
two
of the top 10 best-selling albums of 2020. In addition to
folklore
at number one, her album
evermore
was the number-10 top-seller of the year.
By Andrea Dresdale
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