'Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard
Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard
5) as
Midnights arrives with the biggest week for any album in nearly seven years
The last
album to tally a larger week was the debut frame of Adele’s 25, when it
21 after
being announced two months earlier by Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards (Aug
No music
from the album was released until the set dropped on Oct
21, when
she also issued the music video for Midnights’ first single, “Anti-Hero
” Midnights is
Swift’s 10th full-length studio album and initially bowed as a 13-track standard release
Three hours
after Midnights’ arrival, Swift released a deluxe version of the album (its “3am Edition”) with
1 albums
on the Billboard 200 since the chart began regularly publishing on a weekly basis in 1956
1s), Jay-Z
(14), Drake, Bruce Springsteen and Streisand (each with 11)
Also in
the top 10 of the new Billboard 200: albums from Arctic Monkeys, YoungBoy Never Broke Again and
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