'Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Sprints to Lead on Midweek U.K.
Sprints to Lead on Midweek U.K.
The chart
race of the year is only halfway complete, though Taylor Swift’s Midnights is already
Swift’s tenth
studio album and Arctic Monkeys’ seventh studio set, The Car, are both blockbusters that
It’s a
heavyweight bout, with both sets notching well over 100,000 chart copies in just three days
At the
midweek point, Midnights has more than 140,000 chart units to secure the advantage
That sum
gives Midnights the best start for any album this year, bettering the 113,000 chart units accumulated
The Car
is some distance behind in second place on the Official Chart Update, with 105,000 chart units –
If Midnights
stays on target, it will hand Swift her ninth U
1 following
Red (2012), 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017), Lover (2019), Folklore (2020), Evermore (2020), Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (2021) and Red (Taylor’s Version) (2021)
artist could
swoop in for a chart double; she holds the top three spots on the singles
Meanwhile, Arctic
Monkeys enjoy a spotless streak of six consecutive career No
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