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9 november 2021

Taylor Swift's Midnights breekt 73 records in eerste week

To no one's surprise, Taylor Swift's new album

Midnight

is a certified smash.En route to debut at No. 1 in 14 countries - including the US, UK, Australia and Canada - Swift's 10th LP also broke a slew of records worldwide.

Among her many achievements, Swift became the only artist to debut five albums with over 1 million copies sold in their first week in American Nielsen history.

Midnight

moved 1,578 million units, behind only Adele's

25

for the biggest debut by a female artist in Billboard history.

Of the 1,578 million copies sold, one million of that total was pure album sales - the first album to achieve this since Swift's own album

reputation

in 2017. What's more,

Midnight

sold 575,000 copies on vinyl - the biggest week for an album on vinyl since the release. start of tracking in 1991.

Swift's

midnight

also broke Spotify's records for most global streams in a five-day period and most streams in one day.And her song "Anti-Hero" now holds the record for the most song streams on the worldwide Spotify chart with 17.39 million.

Further cementing her place in history,

Midnight

is Swift's 11th No. 1 album overall, linking Barbra Streisand to most No. 1 albums made by women.She is also the sixth act to have earned more than 10 No. 1 albums over the course of their career, along with The Beatles (19), Jay-Z (14), Drake (11), Bruce Springsteen (11), and Streisand .

That's just the surface of the many records Swift has set by

midnight

;you can find them all below.

Read our

midnight

review , and see the many Easter eggs hidden in her video for "Anti-Hero."Also check out our updated list of Swift's albums, ranked from worst to best.

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