(Los Angeles) Taylor Swift has officially scored more “number one” albums on the US charts than any female artist so far – ahead of Barbra Streisand.
his album Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)released earlier this month, is the third in his extensive re-recording operation of his first six albums, following music director Scooter Braun’s sale of his debut catalog.
The new opus has officially debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 – its 12e to reach number one. Barbra Streisand had had 11.
Taylor Swift otherwise equals Drake’s mark, but is just behind Jay-Z, who has scored 14 albums at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The Beatles have placed 19.
Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is the best-selling album in a week this year, with 716,000 “equivalent album units”, according to Luminate.
Swift thus dethroned country singer Morgan Wallen, whose album One Thing at a Time had sold 501,000 units in the first week, last March.