Taylor Swift becomes first artist in US chart history to score a Number 1 debut on the singles and albums charts in the same week

Taylor Swift completes a run of first-week feats with her new album by setting a US chart first.
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Taylor Swift has become the first artist in US chart history to score a Number 1 debut on both the Billboard singles and albums charts this week.

Taylor's new album Folklore landed at the top of the Billboard 200 earlier this week, marking her seventh chart-topping album in America, while the record's trailer single Cardigan debuts at the summit of the Hot 100 today (August 4) - her sixth chart-topping song. 

The feat is the latest in a string of records for the collection, which was released on July 24, announced just 17 hours prior. 

MORE: How Taylor Swift's Folklore performed around the world

Taylor's label Republic Records reported that 1.3 million copies of Folklore were sold within one day of its release. The album also broke the first-day album streams record for a female artist, with 80.6 million global plays in 24 hours. 

All 16 of the album's songs enter this week's US singles chart chart, meaning Taylor now has the most Hot 100 hits among female artists, with 113. She overtakes Nicki Minaj's 110. 

In the UK, Folklore debuted at Number 1 with 37,000 chart sales. It's Taylor's fifth consecutive chart-topping album in the UK, making her only the fifth female artist to score five or more UK Number 1 albums - joining Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion. View the acts with the most chart-topping albums in the UK.

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Courtney Puzzo

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billboard hot 100 has only existed for 62 years prior it was records played by DJs and one played in jukeboxes the first hot 100 chart was published for the week ending August 4th 1958 and the #1 song was Ricky Nelson's poor little fool. congrats to Taylor for breaking that record and also for being the first artist to have 7 albums consecutively sell over 500,000 copies in their opening week when nobody had ever achieved that before the most over 500,000 in one week for a pop act prior was Nsync with 2 No Strings Attached selling 2.416 million its opening week in March 2000 and Celebrity in July 2001 selling 1.88 million its first week about 22% sales decrease where the pure sales totals for lover 867,000 and folklore 846,000 only decreased by around 10% album over album Lover sold 679,000 pure copies its first week last year and folklore did 615,000 pure copies last week and the totals with streaming were only 2.43% different

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Not my favourite artist but well done! Also well done for hardly effecting WHATS POPPIN, Roses & Blueberry Faygo in billboard! ;)