Taylor Swift heading for seventh UK Number 1 album with Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
The first of Taylor Swift’s rerecorded studio albums Fearless (Taylor’s Version) is on course for Number 1 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart.
Fearless (Taylor’s Version) has a lead of 11,000 chart sales on today’s Official Chart Update (April 12), with the most paid-for sales and album streams so far this week.
The original 2008 version of Fearless was Taylor’s breakthrough release in the UK, peaking at Number 5, as well as Number 1 on the Official Country Albums Chart.
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Should Taylor continue her momentum, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) will become her third UK Number 1 album in the space of just over eight months following her two surprise-released lockdown albums in 2020 Folklore and Evermore. Her previous four Number 1 albums were Red (2012), 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017), and Lover (2019).
A seventh Number 1 album would see Taylor vault into third place among female artists with the most UK chart-topping albums behind Madonna (12) and Kylie Minogue (8).
Following its vinyl release, Ariana Grande’s fourth Number 1 album Positions is on track to return to the Top 40 at 2, while French composer and producer Jean-Michel Jarre is heading for his highest-charting album since 1988 with Amazonia at 4.
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Following his death aged 50 last Friday after suffering a heart attack, two greatest hits collections from US rapper DMX could enter the Top 10 for the first time; The Best Of is at at Number 6, while The Definition of X: The Pick of the Litter is at Number 10.
American hip hop collective Brockhampton are in pursuit of a third Top 20 placement with their sixth album Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine (20), while London indie rock band Flyte are flying towards their first Top 40 album with their second record This Is Really Going To Hurt (25).
Also on the cusp of entering this week’s Top 40 are American rock band Cheap Trick with In Another World at 34, and Bournemouth prog group Big Big Train, with a reissue of their 2009 album The Underfall Yard at 37.
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🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
that’s awesome for taylor! i also love the tribute to dmx. :)
brockhampton really deserves better than only number 20 though....
thierry henon
Great news for TAYLOR but hope she will rerecord her self-titled debut as well: love that country album!!
DS
Dave S
Think that would be towards the end tbh. She'll do the heavy hitters first suggestions being 1989 next followed by Red, then the others. The Vault material is what is going to make the albums REALLY attractive though. If she's got other songs of the quality of Mr Perfectly Fine squirreled away then we're in for a treat.
Piran
It'd be interesting to know any other acts who have managed three consecutive UK #1 albums in less than nine months! Hopefully OCC can cover that on Friday. :)
Blank
Following on from the discussions when she had 2 in a year, I don't think it's ever been done before. Certainly hasn't been done with new releases. (ie. if it has been done before, it involves reissues and/or greatest hits) - or old albums sticking around to make the stats count (e.g. Tubular Bells and Hergest Ridge)
Piran
I love how this new version of 'Fearless' feels so fresh yet so nostalgic at the same time. :)
Piran
SEVEN UK NUMBER ONE ALBUMS?! I'M SO HAPPY!!!!!! 🥳
Rob Parkinson
Hey Piran! Looks a dead cert and won't be long before Taylor overtakes Kylie at this rate especially if all the Taylor's versions send the rerecordings to the top spot! I wonder how long it will be before the release of the next one?
The only disappointment being the tracks from Evermore are most likely not going to get released such a shame as I'm still loving 'no body no crime' with Haim.
Piran
Yeah, the album rollout seems to be so quick, that it means none of the singles get any real promotion!
I think 'No Body, No Crime' was released as an official single, but it just never got anywhere sadly. :/
Rob Parkinson
Yes it has happened so quick but if you have a lot of albums to re-release and need to get them out quickly as you're not getting the rights from the originals then I guess this is the only way to do it but great that 2 new albums got thrown out there in quick succession first.
Piran
Yeah, you can tell that she recorded so many songs during lockdown that releasing them all on multiple albums was the only option for Taylor! :P