Taylor Swift`s ‘Folklore` soars to No. 1 with biggest sales week of 2020
(WorldNews Music)

“Folklore” is a storybook smash. Taylor Swift`s fantasy-streaked eighth studio album — recorded in secrecy in quarantine and released on July 24 with only a few hours` notice — moved the sales-and-streams equivalent of 846,000 copies in the United States in its first week of availability, according to Nielsen Music. That`s the biggest opening for any record so far this year — and the biggest sales week for any album since Swift`s 2019 LP, “Lover,” which notched 867,000 copies in September. “Folklore`s” strong commercial showing was more than enough to secure a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200, 30-year-old...