“Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” album by Taylor Swift has debuted at No. 1 with the biggest numbers of the year so far for any release, and it’s one of four albums she now has in the top 10 of the album chart.
Taylor Swift performs during the opener of her Eras tour in Glendale, Ariz., on March 17, 2023. Swift released"Speak Now ." Swift re-recorded her sophomore country album, “Speak Now,” and has 22 songs, including six that were written during the album’s original era, but not recorded until recently.
Swift also set a record for the female artist with the most No. 1 albums in history: She now has a dozen, moving ahead of Barbra Streisand, with whom she was formerly tied with 11 each.“Speak Now ” bowed on top of the Billboard 200 with 716,000 album-equivalent units. That number ensured that it wasn’t even a photo finish in this year’s opening-week derby, as the previous best figure was held by Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time,” which debuted in March with 501,000.
“Speak Now ” also set a mark for the biggest debut number of the three re-recordings Swift has released to date, in her campaign to remake all of the albums she originally recorded for her former label, Big Machine. “Red ” is now in second place, having come out of the gate with 605,000 in late 2021.
And in overall opening numbers, including streaming and sales, “Speak Now” is the biggest album since “Midnights,” which came out with 1.58 million first-week units.
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