Taylor Swifts re-recording of 1989 dominates UK music charts

Taylor Swifts re-recording of 1989 dominates UK music charts

Published November 03,2023


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U.S. music star Taylor Swift topped the UK singles and albums charts on Friday together with her re-recording of her award-winning hit album “1989”.

The 21-track “1989” (Taylor’s Version), launched final Friday 9 years to the day the unique album got here out in 2014, debuted at No. 1 on the Official Albums Chart with “184,000 chart units, more than double that of the original 1989’s opening-week sales of 90,000,” the Official Charts Company mentioned in an announcement.

“But that’s just the start. Taylor also claims the biggest opening week for any album this year.”

The feat means the brand new launch, which outperformed the remainder of the Top 10 mixed this week, is Swift’s eleventh UK No.1 album. She is the girl with probably the most UK No.1 albums this century, the Official Charts Company mentioned, including “1989” (Taylor’s Version) additionally topped vinyl charts.

The new album options 5 beforehand unreleased “From the Vault” tracks, together with “Is It Over Now?”, which topped the Official Singles Chart with 4.9 million streams. Two others, “Now That We Don’t Talk” and “Slut!”, got here in at No. 2 and 5 respectively.

“1989”, Swift’s fifth album which span hits like “Shake It Off” and “Blank Space”, topped charts all over the world and received her album of the 12 months, greatest pop vocal album and greatest music video for “Bad Blood” on the 2016 Grammy Awards.

The singer-songwriter has been launching re-releases of her earlier work after she misplaced management of the grasp recordings of her first six albums when she left the Big Machine document label in 2019, triggering a bitter and public dispute with its new proprietor, music government Scooter Braun.

Braun bought Swift’s grasp recordings to a personal fairness firm in a deal reported to be price greater than $300 million.

Source: www.anews.com.tr