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# Taylor Swift rewrites history with critically acclaimed tenth studio album ‘Midnights’
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/taylor-swift-rewrites-history-with-critically-acclaimed-tenth-studio-album-midnights/
- Published: 2022-10-28T18:34:26.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-28T18:34:26.000Z
- Description: We look at the stats behind Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Arts, Music, LGBT, LGBTQ, music, pop Music, Taylor Swift

Following a record-breaking week for **Taylor Swift**, her critically acclaimed tenth studio album ***Midnights*** has topped the UK Official Albums Chart, while lead single *Anti-Hero* has topped the UK Official Singles Chart.

Taylor’s *Midnights* is the fast-selling album of 2022 in the UK, with **204,000 sales**, more than doubling her previous biggest opening week in the UK (with *1989* in 2014). Meanwhile, *Anti-Hero* is the Biggest **Spotify** UK debut from an international artist in history. Taylor is the first female artist to debut at Number 1 on both the UK Singles and Albums Charts simultaneously since **Miley Cyrus** in 2013.

Taylor also rewrites UK Official Charts history this week as *Midnights* accumulates the biggest first week vinyl sales since modern chart records began (in 1994). *Midnights* was certified gold in the UK after just two days of its release.

With nine consecutive Number 1 albums now under her belt, Taylor has set a new all-time Official Chart record, generating the fastest succession of nine UK Number 1 albums of any female artist.

Earlier this week Taylor broke records across all the major music streaming platforms. She became Spotify’s **Most Streamed Artist in a Single Day**, while *Midnights* became Spotify’s **Most Streamed Album in a Single Day** (with 185M+ streams). Taylor Swift now holds the top five biggest streaming debuts in Spotify’s global chart history. *Midnights* also broke the record for the biggest pop album of all time on **Apple Music** by first-day streams. On **Amazon Music**, Taylor received globally the most first day album streams, the most first week album streams and the most **Alexa** requests of any artist ever.

Globally, Taylor’s *Midnights* has accumulated over 2.5 million album equivalents that includes over 1 billion streams, after scoring 67 #1’s on **iTunes**.

In the US, *Midnights* is already the best-selling album of 2022\. It has sold over 1.4 million overall and over 1 million physical albums, with 500,000+ of that sum attributed to vinyl sales. It has also accumulated the highest week 1 sales since Taylor’s *Reputation* in 2017 and is the biggest week one seller on vinyl since the ‘90s. While *Anti-Hero* became Taylor’s 55th #1 hit on iTunes singles – the most of any artist in history.

*Midnights* also marks a first for Taylor in Europe, as it sees her score her first ever number 1 debut in the album charts of both France and Germany.

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