charts discussion RS year-end: Folklore #1, Taylor dominates (5 entries)

[peterstyles13]

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We already declared Taylor Swift’s Folklore to be the Best Album of 2020. But until now, we had yet to hear from the numbers. Now, the numbers have spoken, the data has assembled into integers and decimal points, and the answer is in: Folklore is the biggest album of 2020, too.

Swift’s eighth studio album, which is one of two full-lengths she dropped in 2020, takes the Number One spot on Rolling Stone‘s Year-End Top 200 Albums Chart. In 2020, Folklore pulled in close to 2.3 million album-equivalent units. (...)

Overall, Swift has five albums on the year-end RS 200, with Lover coming in at Number 28 and Evermore at Number 63 despite being released in early December. 1989 and Reputation take Numbers 116 and 165, respectively.

Source

 

Year-End Top 200 Album Chart (notable female entries)

 

Thoughts?

Edited January 5, 2021 by peterstyles13

[BlackoutZone]

Not surprised, it is in fact the biggest album of 2020

 

But can we get a main thread for RS YE lists with all the positions?

[franklin]

As it should be

[By the Water]

AOTY

 

[getawaytarte]

Shocking

[Ampersand13]

Hmm critically acclaimed and commercially successful? That sounds like TABS to me 

[chosensparkles]

as it should be

[By the Water]

1. folklore 2.3M

28. Lover 848.3k

63. evermore 544.3k

116. 1989 384.7k

165. reputation 314.8k

 

[Hot Volcano]

1 minute ago, By the Water said:

1. folklore 2.3M

28. Lover 848.3k

63. evermore 544.3k

116. 1989 384.7k

165. reputation 314.8k

 

reputation slaying after all these years

[idkwiam]

2 certain fan bases told me Taylor is over.

What's the truth?

 

[Sawk]

I’m in complete shock I totally did not see this coming 

 

[ucanfma]

5 minutes ago, Hot Volcano said:

reputation slaying after all these years

 

4 minutes ago, Almost Home said:

We need an exorcism 

 

i did something bad did THAT

[peterstyles13]

13 minutes ago, By the Water said:

1. folklore 2.3M

28. Lover 848.3k

63. evermore 544.3k

116. 1989 384.7k

165. reputation 314.8k

 

OVER!

 

[cruelhprince]

23M if she released exile

[By the Water]

28. Lover 848.3k

 

35. Chromatica 761.9k

42. Future Nostalgia 699.5k

62. Rare 552.1k

76. Romance 483.9k

156. A Star Is Born 326.4k

 

Loser smash hit

 

[peterstyles13]

18 minutes ago, By the Water said:

28. Lover 848.3k

 

35. Chromatica 761.9k

42. Future Nostalgia 699.5k

62. Rare 552.1k

76. Romance 483.9k

156. A Star Is Born 326.4k

 

Loser smash hit

 

[beagle]

As per today's hitsdd:

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... total album sales in all formats were down 9.2% to 102m.

OK, this is mixing up RS and Buzzangle data, but, assuming that Red, Fearless, Speak Now and TS have accumulated 600k sales between them, it would appear that roughly 1 out of every 20 albums sold in the US in 2020 was Taylor's. I think this is unprecedented domination - the Beatles have had multiple years with over 5% marketshare of the US album market and it's possible that in 1987 MJ managed it too, but I can't think of anybody else who might have had an year this huge. Any suggestions?

[Hector]

They're definitely not including pre-release numbers based on the figures for Dua & Gaga. 

[cityfolk]

TUN and Positions both above Rare, Romance, and other notable releases this past year or so 

 

Lover being that high oh wow 

[idkwiam]

13 minutes ago, beagle said:

As per today's hitsdd:

OK, this is mixing up RS and Buzzangle data, but, assuming that Red, Fearless, Speak Now and TS have accumulated 600k sales between them, it would appear that roughly 1 out of every 20 albums sold in the US in 2020 was Taylor's. I think this is unprecedented domination - the Beatles have had multiple years with over 5% marketshare of the US album market and it's possible that in 1987 MJ managed it too, but I can't think of anybody else who might have had an year this huge. Any suggestions?

Adele 2015?

[Selena Gomez]

folklore did that and 4.4m units overall for her charting albums. imagine if she wasn't over like ATRL claims! 

 

also taylena being together even in the charts aaaaaawww my f*cking faves. 

 

[beagle]

29 minutes ago, idkwiam said:

Adele 2015?

If she didn't release so close to the year's end, she might have managed it, but as it stands, 25 did (at the most generous estimation) 8 million, 21 added another 1.6 million and 19 - 700k, but out of a total market of 241 million, her marketshare was approximately 4.3%. Still very impressive, but album sales were not as moribund in 2015.

[Blue.]

If she releases a third album as good as F/E I am adding her to my sig.

[Feanor]

4 hours ago, By the Water said:

1. folklore 2.3M

28. Lover 848.3k

63. evermore 544.3k

116. 1989 384.7k

165. reputation 314.8k

 

what a remembered DISCOGRAPHY

 

[Michael196]

2 hours ago, Blue. said:

If she releases a third album as good as F/E I am adding her to my sig.

Have you heard of an album called sacRED?