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Image copyright Republic RecordsTaylor Swift's surprise eighth album, Folklore, has broken several chart records in its first week on sale.
The record was written and recorded during the coronavirus lockdown, and swerves away from the pop sound that's dominated her last three albums.
On Spotify, it achieved 80.6m streams in a single day, the highest-ever tally for a female artist.
In the US it sold 846,000 copies, making it the best-selling record of the year after just seven days on sale.
Swift also becomes the first artist in US chart history to have seven albums sell more than 500,000 copies in a single week; and the first female artist to have seven albums debut at number one.
As well as topping the US Billboard chart, Folklore reached the summit in the UK, Finland, Australia, Norway, New Zealand and Belgium.
In Ireland, Swift now has five number one albums - more than any other female artist in the 21st Century - overtaking Madonna and Beyoncé.
The success of the record also gave Swift three top 10 singles in the UK, with Cardigan entering the charts at six, followed by the Bon Iver duet Exile at eight, and Folklore's opening track The 1 at number 10.
Chart rules currently prevent an artist from having more than three tracks in the Top 100 at any given time. Otherwise, Swift would have had another 12 new entries - at numbers 13, 15, 18, 21, 24, 31, 36, 37, 40, 42, 45 and 51.
