American singer-writer Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ album has returned to the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart. As per Nielsen Music/MRC Data, the album’s aggregate sales surged over a million (to 1.04 million). Thus, it has become the first album to sell a million copies in the US in 2020, reported billboards.com.

The album sold 57,000 copies in the week ending October 22 that led to its sales jumping past a million mark.

The album ‘Folklore’ was officially released on July 24 and debuted atop the August 8-dated Billboard 200.  Moreover, Swift’s last album, ‘Lover’, released on August 23, 2019, was the only album to sell a million in the US in 2019. It sold 1.09 million copies that year, out of its total sale of 1.22 million.

This makes Swift’s ‘Folklore’ and ‘Lover’ the only albums released to sell a million copies in the US, in 2020 and 2019, respectively. 

Also, ‘Folklore’ is Swift’s ninth album to sell over a million copies in the US. Those nine albums consist of all eight of her studio efforts, besides her Christmas release ‘The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection’.  

 Swift’s million-selling albums, in order of release, include: Taylor Swift (2006, 5.75 million sold to date), The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection (2007, 1.08 million), Fearless (2008; 7.21 million), Speak Now (2010, 4.71 million), Red (2012, 4.49 million), 1989 (2014, 6.25 million), Reputation (2017, 2.28 million), Lover (2019, 1.22 million) and Folklore (2020, 1.04 million).