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12. Fearless (Taylor's Version)

Released: 2021

Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1

Total UK chart sales: 149,000

The first of Taylor's original six albums to be re-released and re-recorded following a very public falling out with her old record label Big Machine over the rights to their master recordings, Fearless (Taylor's Version) sees Taylor take ownership (literally) over her sophomore album's eclectic country-pop soundscape with a distinctly nostalgic lens.

 

11. Taylor Swift

Released: 2007

Official Albums Chart peak: Number 81

Total UK chart sales: 217,000

Everyone has to start somewhere. With cutesy tracks such as Tim McGraw, Teardrops On My Guitar and A Place In This World, Taylor Swift remains a fascinating insight into the genesis of a true superstar.

 

10. Red (Taylor's Version)

Released: 2021

Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1

Total UK chart sales: 256,000

Grap that red scarf, take a sip of your pumpkin spice lattee and get ready to watch the leaves change colour. Red (Taylor's Version) sees Tay revisit her masterful fourth album, the first instance which showed her fully embrace her pop hitmaking skills, as well as some of the most masterful songwriting of her career.

 

Of course, the centrepiece of the album is the long-mythologised 10 minute version of heart-tearing ballad All Too Well, which Taylor recasts from a sensitive and tender lament to a powerful odyssey of a relationship whose scars can be felt long after they were first made.

 

9. Evermore

Released: 2020

Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1

Total UK chart sales: 302,000

The folksy sister record to Folklore, Evermore takes a deeper dive into the mystical forest that Tay's 2020 isolation album built. Across tracks with Bon Iver and Haim, it sees Taylor become more and more fascinated with constructing labyrinthine fictional narratives in her songs, as opposed to strictly autobiographical ones.

 

8. Speak Now

Released: 2010

Official Albums Chart peak: Number 6

Total UK chart sales: 389,000

Written entirely by Taylor herself, Speak Now was formed after the success of Fearless, when some critics began to doubt that a teenager could really write songs that good without help.

 

And what did she do? Prove to them that she could do it entirely by herself.

 

7. folklore

Released: 2020

Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1

Total UK chart sales: 492,000

A surprise release during the height of COVID, folklore is an expansive and surprising body of work, even two years after its release. Finding the perfect collaborators in Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner of the National, many of folklore's tracks hum with enigma and mystery.

 

Intertwined within the album are three interconnected tracks (Cardigan, August and Betty) telling the story of three teenagers caught in a scandalous affair, told from three different perspectives. They rank among some of Taylor's greatest-ever accomplishments as both a lyricist and performer.

 

6. Lover

Released: 2019

Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1

Total UK chart sales: 526,000

Taking a deep inhale of breath after the chaos surrounding reputation, Lover finds Taylor back in a sugary-sweet and contemplative mood. Singles Me! and You Need To Calm Down may be the singer at her most gregarious, but it's the quiet hum of the title track, the under-scored synths of The Archer and the magnificent new-wave bounce of Cruel Summer (the hit single that never was...until it suddenly was) make Lover shine.

 

Taylor Swift Official Charts Number 1 Album Midnights and Single Anti-Hero

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5. Midnights

Released: 2022

Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1

Total UK chart units: 611,000

Labyrinthine and complex, Midnights may have started off as a creative writing exercise for Taylor (with each of its thirteen tracks representing a sleepless night at different points in her life) but the end result is a charismatic and sometimes mysterious collection of songs that blend the fictional narratives Taylor experimented with during the pandemic with a blurred, off-centre reality.

 

Midnights' massive UK chart debut of 204,000 units was Taylor's biggest first week sales to date - and helped her secure one of 2022's biggest albums, just a few weeks after release. In 2023, Midnights has gone straight in at Number 5 on Taylor's all-time list, bolstered by 235,000 physical sales and album equivalent streams of 361,000 (her fourth best overall).

 

4. reputation

Released: 2017

Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1

Total UK chart sales: 642,000

There will be no explanation, there will just be reputation. So went the announcement of Taylor's incendiary sixth album. Misunderstood at the time of its release, the years have been nothing but kind to this complicated and un-compromising piece of pop craftmanship.

 

Because really, reputation is an album of two halves; the braggadocious first, mainly produced by Max Martin, sees Taylor flex a heel turn as a villainous alter-ego (I Did Something Bad, ...Ready For It?) and a more sombre second-half that sees Tay break down her walls and let us see the cracks behind the veneer.

 

Home to her first UK Number 1 single, Look What You Made Me Do, reputation is the ultimate proof that sometimes, you have to burn it all down to start again.

 

3. Fearless

Released: 2008

Official Albums Chart peak: Number 5

Total UK chart sales: 704,000

Jump in head first, Fearless. There's the lingering spectre of Shania Twain on Taylor's effervescent sophomore record. A thrillingly ambitious album that sees her pair her country roots with a bright-eyed pop vision that gave her a one-two punch of singles, Love Story and You Belong With Me, that changed the game forever.

 

2. Red

Released: 2012

Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1

Total UK chart sales: 848,000

Red represents the best of two worlds. It sees Taylor finessing her already established skill at penning confessional country ballads (this time infused with a heavy rock influence, such as State Of Grace and Holy Ground) as well as finding her ideal pop partners with Max Martin and Shellback (We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, I Knew You Were Trouble).

 

Taylor's second-most successful album in the UK, Red has pushed more than 848,000 chart sales here. You can read more about how Taylor successfully pivoted to pop on Red here.

 

1. 1989

Released: 2014

Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1

Total UK chart sales: 1.6 million

The perfect pop album for the perfect pop star, 1989 was the key that enabled Taylor Swift to conquer the world.

 

There was no room for error or compromise on this hits-packed LP, Taylor's first official 'pop' album that pulls from so many disparate forms of pop, from icy minimalism (Blank Space), maximalist big-band (Shake It Off) and coquettish French disco (Style), it's a wonder that all that people ever doubted she could make the transition from country to pop and do it better than anyone had ever done it before.

 

1989 is, obviously, Taylor's biggest album in the UK, and it leaves no prisoners. It's gained over 1.6 million chart sales to date, as well as being her biggest physical seller (745,000), most digitally-downloaded (399,000) and most-streamed (album equivalent streams of 500,000) to date. Now that's what you call an imperial phase.

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    I've done song mathing: SINGLES CHART: Total weeks spent in the UK singles chart - 914 weeks Average number of weeks spent in the UK singles chart - 11 weeks Taylor's 10 longest-charting songs in th

Nice to an updated list by the OCC!

 

I wonder if Midnights can become her second highest selling album here in combined units after 1989 eventually? I’m unsure on what the original Red and Fearless pull units wise weekly on average now they’ve been re-recorded as Taylor’s Versions though.

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Nice to an updated list by the OCC!

 

I wonder if Midnights can become her second highest selling album here in combined units after 1989 eventually? I’m unsure on what the original Red and Fearless pull units wise weekly on average now they’ve been re-recorded as Taylor’s Versions though.

 

Those 2 have gone up 20k from the totals last November on the previous page whereas all the others have gone up significantly faster (bar debut poor debut)

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Albums end of Q3 update courtesy of vidacpper:

 

2 2 264,200 681,200 Taylor Swift Midnights 03/11/22 1

 

11 11 168,000 1,709,400 Taylor Swift 1989 08/11/14 5

 

14 15 154,400 589,200 Taylor Swift Lover 05/09/19 8

 

19 19 139,200 548,200 Taylor Swift Folklore 06/08/20 11

 

20 21 132,000 132,000 Taylor Swift Speak Now (Taylor's Version) 20/07/23 1

 

24 24 127,600 695,400 Taylor Swift Reputation 23/11/17

 

48 48 81,200 335,600 Taylor Swift Evermore 24/12/20 34

 

50 49 79,000 287,800 Taylor Swift Red (Taylor's Version) 25/11/21 37

 

I know estimates but wow fingers crossed RedTV goes platinum this year

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Has anyone got any of the American sales update?
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1,792,380 Taylor Swift - 1989

874,532 Taylor Swift - Red

830,787 Taylor Swift - Midnights

823,579 Taylor Swift - reputation

726,521 Taylor Swift - Lover

718,518 Taylor Swift - Fearless

692,553 Taylor Swift - folklore

421,769 Taylor Swift - evermore

416,676 Taylor Swift - Speak Now

390,226 Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor's Version)

357,565 Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)

251,320 Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift

217,947 Taylor Swift - Fearless (Taylor's Version)

209,302 Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Taylor's Version)

 

 

Taken from this week's sales thread

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The Tortured Poets Department - Taylor Swift: 447,084
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1,873,366 Taylor Swift - 1989

985,195 Taylor Swift - Midnights

970,744 Taylor Swift - reputation

901,445 Taylor Swift - Red

 

From this week's sales article

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Does anyone know how much Look What You Made Me Do sold in its first week?

I have found different reports form Music Week:

Figure 1: Look What You Made Me Do sold 65,415 copies.

Music Week for 7 September 2017, commentary by Alan Jones:

Something of a departure for 27-year-old Swift, featuring a fairly dark lyric and an interpolation of Right Said Fred's I'm Too Sexy - which was in the midst of a six-week run at its peak position of No.2 exactly 26 years ago - Look What You Made Me Do is her 26th charted single and her 10th to reach the Top 10 but the first to reach No.1. Exploding out of the box with sales of 65,415 copies (including 35,665 from streams), Look What You Made Me Do topped both paid-for sales and streaming charts for the week, and surpasses Swift's previous highest weekly sale of 62,786 - all paid-for - as recorded by I Knew You Were Trouble as it climbed 8-7 in the final week of 2012.

She surpassed this figure with ME! in May 2019, which sold 65,761 units first week. The figures provided by the OCC in their article (30,000 sales and 5.3 million streams) would have also put Look What You Made Me Do around 65,000 units using the conversion rate used back then of 150 streams being equivalent to 1 sale.

Figure 2: Look What You Made Me Do sold 83,246 copies.

The Music Week article for Anti-Hero provides a second figure for Look What You Made Me Do:

After four weeks at No.1, Sam Smith & Kim Petras’ Unholy dips to No.2 (55,195 sales), ceding pole position to Anti-Hero, which storms to first week consumption of 78,993 units (1,688 digital downloads, the rest from sales-equivalent streams) to become Taylor Swift’s second No.1 single. It does so a little over five years after Look What You Made Me Do was her first on slightly higher sales of 83,247. That being said, Anti-Hero’s tally is the highest for a No.1 for 22 weeks.

Which of the two is actually correct?

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593,456 Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor's Version)

467,373 Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)

298,493 Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Taylor's Version)

289,646 Taylor Swift - Fearless (Taylor's Version)

From music week,

Would still love these to reach the platinum (FTV, SNTV) and double platinum (1989TV) even though it is fantastic news she got her masters back

6 hours ago, 777666jason said:

593,456 Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor's Version)

467,373 Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)

298,493 Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Taylor's Version)

289,646 Taylor Swift - Fearless (Taylor's Version)

From music week,

Would still love these to reach the platinum (FTV, SNTV) and double platinum (1989TV) even though it is fantastic news she got her masters back

Looks like 1989 TV will go 2x Platinum soon, and Speak Now TV and Fearless TV will go Platinum soon.

6 hours ago, DanielsAloud said:

Looks like 1989 TV will go 2x Platinum soon, and Speak Now TV and Fearless TV will go Platinum soon.

My guess is 2/3 weeks maks for SNTV

4/5 weeks for 1989TV

10-15 weeks for FTV

Could be totally wrong though

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SNTV did it in 2 weeks as expected 🙌

1989TV done around 4k so would be around 597k so 2 to 3 weeks guess would be right

FTV hardest to predict as it seems to perform poorest probably needs 9k now but how long that would take, definitely before years end

Debut was on 251k back in April last year really hope it can go platinum to complete the set be interesting to see what its on now

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The tracks from "reputation" from best to worst selling. Units for the top 5 are also there. This is as of 9th June 2025.

  1. Look What You Made Me Do - 1.58 million

  2. Don't Blame Me - 1.13 million

  3. ...Ready For It? - 1.08 million

  4. Delicate - 1 million

  5. Getaway Car - 698,000

  6. Gorgeous

  7. End Game

  8. I Did Something Bad

  9. Call It What You Want

  10. Dress

  11. King Of My Heart

  12. Dancing With Our Hands Tied

  13. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

  14. New Year's Day

  15. So It Goes...

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