{"id":2234,"date":"2021-04-18T15:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T22:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:36","slug":"taylor-swifts-re-recorded-fearless-album-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-chart-with-years-biggest-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2234","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2019s Re-Recorded \u2018Fearless\u2019 Album Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart with Year&#8217;s Biggest Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plus: She&#8217;s the first woman with three new No. 1 albums in less than a year.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 12 years after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>&nbsp;notched her first No. 1 album on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;chart in 2008 with her second studio set&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>, she\u2019s back atop the list with a re-recorded version of the album, titled&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>. The new set is her ninth No. 1 and scores the biggest week of 2021 for any album. It launches with 291,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 15, according to MRC Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>&nbsp;album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart dated Nov. 29, 2008, and spent 11 nonconsecutive weeks atop the chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Feb. 11, 2021, Swift&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9524797\/taylor-swift-fearless-rerecorded-love-story-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;she had re-recorded the 2008 album&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>&nbsp;as&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>. The new 26-track album has re-recordings of all 13 songs on&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>, along with the six bonus songs added to a 2009 reissue of&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>&nbsp;(dubbed the Platinum Edition) and the 2010 single \u201cToday Was a Fairytale.\u201d Beyond those 20 re-recordings,&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;also boasts six newly recorded \u201cfrom the vault\u201d songs that were written for the original&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>&nbsp;album, but were never recorded and released until now.ARTIST MENTIONED<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>\u00a0is the only No. 1 album of its kind: a re-recording of an artist\u2019s (own or another\u2019s) previously released album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on&nbsp;multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new April 24, 2021-dated chart (where&nbsp;<em>Fearless [Taylor\u2019s Version]<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on April 20. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>\u2019s 291,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending April 15, album sales comprise 179,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 109,000 units (equaling 142.98 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s tracks) and TEA units comprise 3,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Re-recordings&nbsp;of older songs or albums are treated separately from their originals, with independent chart histories for each version. Thus,&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;charts separately from the original album. The 2008&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>&nbsp;album falls off the new chart, after having re-entered a week earlier at No. 157 (chart dated April 17). In the latest tracking week, the 2008&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>&nbsp;album earned 6,200 equivalent album units (down 19%). Of that 6,200 sum, SEA units comprise 5,700 (down 21%, equaling 7.71 million on-demand streams of its tracks), album sales comprise 400 (up 15%) and TEA units comprise 100 (down 8%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s take a look at some of notable feats Swift achieves with the debut of&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ninth No. 1 Album:\u00a0<\/strong>As\u00a0<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>\u00a0marks Swift\u2019s ninth Billboard 200 No. 1, she ties\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/madonna\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna<\/a>\u00a0for the second-most No. 1 albums among women. Swift is closing in on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/barbra-streisand\" target=\"_blank\">Barbra Streisand<\/a>\u2019s all-time record among women of 11 No. 1 albums. Among all artists,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-beatles\" target=\"_blank\">The Beatles<\/a>\u00a0have the most No. 1s, with 19. Among all soloists,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/jay-z\" target=\"_blank\">Jay-Z<\/a>\u00a0leads with 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biggest Week of 2021 by Units Earned:&nbsp;<\/strong>With 291,000 equivalent album units earned,&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;scores the largest week for any album in 2021. It jumps past the previous high-water mark, set when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/morgan-wallen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;bowed at No. 1 with 265,000 units (chart dated Jan. 23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Three Largest Weeks for an Album in the Last Eight Months All Belong to Swift:&nbsp;<\/strong>Since August of 2020, Swift has not only claimed three No. 1s, but also the three biggest weeks among albums in units earned. On the Aug. 8, 2020-dated chart,&nbsp;<em>Folklore<\/em>&nbsp;debuted at No. 1 with 846,000 units.&nbsp;<em>Evermore<\/em>&nbsp;arrived at No. 1 on the Dec. 26, 2020, chart with 329,000 units. And now&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;starts with 291,000 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biggest Week for a Country Album Since 2015<\/strong>: As&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;bows with 291,000 units, it logs the largest week for a country album since 2015. The last country set to post a bigger frame was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/luke-bryan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luke Bryan<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Kill the Lights<\/em>, which debuted at No. 1 with 345,000 units (Aug. 29, 2015-dated chart).&nbsp;(Country albums are defined as those that have charted on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/country-albums\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Top Country Albums<\/a>&nbsp;chart. Both the original&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>&nbsp;album and the new&nbsp;<em>Fearless [Taylor\u2019s Version<\/em>] are charting on Top Country Albums.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>\u00a0has the biggest week for a country album by a female artist since the Billboard 200 chart transitioned from an album-sales only ranking to an equivalent album units-based chart on the Dec. 13, 2014, survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Strong Sales:<\/strong>&nbsp;With 179,000 copies sold in its first week,&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;logs the largest sales week for an album released in 2021, surpassing the opening week of Wallen\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;(74,000).&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;also has the biggest sales week for any album since Swift\u2019s last release,&nbsp;<em>Evermore<\/em>, sold 102,000 in its second week (Jan. 2-dated chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Largest Streaming Week for a Country Album by a Woman<\/strong>:&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;bows with 109,000 SEA units &#8212; totaling 142.98 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s tracks. That hefty sum marks the biggest streaming week for a country album by a woman. &nbsp;It surpasses the previous record of 44.67 million streams tallied by songs on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/brenda-lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brenda Lee<\/a>&nbsp;collection&nbsp;<em>Rockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree: The Decca Christmas Recordings<\/em>&nbsp;(Jan. 2, 2021, chart). The album was powered by Lee\u2019s evergreen holiday track \u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swift also scores the biggest&nbsp;<em>debut<\/em>&nbsp;streaming week for a country album by a woman, blowing past&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/maren-morris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maren Morris<\/a>\u2019 former high-water mark of 23.96 million streams earned by&nbsp;<em>Girl<\/em>&nbsp;on the March 23, 2019-dated chart. (Morris had a hand in helping Swift to her record &#8212; she\u2019s featured on the&nbsp;<em>Fearless [Taylor\u2019s Version]<\/em>&nbsp;song \u201cYou All Over Me [Taylor\u2019s Version] [From the Vault].)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest streaming week registered by\u00a0<em>any<\/em>\u00a0country album remains Wallen\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dangerous<\/em>, with 240.18 million streams registered in its debut frame (chart dated Jan. 23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Swift Now Has Three of the Top Five-Selling Albums of 2021:<\/strong>&nbsp;In terms of traditional album sales, Swift already has three of the top five-selling albums of 2021 so far. Wallen\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is tops with 218,000 copies sold,&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;is No. 2 with 179,000,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/carrie-underwood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carrie Underwood<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>My Savior<\/em>&nbsp;is No. 3 with 114,000,&nbsp;<em>Folklore<\/em>&nbsp;is No. 4 with just over 111,000 and&nbsp;<em>Evermore<\/em>&nbsp;is No. 5 with a little under 111,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shortest Wait Between New No. 1 Albums by a Woman:<\/strong>&nbsp;Swift waited just four months between the first weeks at No. 1 for&nbsp;<em>Evermore<\/em>&nbsp;(Dec. 26, 2020) and&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;(April 24, 2021). That\u2019s the shortest gap between new No. 1 albums by a woman. Swift beats her own record, set with the four months and two weeks between the first weeks at No. 1 for&nbsp;<em>Folklore<\/em>&nbsp;(Aug. 8, 2020) and&nbsp;<em>Evermore<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last time an act had a&nbsp;<em>shorter<\/em>&nbsp;wait between No. 1s&nbsp;<em>before<\/em>&nbsp;Swift was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BTS<\/a>, when the group waited a little over three months between&nbsp;<em>Love Yourself: Tear<\/em>&nbsp;(June 2, 2018) and&nbsp;<em>Love Yourself: Answer<\/em>&nbsp;(Sept. 8, 2018). Prior to that,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Future<\/a>&nbsp;achieved a first by landing back-to-back new No. 1s in successive weeks in 2017 (with his self-titled album March 11, 2017 and&nbsp;<em>HNDRXX<\/em>&nbsp;on March 18, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First Woman With Three New No. 1 Albums in Less Than a Year:<\/strong>&nbsp;With eight months and two weeks between the first weeks at No. 1 for&nbsp;<em>Folklore<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Evermore<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>, Swift becomes the first woman in the 65-year history of the chart with three new No. 1s in less than 12 months. Previously, the fastest a female artist had notched three new No. 1s was just under 14 months, when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/donna-summer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donna Summer<\/a>&nbsp;topped the list with&nbsp;<em>Live and More<\/em>&nbsp;(Nov. 11, 1978),&nbsp;<em>Bad Girls<\/em>&nbsp;(June 16, 1979) and&nbsp;<em>On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I &amp; II<\/em>&nbsp;(Jan. 5, 1980).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last act to score three No. 1s\u00a0<em>faster<\/em>\u00a0than Swift was Future, when he logged his first three No. 1s in just six months and three weeks with\u00a0<em>DS2<\/em>\u00a0(Aug. 8, 2015);\u00a0<em>What a Time to Be Alive<\/em>, with Drake (Oct. 10, 2015); and\u00a0<em>Evol<\/em>\u00a0(Feb. 27, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back on the new Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dmx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DMX<\/a>\u2019s greatest hits compilation&nbsp;<em>The Best of DMX&nbsp;<\/em>soars from No. 73 (its prior peak) to No. 2 following the rapper\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9550921\/dmx-rapper-ruff-ryders-dead-dies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">death<\/a>&nbsp;on April 9. The set earned 77,000 equivalent album units (up 544%) in the week ending April 15. Of that sum, 59,000 comprise SEA units (up 508%, equaling 88.56 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs), 9,000 comprise album sales (up 733%) and 9,000 comprise TEA units (up 666%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 21-track&nbsp;<em>Best of DMX<\/em>&nbsp;includes such hit singles as \u201cRuff Ryders\u2019 Anthem,\u201d \u201cParty Up (Up in Here)\u201d and \u201cX Gon\u2019 Give It to Ya.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Best of DMX<\/em>&nbsp;marks the late star\u2019s highest charting album, and first top 10, since 2006\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Year of the Dog\u2026<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Again<\/em>&nbsp;debuted and peaked at No. 2. In total,&nbsp;<em>The Best of DMX<\/em>&nbsp;marks his seventh top 10 album, as he also opened his chart career with five consecutive No. 1s between 1998 and 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DMX has two more albums on the latest Billboard 200, as his former No. 1s\u00a0<em>It\u2019s Dark and Hell Is Hot<\/em>, from 1998 (No. 46; 14,000 equivalent album units, up 458%), and\u00a0<em>Flesh of My Flesh Blood of My Blood<\/em>, from 1999 (No. 107; 9,000 units, up 469%) re-enter the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/justin-bieber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Justin Bieber<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Justice<\/em>&nbsp;falls 1-3 in its third week on the Billboard 200, earning 60,000 equivalent album units (down 20%). Three more former No. 1s are next on the list, as Wallen\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is steady at No. 4 with 58,000 units (down 8%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rod-wave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rod Wave<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>SoulFly<\/em>&nbsp;dips 3-5 with 55,000 units (down 19%) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Positions<\/em>&nbsp;bolts 17-6 with 54,000 units (up 138%).&nbsp;<em>Positions<\/em>&nbsp;zooms back into the top 10 following the April 9 release of its vinyl LP and cassette, which powers the bulk of the set\u2019s 35,000 in album sales for the week (up 1,613%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-weeknd\" target=\"_blank\">The Weeknd<\/a>\u2019s best-of set\u00a0<em>The Highlights<\/em>\u00a0slips 6-7 with 41,000 equivalent album units (down 4%),\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-tjay\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Tjay<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Destined to Win<\/em>\u00a0falls 5-8 with 38,000 units (down 39%),\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop-smoke\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Smoke<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1\u00a0<em>Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon\u00a0<\/em>descends 7-9 with 36,000 units (down 5%) and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dua-lipa\" target=\"_blank\">Dua Lipa<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>\u00a0slips down 9-10 with 33,000 units (down 3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2234\" data-postid=\"2234\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2234 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: She&#8217;s the first woman with three new No. 1 albums in less than a year. More than 12 years after&nbsp;Taylor Swift&nbsp;notched her first No. 1 album on the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;chart in 2008 with her second studio set&nbsp;Fearless, she\u2019s back atop the list with a re-recorded version of the album, titled&nbsp;Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version). 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