Taylor Swift has change into the primary feminine artist to have 4 albums on the Billboard 200 chart. The artist has been deep in re-recording her early albums to maintain inventive and monetary management.
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Singer Taylor Swift has damaged new floor. She is the primary feminine artist to have 4 albums on the Billboard 200 chart. As NPR’s Anastasia Tsioulcas reviews, this milestone comes as Swift has been deep in rerecording her early albums to maintain inventive and monetary management over her work.
ANASTASIA TSIOULCAS, BYLINE: Taylor Swift launched the album “Converse Now (Taylor’s Model)” earlier this month. It rapidly soared to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the chart that tracks the most well-liked albums within the U.S.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “LONG LIVE (TAYLOR’S VERSION)”)
TAYLOR SWIFT: (Singing) Lengthy stay the partitions we crashed by way of. How the dominion lights shined…
TSIOULCAS: “Converse Now” joins two different Taylor Swift rerecorded albums – “Midnights” and “Lover” – on that chart, alongside along with her 2020 album “Folklore.” Again in 2019, Swift mentioned she could be rerecording and rereleasing all six albums she’d first made for her earlier file label, Huge Machine. She introduced that call after Huge Machine bought her catalog to a different firm. Swift now financially and artistically controls these rerecorded albums, that are all being launched with the subtitle “Taylor’s Model.” That is the primary time in practically 60 years that any dwelling musical artist has managed this chart feat. Trumpeter Herb Alpert pulled it off in 1966. Prince had 5 albums within the prime 10 in 2016, however that was simply after his premature loss of life. Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR Information, New York.
(SOUNDBITE OF TAYLOR SWIFT SONG, “FEARLESS”)
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