Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 1.653 million copies sold, making it the biggest debut of her career

Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) debuted atop the Billboard 200 this week.

The Lavender Haze singer’s album re-recording, which will resume her blockbuster Eras tour in South America on November 9, 2014, has sold 1.653 million albums, making it the biggest debut of her record-breaking career.

The album was released on October 27 and is the Anti-Hero singer’s 13th to reach number one on the Billboard chart.

This week’s album sales broke the record previously set with the release of the original version of the album in 2014, at 1.287 million.

1989 (Taylor’s Version) also marks the biggest debut of any album, based on unit sales, since Adele’s 25 in 2015. Billboard reported.

All of the Bad Blood singer’s thirteen full-length studio albums and re-recorded projects, starting with 2008’s Fearless, which was her second studio album, through 2023’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version), have debuted at number one.

When the Karma hitmaker dropped the re-recorded album last week, she wrote on Instagram: ‘I was born in 1989, first reinvented in 2014, and a part of me was reclaimed in 2023 with the reissue of this album. I love so much.

“Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine the magic you would cast over my life for so long.”

She continued, “This moment is a reflection of the forest we’ve wandered through and all this love between us still glows in the darkest darkness.

‘It is with gratitude and great amazement that I present to you my version of 1989. He has been waiting for you. Taylor.’

As she sings on the song Mastermind from her 2022 album Midnights: ‘It was all by design. Because I’m a mastermind.’

And the Shake It Off singer, 33, is truly a mastermind when she came up with the idea to re-record her albums after Scooter Braun bought her masters from Scott Borchetta’s music label Big Machine, where she spent the first decade of her career spent. , in 2019.

At the time, Taylor made her displeasure clear by writing a lengthy post about it Tumblr.

‘For years I have asked and advocated for an opportunity to take ownership of my work. “Instead, I was given the opportunity to re-sign with Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album at a time, one for every new one I turned in,” she wrote.

“I walked away because I knew that once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, and with it me and my future. I had to make the unbearable choice to leave my past behind.

She continued, “Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I created and paid for with the money I made playing bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums.”

She ended the post with, “Sad and grossed out, (broken heart emoji) Taylor.”

So she decided to re-record her version of her first six albums and that has led to the original albums being ignored in favor of the Taylor’s Version albums, all of which contain a number of previously unreleased songs ‘From the Vault’.

Re-recording: The Lavender Haze singer’s 2014 re-recording sold 1.653 million albums, making it the biggest debut of her record-breaking career

Record sales: The album was released on October 27 and is the Anti-Hero singer’s 13th to reach number one on the Billboard chart

Mastermind: This week’s album sales broke the record previously set with the release of the original version of the album in 2014, at 1.287 million

Biggest debut: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) also marks the biggest debut of any album, based on unit sales, since Adele’s 25th in 2015, Billboard reported

Favorite record: ‘To be completely honest, this is my most FAVORITE re-recording I’ve ever made because the five From the Vault tracks are so insane. I can’t believe they were ever left behind. But not for long!’ She added, “The 1989 album changed my life in countless ways,” she wrote on Instagram

Streaming record: Swift also set a record for the most streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history on October 27 and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) was the most streamed album in a single day

Back on tour: The Bad Blood singer will resume her blockbuster Eras Tour in South America on Thursday, November 9

Swift also set a record for the most streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history on October 27, and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) was the most streamed album in a single day.

1989 (Taylor’s Version) features more “From the Vault” songs than any of her other reissues, prompting her to write:

“To be completely honest, this is my most FAVORITE re-recording I’ve ever done because the five From the Vault songs are so insane. I can’t believe they were ever left behind. But not for long!’

She added, “The 1989 album changed my life in countless ways.”