In early November, Taylor Swift will score another No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with her set about to drop. 1989 (Taylor’s version). The re-recorded version of her first pure pop collection is all but guaranteed to reach No. 1, and when it does, it will be the third time a set of songs has ascended to the top rung of the all-encompassing most popular songs ranking. -Consumed feature films in the US
1989 was first featured on the Billboard 200 back in late 2014. Swift once again topped the list with a blockbuster release that wasted no time in taking the number one spot straight away. 1989 took first place in the ranking with 1.287 million copies sold.
In the years since 1989 Debuting at No. 1, the set continued to perform well on the Billboard 200. In fact, it even recently returned to the top 10 after interest in the title skyrocketed following Swift’s announcement that he would be the next King. -recorded and re-released.
A year later, Swift dominated the Billboard 200 with 1989, singer-songwriter Ryan Adams contributed his own contributions to the set. The rocker recorded a full-length album of covers, mixing little with the original. Adams version 1989 debuted at number 7 on the Billboard 200 in fall 2015. Impressively, it started just one position ahead of the Swift edition, which was still holding a strong position in the top 10 at the time.
Now Swift is set to return to the highest region of the Billboard 200 with 1989 (Taylor’s version). It’s impossible to say exactly how big the title will be when it releases, but so far all three re-recordings Swift has released have reached the top and continue to get bigger and bigger. 1989 (Taylor’s version) will probably start at a million equivalent units or perhaps just under that amount, making it not only the largest opening total for one of its rewrites, but also one of the largest in recent memory.