What a time to be a Taylor Swift fan: While Fearless (Taylor’s Version) makes its debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, making it her third new No. 1 album in less than a year. Swift is literally in the studio recording another album.
“Been in the studio all day recording the next one – it’s really so amazing what you all did here,” Swift wrote on Sunday (April 18) as she retweeted and commented on Billboard‘s report that her re-recording of Undaunted launched at # 1 with 291,000 equivalent album units earned in the US in the week ending April 15, according to MRC Data.
More than 12 years after Swift had her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with the original Undaunted, the new Fearless (Taylor’s Version) has become her ninth number 1. And, among its achievements, it is the only No. 1 album of its kind: a re-recording of an artist’s previously released album (own or someone else’s).