This is so scary!
04.08.2020 - 16:55 / officialcharts.com
This past week, Taylor Swift became the only female solo artist to have scored five Number 1 albums this millennium. Her latest five albums Red (2012), 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017), Lover (2019) and Folklore (2020) have all topped the Official Irish Albums Chart and, impressively, they all ruled the Top 50 within the last decade.
Since the turn of the century, just 10 women have scored three or more chart toppers on the Official Irish Albums Chart, but who are they?
For Taylor to have the
This is so scary!
Taylor Swift is Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart for a third non-consecutive week with Folklore, pipping Biffy Clyro to the post.
The Killers' sixth studio album Imploding The Mirage is released this week (August 21), but it's their debut single that continues to be a talking point some 17 years after it was released.
Taylor Swift has reclaimed her throne to become Number 1 once more on the Official Irish Albums Chart.
There have been cases in which albums have produced numerous hit songs, spawned global, mega-selling stadium tours and achieved critical acclaim, yet despite all of those ingredients, they didn't get to Number 1 anywhere... except for Ireland. Let's take a look at a selection.
Taylor Swift has beaten Fontaines D.C. to this week’s UK Number One album, extending ‘Folklore’’s time at the top to two weeks.The Irish band released their second album ‘A Hero’s Death’ last Friday (July 31) and were initially looking set to score their first Number One with the record.However, the CD release of Swift’s eighth album was brought forward at the last minute to August 4, bolstering her sales for this week’s chart figures.
Taylor Swift scoops Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart for a second week with Folklore.
Joel Corry and MNEK hold off a resurging Dermot Kennedy to scoop a third week at Number 1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart.
The Coronas emerge victorious in their head-to-head race with Fontaines D.C. to land Number 1 on this week’s Official Irish Albums Chart.
2020 has been a cultural reset for a multitude of reasons, with the Irish music sector affected positively by a rising number of female musicians getting their much-deserved time to shine.
Taylor Swift, Fontaines D.C. is ready for the chart crown.The Irish pop-punk outfit leads the midweek U.K.
Fontaines D.C. are on course to achieve their first Number 1 album in the UK charts.According to today’s Official Chart Update (August 3), the Irish post-punk outfit lead the race to Number 1 with their second album, ‘A Hero’s Death’.
Fontaines D.C. are in pole position for Number 1 on this Friday’s Official Albums Chart.
The biggest battle for Number 1 on the Official Irish Charts in 2020 so far has begun – it’s looking like a Dublin derby as post-punk five-piece Fontaines D.C. take on rock trio The Coronas for chart supremacy.
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Congratulations to Taylor Swift is officially the female solo artist with the most Official Irish Albums Chart Number 1s of the millennium.