


Alongside its rival in this week’s Official UK Albums Chart race – Arctic Monkeys’ The Car – it is only the third album to sell over 100,000 chart units in its first week this year, following Harry Styles’ Harry’s House.

In its first three days of tracking, it had racked up 140,000 chart sales. In the UK, it was a similar story, with Midnights becoming the fastest-selling album of 2022 so far. That figure gave it the largest sales week for any album since Swift released reputation in 2017, made it the top-selling album of 2022 to date and has set a record for single-week vinyl album sales in modern times. Yesterday (October 24), it was announced that Midnights is on course to break chart records, with more than 800,000 copies sold in the US over all available formats on its first day. “Got to make this with my best friends greatest of greats icon of burlesque and glamour genius and actual dame and my partner in Midnights mayhem Love you guys so much. “Bejeweled video is out NOW! Directed by this tired tacky wench,” Swift announced on Twitter.
