taylor swift’s achievements, a LONG, much needed, thread

NOTE: i’m not gonna add all her achievements because i don’t have a whole week to finish this thread

FEARLESS era
- won album of the year with her second album
- became the most awarded country album in history
- love story became one of the best selling singles of all time and was once the best selling country song
- you belong with me became her second best-selling single

FEARLESS ERA PT. 2
- fearless became the best selling album of 2009 with over 3.2 million copies despite being released in november and it being a country album
- one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century (12M)
- topped the BB200 for 11 consecutive weeks

SPEAK NOW era
- debuted with 1M copies first week (16th album to do so)
- biggest debut of 2010 and second biggest debut for a country artist
- after only 10 weeks, it became the third best-selling album of 2010
- gave swift 17 hot 100 hits after every album track charted

SPEAK NOW ERA PT. 2
- first female solo artist to have 3 consecutive albums sell 4M copies
- became the 10th best selling digital album in history in 2012
- first female artist and third overall to have more than 10 concurrent hot 100 hits
- named best album of 2020 (RS)

RED era
- debuted with 1.2M copies
- became fastest-selling album in over a decade
- outsold then top 52 albums in the BB200 COMBINED on its debut
- biggest first week sales for a country album
- second biggest album of 2012 despite being released in october 22nd

RED era PT 2
- first artist since the beatles to log 6 weeks (and more) at N.1 with three consecutive albums on the BB200
- at just 24, taylor has won over 200 awards
- WANEGBT became her first #1 hit
- first artist in history to have two songs debut with 400K+ copies

1989 era
- debuted with 1.287M copies despite being released in an album sales decline and it being swift’s first pop album
- became the first artist to have 3 albums debut with 1M copies
- only album in 2014 that sold 1M copies
- topped the BB100 for 11 weeks

1989 era PT. 2
- first album since her fearless to spend more than 10 weeks at #1 (and the 4th album of the 200’s)
- it spent its full first year inside the top 10
- third best-selling album of the 2010’s
- 1989 tour grossed over 250M (highest grossing tour in 2015)

1989 era PT. 3
- won album of the year making taylor the first female artist in history to win aoty twice
- 3 #1 singles; blank space, shake it off and bad blood
- SIO became the 22nd song to debut at #1
- stayed inside the BB100 for 50 consecutive weeks
- certified diamond

1989 era PT. 4
- shake it off sold 544K units, making it the largest debut for a single in 2014
- spent 24 non-consecutive weeks inside the top 10
- first female artist to replace herself at #1 after blank space dethroned SIO
- blank space stayed at #1 for 7 consecutive weeks

1989 era PT. 5
- bad blood had one of the largest jumps in BB100 history (52 positions to #1)
- first artist since adele to have 3 #1’s from one album
- bad blood became the 10th best selling single of 2015
- 1989 became the most awarded pop album in history

reputation era
- had over 400K pre-orders prior to its release
- became the biggest selling album in 2017 after being released for 4 days
- debuted with 1.238M sales (1.216M pure sales despite the decline over the years)
- only artist to have 4 albums debut with 1M+ copies

reputation era PT. 2
- 10th biggest debut week in history
- outsold the whole BB200 COMBINED
- first female artist since adele (2015) to stay more than two weeks at #1
- second best-selling album of 2017 despite being released in november
- LWYMMD debuted at #1

reputation era PT. 3
- LWYMMD broke the record for most plays on spotify in a day
- broke the 24hr YT record (at the time)
- fastest selling single since shape of you
- became most streamed song by a female in a week (84,4M)
- debuted with 350K+ copies

reputation era PT. 4
- first artist since ed to have two songs sell over 100K copies within a week
- first female artist to have two sings in the top 5 (since her own blank space and SIO)
- highest grossing tour in U.S history
- massive 345.7M gross with just 53 shows

lover era
- best selling solo album of 2019 despite being released in august
- most pre-saved female artist album in apple music and most pre-saved pop album
- best selling pre-orders in target
- fastest western album to reach a 3X diamond certification in china

lover era PT. 2
- 450K copies sold in a day (U.S) having the biggest first day of 2019
- biggest sales week of 2019 with 867K copies (679K pure despite decline)
- biggest debut since reputation
- first female artist to have 6 albums sell more than 500K

lover era PT. 3
- second biggest streaming debut week for any female artist
- outsold BB200 COMBINED (first album to do so since reputation)
- ties beyoncé with most consecutive #1 debut weeks
- biggest debut in amazon history
- all 18 track simultaneously charted

lover era PT. 4
- was named the artist of the decade in the amas
- first ever woman of the decade, a new award created by billboard
- only album released in 2019 that sold more than 1M copies in the U.S
- ME! had the biggest jump in BB100 history and broke the VEVO record

folklore era
- taylor’s most critically acclaimed album
- by its 3rd week it sold 1M copies in the U.S, fastest album in 2020 to do so
- 44M streams on its first day, beating ariana (32M)
- all 16 tracks occupied the top 16 spots on the spotify U.S chart

folklore era PT. 2
- folklore on demand streams surpassed 72M in its first day, beating ariana (55.9M)
- sold 500K (400K + pure) in three days despite being a surprise release
- first album since lover to move 500K in a week
- debuted with 846K (615K pure despite pandemic)

folklore era PT. 3
- largest weekly debut in 2020 and largest since ‘lover’
- with only its first week pure sales, folklore became the top-selling album of 2020
- first female artist to have 7 albums debut at #1
- first act in to have 7 albums sell more than 500K in week

folklore era PT. 4
- cardigan debuted at #1 making swift the first artist ever to have a song and an album debut at #1 on the BB100 and BB200 simultaneously
- sold more than the next 50 albums on the BB200 combined
- biggest debut in BB alternative album chart