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Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Smashes Records En Route to U.K. No. 1
"Tortured Poets" posts the biggest opening week numbers in seven years.
That’s the biggest opening week for any album in seven years – since Ed Sheeran’s 2017 hit ÷ (Divide), which locked up 670,000 first-week U.K. chart units. And it’s a greater first-week volume than Adele’s 2021 album 30, which accumulated 261,000 in its opening run, the Official Charts Company reports. In non-TayTay news, Pearl Jam snags a best U.K. chart performance in 11 years with Dark Matter(Monkeywrench Records/Republic Records), new at No.
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