When Taylor Swift launched “Converse Now (Taylor’s Model)” this month, there was little question it might debut at No. 1. The one questions have been how forcefully it might smash data, what number of mountains of vinyl it might promote and the way far down the chart Swift’s catalog would push all people else.

“Converse Now (Taylor’s Model),” the third installment in Swift’s collection of rerecorded albums — this one recreating “Converse Now” from 2010, with a thick appendix of tracks revisited from the cutting-room flooring — is the 12 months’s largest new LP, notching the equal of 716,000 gross sales in the US. It simply topped Morgan Wallen’s “One Factor at a Time,” which opened with 501,000 in March.

However that isn’t all. It’s Swift’s twelfth No. 1 album, beating Barbra Streisand for essentially the most chart-toppers by a girl. Drake additionally has 12 No. 1 albums, however the one acts with extra are Jay-Z (14) and the Beatles (19).

The recognition of Swift’s Eras Tour has lifted her complete catalog, and this week, along with the brand new “Converse Now,” she has three different titles within the Prime 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart: “Midnights” (No. 5), “Lover” (No. 7) and “Folklore” (No. 10). Swift is the primary residing act to have 4 albums within the Prime 10 since Herb Alpert in 1966. (Prince had 5 after his dying in 2016, and for a few years Billboard barred older “catalog” albums from reappearing on its major chart — a rule that was modified after Michael Jackson’s dying, in 2009.)

Swift’s effort to remake her first six albums started after her outdated report label was bought with out her participation, as a method for Swift to reclaim and management her earlier work. However the undertaking has was its personal phenomenon, with followers utilizing the chance to revisit their very own relationship with the music, and critics scouring the brand new recordings for uncommon — however notable — edits, like a change to a lyric on the monitor “Higher Than Revenge” from “Converse Now” that had come to be seen as outdated or worse.

The brand new model of “Converse Now” had a much bigger opening than her two earlier rerecordings, “Purple” (605,000) and “Fearless” (291,000).

The 716,000 “equal” gross sales for the brand new “Converse Now” — a measurement by Billboard and the info service Luminate that reconciles the assorted methods followers devour music now — incorporates 269 million streams and 507,000 copies bought as an entire bundle. It additionally consists of 268,500 copies on vinyl, the second-biggest week for any vinyl album because the predecessors of Luminate started preserving dependable gross sales data in 1991 — the most important was Swift’s personal “Midnights,” which opened with 575,000 copies bought on LP again in October.

“Converse Now” continues an astonishingly productive run for Swift. It’s her sixth studio album in three years, and based on Billboard she is the one artist to notch new No. 1 albums in every of the final 5 calendar years: “Lover” (2019); “Folklore” and “Evermore” (2020); “Fearless (Taylor’s Model)” and “Purple (Taylor’s Model)” (2021); “Midnights” (2022); and now “Converse Now (Taylor’s Model).”

Additionally this week, Wallen’s “One Factor” holds at No. 2; Lil Uzi Vert’s “Pink Tape,” final week’s prime album, falls to No. 3; and Peso Pluma’s “Génesis” is No. 4.