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Singer Taylor Swift has damaged new floor. She is the primary feminine artist to have 4 albums on the Billboard 200 chart. As NPR’s Anastasia Tsioulcas experiences, this milestone comes as Swift has been deep in rerecording her early albums to maintain creative and monetary management over her work.

ANASTASIA TSIOULCAS, BYLINE: Taylor Swift launched the album “Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model)” earlier this month. It shortly soared to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the chart that tracks the most well-liked albums within the U.S.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “LONG LIVE (TAYLOR’S VERSION)”)

TAYLOR SWIFT: (Singing) Lengthy reside the partitions we crashed by means of. How the dominion lights shined…

TSIOULCAS: “Communicate Now” joins two different Taylor Swift rerecorded albums – “Midnights” and “Lover” – on that chart, alongside along with her 2020 album “Folklore.” Again in 2019, Swift mentioned she can be rerecording and rereleasing all six albums she’d first made for her earlier report label, Massive Machine. She introduced that call after Massive Machine bought her catalog to a different firm. Swift now financially and artistically controls these rerecorded albums, that are all being launched with the subtitle “Taylor’s Model.” That is the primary time in practically 60 years that any residing musical artist has managed this chart feat. Trumpeter Herb Alpert pulled it off in 1966. Prince had 5 albums within the prime 10 in 2016, however that was simply after his premature dying. Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR Information, New York.

(SOUNDBITE OF TAYLOR SWIFT SONG, “FEARLESS”)

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