The Swifties have been out in force in the weeks leading up to flipover Friday as Taylor Swift’s re-record of her second album, 2008’s Fearless, is dominating iTunes and Apple Music charts.
Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (Republic) is #1 at iTunes and #2 at Apple Music while “Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)” tops iTunes songs. The Taylor’s Versions of “That’s When” f/Keith Urban, “You All Over Me” f/Maren Morris, “Don’t You” and “We Were Happy” are in the Top 50 in sales.
Back at album sales, Capitol Nashville’s deluxe edition of Luke Bryan’s Born Here Live Here Die Here… opens at #2 followed by
MO3’s Shottz 4Eva (H$M/Empire) at #3 and Cheap Trick’s 20th studio album, In Another World (BMG), at #5.
Rhiannon Giddens’ collection of songs recorded with Francesco Turrisi in Ireland during the lockdown, They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch), hunkers down at #8. Riff Raff & Yelawolf’s Turqoise Tornado (Slumerican) is #9.
Brockhampton’s Roadrunner (Question Everything/RCA) sits just outside the Top 10 at iTunes and Apple Music.
At iTunes songs, Rag’n’Bone Man & P!nk’s “Anywhere Away From Here” (Columbia) is #8.
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